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Love it or hate it, we’re living in the Kardashian era of pop culture. A family of beautiful, business-savvy women — fronted by Kim and masterfully orchestrated by Kris Jenner — exploded onto the scene in 2007 and never left. What started with scandal evolved into an empire. There have been more spinoffs than Starbucks has drink modifications, and every sister has managed to turn beauty, branding, or both into a billion-dollar conversation. The shift: from shrinking ourselves

This wasn’t a tourist pub. This was the locals’ local. Farmers pulled up on tractors and occasionally slept in the cab by morning. Kids rode ponies into the village for crisps. Teenagers bought cigarettes for their parents without question — unless their mam didn’t smoke, in which case the barkeep would bellow across the room: “Jaysus Albert, git outta here before I call your mam!” It was rural Ireland in its purest form.

The Monica Lewinsky story is one of those cultural moments where, looking back, you almost can’t believe  everyone collectively lost their minds  in the same direction. In the mid-1990s, Monica Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern. Bill Clinton was 49, President of the United States, leader of the free world, and apparently incapable of not making catastrophic personal decisions. They had a consensual affair that lasted about a year. In my Monica blue power shirt.