Sport in the Neoliberal Zeitgeist

Despite all the controversies in the run-up, and as with the last World Cup in Russia, most people are now looking beyond the politics, and enjoying the feast of football. For many of those attending sporting fixtures, this is akin to performing a religious duty in a secular age. The rest of us generally slouch … Read more

On the Nature of Evil

I met Vladimir Putin once.  Or, at least, I was in the same room as him, no more than thirty or forty  feet away, for several hours. Not much further than Macron recently in Moscow. In August and September 2000, the last time Ireland was lobbying for a seat at the UN Security Council, I … Read more