Monthly Archives: June 2018

We have precious things. Whom do we show as we bring them to the light? – not the powers. We shield them from the powers. The powers have little to do with the beautiful or loved. . Such things are … Continue reading →

“Tragedy is underdeveloped comedy, not fully born” says the poet Patrick Kavanagh. Yes. Yet in the best comedies, tragedy can remain as tragedy as we laugh through the tears. . Some tragedy is too dark for the rational to bear … Continue reading →

I think that anxiety for the loss of environmental and human rights protections embodied in European law has provoked a loss of wider perspective in recent Green Party policy. Polemical reactions by Green party leaders to the follies of the … Continue reading →