Diary of a Dissenter: The Week From My Window

I feel that this phase of my life is coming to an end — the Substack phase, I mean. There is still some place for the kind of record I have been keeping here, but it seems less urgent now than it did.

Middle Ireland has arrived at the scene of the crime

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SATURDAY I

I am profoundly moved and flattered by the shout-out I recei…