Storytelling The journalist and writer George Monbiot has pointed out that political failure is at heart a failure of imagination, and to trigger imagination we need narrative. Broad political movements all have their own narrative. Those narratives have a villain or villains who is the cause of the bad and disorder in the world and…
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Geopolitics – An introduction Countries fight. Many of these wars and disputes lead to countries collapsing and other countries being born. Sometimes the people in or outside these new countries do not like where the borders were drawn which leads to more conflict, which leads to more countries falling and others being born, and the…
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Following on from my interview with Michael Healy-Rae, I interviewed Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly. We had a good conversation about the HSE, what Sinn Féin stands for, climate policy, along with other interesting topics. You can watch the interview here: Up next: An interview with Brendan Griffin (Fine Gael)
Our world and our lives are shaped by the events that unfold around us. As I speak, we are living through the Covid-19 pandemic. This has changed the way we view ourselves and our actions, as well as the way we view the actions of those around us. It is an event that we will…
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