I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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Reflections on media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Can Starmer take patriotism from the Tories and give it real social content?
Is the ‘careful’ leadership of Sir Keir Starmer going to destroy Labour?
The end of containment, the expansion of NATO and the new threat
The territory from the Jordan to the sea is already a single binational state.
The West has no reason whatever to be surprised by Putin’s invasion
Derry’s Bloody Sunday and the long fight for justice and accountability
A personal history of the new Irish feminism of the 1970s
Opinion: The faulty thinking of the boycott and divestment campaign
Lara Marlowe’s memoir of her years with Robert Fisk in love and war