Sally Rooney, in the Irish Times:

Perhaps the best-case scenario is that the children of today, and their children, will look back on us in horror, wondering how so many of us – including myself – could have been so quiescent, disorganised and cowardly when we knew that their lives were at stake. Another equally plausible scenario, of course, is that there will not be very many of them left, and they will not have the leisure to look back on us at all.