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June 2025

Diary of a Dissenter: The Week Through My Window
Big errors are more likely to come to notice. The small ones lie there, leaching out their minor untruths, which in time run into other minor untruths…
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Through the Looking Glass, 7
The individuality of the tradesman is expressed in his engagement in a world shared with similarly engaged beings. . . This says [Matthew] Crawford, is…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
The Dalkey Book Festival has turned into a showcase of books as diversion, books as entertainment, books as fake and misleading emblems of an…
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Covid: the real and abiding symptoms
Covid has delivered us into conditions whereby the presumption of arbitrariness on behalf of ‘authority’ has become the default response to reality of…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
What is a ‘contrarian’? Contrary to what? To the official diktats? To conventional wisdom? To the mob? These impulses, through all my time in media, had…
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The Scholar Gypsies: On the Traitor ‘Taoiseach’
Gerry and I discuss the latest assaults on our country and its people from, inter alia, the individual with the temerity to continue leading its…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
My father’s people have been Mau-Maus for hundreds of years. No one else has rights to claim the fruits of their toil and suffering, or the windy tracks…
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On Legalise Freedom, with Greg Moffitt
‘Those of us who have children, grandchildren . . . how can we lie on our deathbeds and think that we left this mess behind?’
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May 2025

Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
Living in a country with an atrophied conversation is like being incarcerated in a house with only one small window, facing north, outside of which a…
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Ireland: Birthplace of the Totalitarian, Part II
In a certain sense, it's possible to see here a stream of continuity — not of events, direct meanings or cultural logic, but in the form of an…
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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window
'Militaries have protocols. Corporations have risk plans. Engineers have redundancies. But where was the plan for us—for memory, meaning, culture…
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