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Why are we doing a two-minute silence for VE Day?
We won, for God's sake!
May 6
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Peter McLaughlin
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Why are we doing a two-minute silence for VE Day?
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April 2025
Are the Arba'in pilgrimage numbers Iranian propaganda?
On the 'largest peaceful gatherings' and the difficulty of estimating
Apr 25
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Peter McLaughlin
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Are the Arba'in pilgrimage numbers Iranian propaganda?
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What and why is Easter?
The primary Christian feast day is evidence of the apocalypse cult that still lies buried beneath the edifice of modern Christianity, which peeks out…
Apr 21
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Peter McLaughlin
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March 2025
'Banning it less hard': non-fatal strangulation
Despite much fanfare, the new non-fatal strangulation law in England and Wales treats the offence less seriously than previously, not more seriously…
Mar 13
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Peter McLaughlin
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'Banning it less hard': non-fatal strangulation
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Reason and the passions in Heloise and Abelard
In the lovers' letters, we see hormonal imperatives clashing with moral imperatives—and find ourselves realising that we should sometimes accord more…
Mar 11
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Peter McLaughlin
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February 2025
Collected facts about Stephen MacKenna
I am increasingly of the opinion that the Gaelic Revival had two peaks, producing two bodies of work that deserve immortality: the poetry of W. B…
Feb 19
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Peter McLaughlin
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Nine interpretations of the Parmenides
An overview of the background assumptions different scholars make when writing about Plato's hardest dialogue.
Feb 8
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Peter McLaughlin
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January 2025
On looking into Kavanagh's Homer
A suggestion about the sources for Patrick Kavanagh's sonnet 'Epic'.
Jan 15
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Peter McLaughlin
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There is Cold War liberalism between the snow and the huge roses.
Louis MacNeice's masterpiece 'Snow' must be interpreted first in an incredibly literal-minded manner; only when we get past our assumptions can we see…
Jan 7
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Peter McLaughlin
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There is Cold War liberalism between the snow and the huge roses.
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December 2024
This year's books
Short reviews of the 63 books I read in 2024
Dec 26, 2024
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Peter McLaughlin
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July 2024
Nostalgia for the Moon Under Water
Orwell's essay was not a general celebration of British pub culture: it was a piece of wartime longing for a pre-war Britain that never came back.
Jul 25, 2024
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Peter McLaughlin
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June 2024
Awake (not Byron—he is awake!)
Rethinking my instinctual cynicism about Lord Byron's Greek exploits.
Jun 12, 2024
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Peter McLaughlin
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