Applying Hitchens’s Razor: Jim Sheridan and Ian Bailey

Jim Sheridan is a significant figure in the international film industry because of his creativity and talent. He has made an influential documentary, ‘Murder at the Cottage’, about the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case. In the recent Cassandra Voices Podcast, he explained why he believed Ian Bailey is innocent and much maligned. In a recent … Read more

‘Devil in the Hills’: Jim Sheridan on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier Murder

Listen to the second half of this podcast on Patreon. Jim Sheridan condemns the Irish government for handing over the file on the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case to the French authorities, wondering whether we are ‘still an independent country.’ He argues that this should never have been done ‘over the head of the Director … Read more

Musician of the Month: Ian Fisher

Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of the corona virus, I got a message from my old friend, Stefano Schiavocampo.  He told me that he was editing for a magazine in Dublin and he’d like me to contribute. “Me?” I thought, “What would anyone need to hear … Read more