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Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch Challenges Gangsters Inc.

At their inauguration, public leaders must swear to uphold unwritten law and weep to atone for their presumption to hold office – Seamus Heaney, ‘From the Republic of Conscience’ With a Dublin Central by-election on the horizon, Irish politics appears to be descending into GUBU. The ‘grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented’ prospect of alleged crime … Read more

In God We Trust Inc.

Ryszard Kapuściński in Imperium (1993) warned of three plagues, or contagions threatening the world: nationalism, racism and fundamentalism. He further identified one shared trait or a common denominator in ‘an aggressive all powerful total irrationality,’ arguing that ‘[a]nyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits … Read more