“[LA Mayor] Karen Bass, the Nero of American politics, was fiddling in Ghana while the city burned,” Maher said, dismissing Bass’ passing the blame to 14-year-lows in rainfalls and high ...

Colin Barrett has won the Nero Book Awards debut fiction prize for his first novel, Wild Houses, about a small-town drugs feud, a kidnapping and a life-altering weekend in Co Mayo, where he grew up.