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Long Black Cloud

Michael Praetorius 🎸Today I met the pound shop version of Opera Guy. He set up his giant boombox, with loud and full orchestral backing tapes. About 10 metres away. Straight into Nessun Dorma. And, true enough, no-one could have slept through that din.Didn't you see me . . .  ? I asked him when he'd quit the histrionics.  I was here last week, he said.  To argue or not to argue. I've been coming

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Ninety One

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be CuriousTrump's GOP is now a nakedly ‘authoritarian party’ that embraces ‘violence and lawlessness’: journalist‘Funerals are getting fancier — they’re like

Celebrating Dissent 2022

Maryam Namazie ✒ #CelebratingDissent2022 will be held in Cologne, Germany during 21-22 August 2022 with over 50 speakers from 30 countries in the largest gathering of #exMuslims, #atheists and #freethinkers since lockdown. It follows from the highly successful Celebrating Dissent Festival in Amsterdam in 2019 and the Freedom of Conscience and Expression conference in London in 2017.The two-day

Homo Mortalis: Meditations On Memento Mori

Christopher Owens 🔖 "The world is a graveyard. Let’s explore how”.An intriguing premise for a collection of poetry, suggesting either a mischievous romp or a solemn declaration. One can’t help but read on. With the intention to write honestly, whatever tone that may take, Sebastian Vice is aware this isn’t a prevailingly popular outlook, noting that:There’s a hunger, a deep hunger, for dark,

A Morning Thought @ 1406

Impossible Conversations — Valerie Tarico with Seth Andrews and Hector Garcia On The Thinking Atheist

Valerie Tarico ✒ The Thinking Atheist — Impossible(?) Conversations: The Best and Worst of “Woke Culture”.Psychologists Dr. Hector Garcia and Dr. Valerie Tarico join Seth Andrews for a complex, nuanced, and thoughtful conversation about the dying of discourse in a hyper-divided world.When should we speak, and when should we shout? Are we picking the right battles? When should we declare war on

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Hundred And Ninety

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Let Us At Least Be Curious'I feel like Bill Murray': Zelenskyy is frustrated with Western leaders constantly asking for his Ukraine weaponry wishlist'Takes one to know one': Noam

Loyalist Murders, NIO Diplomacy, RUC Actions ✑ February 1974 Revisited

Brandon Sullivan ✒ I recently chanced upon a series of films on YouTube – Firing Line, with right-wing intellectual William Buckley interviewing a series of political leaders from Northern Ireland.A 22 year old Bernadette Devlin dealt masterfully with Buckley, who later on in the interview was flanked by some Tories straight out of central casting. John Hume was asked questions by Nell

Loyalist Murders, NIO Diplomacy, RUC Actions ✑ February 1974 Revisited

Brandon Sullivan ✒ I recently chanced upon a series of films on YouTube – Firing Line, with right-wing intellectual William Buckley interviewing a series of political leaders from Northern Ireland.A 22 year old Bernadette Devlin dealt masterfully with Buckley, who later on in the interview was flanked by some Tories straight out of central casting. John Hume was asked questions by Nell

A Morning Thought @ 1405