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In a sensation-hungry media, exposing The Last Taboo is something of a recurrent theme. Indeed, the evident fallacy in repeatedly identifying “last” taboos does not seemingly stop journalists and subeditors reaching…
There’s a fascinating and – to use an overused phrase – thought-provoking piece in the LRB by David Bromwich about free speech. The early sections deal with the Rushdie affair…
Well, not quite fifty – but there is a range of methods seen in these YouTube videos on the apparently simple project of how to build a hedgehog house. Sometimes one…
Yes, I can appreciate the irony of sharing this YouTube video on WordPress.
I read quite a lot of Neil Postman about a decade ago. Always a readable and provocative voice, I must admit I take him rather less seriously since reading more…
Séamus Sweeney 