“A service to ego”
Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
‘They have been lied to’
The game has improved by leaps and bounds since it’s launch, and you’re missing out if you’re still holding off playing it.
Both Thrones and Dragon are ultimately about something interesting and enduring: The corrupting influence of absolute power.
A new, dystopian order.
The car has left the highway. We are close to our house. Using our mobile phone, we send a message; the porch and entrance lights come on and the heating starts up so that when we arrive the temperature is adequate, which the device itself has learned is the one we prefer. The house is […]
In her book Primal Screams, American writer and widely respected culture critic, Mary Eberstadt, traces a direct line from the sexual revolution of the 60s to the febrile identity politics of our time. The title references the trauma of animals taken from their natural habitat and familial unit and the longterm, emotional damage caused by […]
It might have been the weight of expectation that a heavy-hitter like Piers Morgan was going to tackle the cancel culture and shrieking social media narration that has enveloped society which has left me feeling more than a little disappointed. I am not necessarily a Piers Morgan fan but I don’t find him objectionable […]
It is not surprising that cultural and political theorists like influential Slovenian philosopher, Salvoj Žizek, are already mapping out the societal changes they believe, or hope, will follow the socio-economic devastation of successive lockdowns. It is clear that governments all over the world have bought time at a cost unprecedented in peacetime. There will be […]
Escaping the Bunker: Democracy Needs Christianity By Mark Hamilton. So What Imprint, Dublin, 2021. The world before Christ was a savage place. Ancient civilisations were cruel and unforgiving. In this world, despite the benign and wise voices of people like Akhenaten, Zoroaster, Socrates, Cicero and others, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome placed very little value […]
It never ceases to amaze me that despite all the wealth, experience and tradition of American cinema, it seldom matches the depth and humanity of the best Iranian films. Asghar Farhadi’s family drama A Separation, for instance, won an Oscar in 2012. I can’t think of many films which combine so successfully deep moral issues, intricate […]