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‘Our culture is completely comatose because it’s corrupting. . . '
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'Ireland . . . I have this terrible feeling that sometime after I’m gone you will swing into your usual rearguard action, so posthumously, in advance…
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Through the Looking Glass IV:
‘I always put Trump together with the Deplorables, and Vance is right there in the middle of that mix. These are the salt-of-the-earth Americans, the…
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February 2025

Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'As you'll see, Freddie [Mercury] actually cried out to Jesus Christ for redemption. But no one heard him, and it killed him.' — Mischa Popoff
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That Dylan movie: ‘A Complete Unknown’
The movie, as its spine, fires off the rather banal idea of Dylan taking New York by storm with his intriguing (though now dated, the subtext cannot…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world’ — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Interview: Dr Paul Cullen, on the state of things in Europe and America
‘We can’t compare Trump against perfection. We have to compare him against the alternative.' — Dr Paul Cullen
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Through the Looking Glass III: The ‘AI’ already inside
'He says: if you win the lottery you’re going to be happy. So there’s a correlation between the winning of the lottery and the feeling. Here’s the…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'If Gaudí’s Sagrada Família is for some reason finished before Judgement Day then somewhere someone will have to start all over again.' — Jigs van…
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Deus in machina? (God into the machine?)
Even before we arrive to the marriage of man and machines it is clear that ’artificial intelligence’ means the divorce of intelligence from life.
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
Louis says, as though to no one in particular, ‘We’re doing ok. We’re doing ok so far!’ He pauses a beat, then, staring upwards, adds: ‘I’m trying to be…
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Through the Looking Glass II
'There may actually be a degree of panic in these quarters about what they've done to our country.'
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