‘Juxtaposition’ is one of those words it is easy to hate. When you juxtapose, you achieve a contrast by placing two things near each other. Often you’ll juxtapose to have some effect, so there’s a third layer to its use: the reader learns about your values, or your editorial priorities, or sometimes your political view. This is especially good if you can’t say any of those things directly. Sometimes a juxtaposition is random, but for that, all the more telling. Consider a recent front page of the Irish Times. Two headlines juxtaposed modern Ireland exactly. The first was ‘Ireland has…

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