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Leon Siminiani, playing with stillness

An unusual plague a plague of stillness descends on a city, and begins to spread through the modern world. How can a maker of moving images hope to grapple with something that negates his art? His film is lost unfinished, but 50 years later a researcher finds what remains, and discovers a commentary on Colombia and much else.

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Religion’s malevolence

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that currently heads the coalition Assembly in Northern Ireland was formed by Ian Paisley, a Protestant evangelical minister.   Sean Sheehan   Although he honed a brand of hate speech directed at Catholics (‘they breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin’) and the papacy (‘I […]