No one cares about Sally Rooney's political pronouncements enough that you'd look weak if you didn't respond. (You always look weak, you hate it and that's why you responded). Once again Mister Human Rights And The Law of Nations has not just stepped on a rake but buggered himself with it at tea.
The reason it doesn't do any good, to close the earlier thought, is that Ireland isn't going to do anything about Sally Rooney donating her royalties or anything else, she is fully beyond your ordinary jurisdiction, and most of all, the extradition you threaten with a big hullabaloo you don't get.
States never get this and especially the press never gets this... if your extradition gets dragged out by your public attention and tantrums, you don't get it. It is inevitable--he best thing the requesting state can ever do is just don't make it a big deal. Public threats!?
If you've made Sally Rooney _persona non grata_ in the United Kingdom with this threat, and I imagine you have, you have clowned yourself utterly, particularly since authors so rarely go away. They might not be singers, but you've kicked off a confrontation you can't come out on top of. Why?
Well, it started with Kneecap, talk about taking your foot and loading it into the biggest blunderbuss you can find and then crying when the whole thing blows up. Brit politicians are never not at it.
The whole thing has been a litany of unforced error. The suppression is easier to protest than Palestine, for many liberals it's even more offensive, you have brought a massive number of people into contact with PA's actions and their arguments and gained nothing, not one thing
They know they will never convict anyone for anything too, Starmer knows for certain, he's fought governments, he knows they can't win any of it
Difficult to know what he thinks it achieves, he started with trying to ban Kneecap, the man is as right wing as they come.
It is not as if Kneecap don't invite the hostility mind you. They're loving it I'm sure.
"You See, Mr prime minister, in the music industry when parties are issuing banning orders against each other it is called "beef" and it drives public interest in the product and often provides material to discuss in lyrical form."
It all art