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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
‘[Johnny Duhan] could bring the intelligence and intensity of real rock ’n’ roll values to questions of faith and transcendence, with which they…
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Interview: Dr Paul Cullen
‘If you go to see a doctor now, there’s an ambivalence, which you’re expressing, which is a justified ambivalence, because you don’t know actually what…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'[T]he reactionary, like a chicken incapable of learning to swim, may be unable to become convinced of the truth of dialectics and the interdependence…
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Rereading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four’ post 1984
Minogue says that 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' ‘presents us with a reductio ad absurdum of totalitarianism.’ I’m not sure how one could write such a sentence…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'[Trump's] role is to act as the last expression of Western vitality . . . to embody the final brave spirit of a people grasping for survival in a world…
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October 2024

In Conversation with Luke Eastwood
'Con Houlihan was a big mountainy man from Kerry. He was brilliant, a genius. But he wasn’t "educated" (as a journalist) in the formal sense; he was…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'If I could have it back/All the time that we wasted/I’d only waste it again/If I could have it back/You know I would love to waste it again/Waste it…
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Unravelling Reality (with Richard Vobes)
‘I find this more and more — that I'm a victim of things and a critic of them at the same time. It’s like a form of inevitable and necessary hypocrisy…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
Like many things that are excitingly novel and useful, AI has many downsides, and it is far from hypocritical to be both fascinated by the new…
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A Meditation on Michel Houellebecq and His Purportedly Terminal Novel
‘I don't believe for a half-second... that “nothing will be like it was before”. We will not wake up after the lockdown in a new world. It will be the…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'[W]e need to return to the underlying question of why our government now responds to the beck and call of giggly girls and what we can do about it.' …
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The Voice of the Dead Unburied: An Interview with John O'Looney
‘Sometimes I’ve sat there and I’ve thought, "Have I just prolonged everyone’s suffering?” — ‘cos these people seem hell-bent on killing us off. But I…
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