Nearly all of our world has been mapped by Google and although that includes North Korea this still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the most steadfastly secretive country on Earth.   Sean Sheehan   What we think we know about the place seems to be […]

The gap between ethics and politics has never seemed to yawn wider. The response of the laughingly called “international community” to Gaza has exposed truths and the need for a politics of Truth.   Sean Sheehan   Such a need confronted Lenin when the leading socialist party in Germany transformed […]

Immersing the mind of a viewer in a virtual reality can be witnessed in the zombie-like deportment of people of all ages glued to phone or tablet screens, part of a craving for immediacy that is now seemingly embedded in Western culture.   Sean Sheehan   It is an aspect […]

Finding a writer worth reading can be like searching for a good movie on Netflix – they do exist but first you have to scroll through pages of dross, wasting time only to realise that most are rubbish. Not all book publishers are in the same bracket and Daunt Books […]

People need a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves but there is also a contrary impulse to not belong, to remain outside the group, and this dichotomy is what intrigues Mary Jacobus in her new book “On belonging and not belonging”.   Sean Sheehan   The children of […]