Have you caught our interview with Musician of the Month John Cummins yet?
This one is on the house...
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Drawing on his experience of living in China, Luke Sheehan (CassandraVoices) discusses the origins of COVID-19 Matt Ridley, author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. cassandravoices.com/science-enviro…
Matt Ridley
#lableak #covidorigins #COVIDー19

Drawing on his experience of living in China, Luke Sheehan discusses the origins of COVID-19 with Matt Ridley, author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19.
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Matt Ridley
#lableak #covidorigins #COVIDー19

A powerful piece sent to me by a septuagenarian Westmeath artist!

'The peremptory watchword 'believe in God' has been superseded by “trust the science”. Its dogmatic purpose is no different and it was used to effect during the pandemic as a marketing slogan for social compliance and pharmaceutical profit.'
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In a recent podcast interview with Frank Armstrong Jim Sheridan discussed the Ian Bailey he knew, and explained why he was the perfect fall guy for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
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#jimsheridan #ianbailey #westcork
ellen Laura Lynott

In advance of general publication we are delighted to share our next podcast. An interview with musician of the month John Cummins of Dublin band Shakalak.
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In advance of general publication we are delighted to share our next podcast. An interview with musician of the month John Cummins of Dublin band Shakalak.
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My latest article, published by CassandraVoices on Fear, Class and Universal Basic Income. cassandravoices.com/society/fear-c…

Ben Pantrey argues UBI should be a no-strings-attached gift given in good faith to everybody, not a conditional grant for a cohort of well-respected creatives.
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Ben Pantrey danieleidiniphoto Des Traynor
#universalbasicincome #ubi

Rory Cormac you'll enjoy the talk of spies in the Middle East here

Good to see this story in The Ditch
We previously published a detailed account by the whistleblower Matthew Butterly:
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Disappointing there is no link in this article to it.

'In iron, imps immersed incur ill eye,
manacled to mortal machinations,
while led by living lights, our lost lives lie
sunk ‘neath stars of shoreless sublimation'
from a new poem ‘Faerie Fire’ by Rye Jaffe
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#poem s #faeries #fairies #poem

A helpful graphic from Cillian Doyle's article The Politics of the Last Announcement demonstrating how the spending announcements of #SimonHarris (and Tanaiste Martin) as Minister for Higher Education did not reflect his low spending Department. #spin
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Cillian Doyle forensically examines the“fiscal gimmickry” at work outside budget time, specifically when Ministers make nominally ‘new’ funding announcements, zooming in on new Taoiseach #SimonHarris ' record.
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Cillian Doyle

Thanks to Frank Armstrong CassandraVoices for using this extended essay. At least one Dublin editor thinks ‘it’s an excellent piece of writing.’ Martin Doyle Mark O’Connell

Desmond Traynor revisits the legendary Joujouka music festival in Morocco to consider cultural appropriation, kif, intimate relations and music's ineffable quality.
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Des Traynor The Stinging Fly Tolka The Dublin Review
#Morocco