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Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window

‘Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy’. — Brian Eno, ‘Oblique Strategies’

Oct 10, 2025
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Alan Smpson (second from right), being led by three hatted detectives from the Pike Theatre, Dublin 1957, to face accusations of staging a ‘lewd performance’

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