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by Benito Vila Darwin’s no optimist.He sees every species tossedto specific failure, each one destinedto vanish, by way of its imperfections,true to every past, to every future….
by David Betteridge … I will do such things – What they are yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth! –…
by Kevin Patrick McCann Raise a flag, found a countryOn someone else’s land,Wait a while, then expand:Pick a village, attack at dawn,Spare no-one, make no secretOf what…
by Rita di Santo The highly anticipated debut of Laura Carreira’s “On Falling,” winner of the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 2024 BFI London…
Violet White argues that all who are engaged in the struggle for a just society – whether of faith or of no faith – stand on the…
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather…
by Alan McGuire In our consumerist societies, where individualism is pushed in our faces by influencers everyday, and our communities feel increasingly more superficial and fraying, ancient…
By Dennis Broe As Trump and Musk unleash a new kind of barbarism and open class war on American workers based around the cuts to domestic spending…