Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

Travels in Apartheid Ireland, Part I.

‘You know yourself.’

SATURDAY

First Things have asked me to write something about next year’s series of residencies by ‘ABBA’ in London, in which the band members appear in the form of avatars of themselves, which is to say they do not appear at all. Needless to say, the journaliars are calling them ABBAtars. At first thought I wasn’t so keen. Like most r…