Anatomy of Disgust – Northern Irish Style
This piece is not intended to provoke. It is more a look at the way people’s minds are shaped, how…
Lockdowns: “Thinking in One Dimension”. Podcast Interview with Professor Sunetra Gupta.
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A Whistleblower’s Motive
In a seminal scene at the end of the film Joker (2019) the eponymous character, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is…
Shane MacGowan’s Madonna
So, it’s Thursday night in Dublin, I’ve found some Poitin, and am thinking of Shane MacGowan. How very sad it…
Musician of the Month: Squalloscope (Anna Kohlweis)
There is a poem by Mary Ruefle called „Provenance“. It ends with with the following words: „So I have gone…
Poem: St. Patrick’s Day 2024
St. Patrick’s Day 2024 My dream takes me to the White House where Kelly green fountain streams spit red globules,…
Ivor Browne R.I.P
It’s hard for those of us who work in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy to put into words how much…
My Team / Your Team
In the first part of his essay concerning his enduring lifelong fandom of Manchester City FC, and the club’s current…
Facilitating the Dirty Business of the State
Both as a lawyer and Supreme Court judge, Louis Brandeis was an inveterate opponent of big business interests. Less well…