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Colm Tóibín

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1118 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And he looked at me and I looked at him and said, oh,

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

meaning that that's where ICE goes.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

ICE goes to the hardware stores.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

ICE goes, because that's where a lot of the illegal people who are doing that sort of work that's really necessary in Los Angeles, that's where they go in the morning to collect the materials for the day.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And they're like sitting ducks there.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

Their trucks are outside and they can be got.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And they know that and they don't do it.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

So you're living casually within a world.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And the problem is, of course, if that man were to be taken,

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

He could be held for months on end without anyone knowing where he was in one of the most horrible conditions.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

In other words, he would be held effectively without habeas corpus.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

He would be disappeared and he would be held in a concentration camp.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And that's actually what's happening, except that everyone is bothered about something else.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

So when the Epstein things happen, people then start worrying about a war.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

And then Trump decides he wants to buy Greenland.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

He wants to buy Greenland.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

I mean, just the comedy of that until you realize, of course, that it's taking up 24-hour news cycles, his efforts to buy Greenland.

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

What's the Danes doing?

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

What's NATO?

The Book Show
Colm Tóibín can't stop naming his characters Paul

Trump wants to buy Greenland.