Shouldn't cavalier abuse of 'AI' tools inspire some sort of revulsion and punishment? A clash of values is playing out, where genuine intelligence, human experience, artisanship and hard work is set against hollow facsimile and outright charlatanry. What do we want to win?
Category: Irish politics
Loyalism’s Napoleon
Finally, a profile of a man who once said he'd "rather choke on [his] own blood in NI than live on streets paved with gold in a United Ireland". Unfortunately, it does little to interrogate his corrosive influence or why he enjoys such access to power.
Eamonn McCann at a picket line in Ballymena & 21st century Popish Plots
Eamonn McCann and John Hume "wrecked this country", while imagined green conspiracies are afoot.
Scary accents, outsiders & why you should watch The Bear
How the northern accent is scary to the people in the south of Ireland and why you should waste no time and start watching The Bear
Ireland, World Cup opener & seven million people
Brief reflections on Ireland's opening game at the 2023 Women's World Cup and the casual partitionism of southern society
Bringing back the unionist veto?
In a 1989 essay in the London Review of Books, John Hume wrote that, “the fundamental change that has taken place as a result of the Anglo-Irish Agreement is a change that is deeply and fully understood by every Unionist. What it means is that their exclusive hold on power has gone and is not coming back."
