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Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and the responsibility of artists during a genocide

“Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft.” By Kate Marie These were the words of Benjamin Netanyahu as he presented Kraft, the Zionist multibillionaire owner of the New England Patriots, with the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem in 2019.

Sep 17, 2026

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Review: West End Girl by Lily Allen

Reviewed by Aislinn O Keeffe West End Girl, the new album by Lily Allen, and her first in seven years, was released on 24 October, setting the internet astir. Voluminous online and media discourse has led to the unusual situation whereby streaming

Nov 11, 2025

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Review: One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Reviewed by Jonathan Diebold On 25 September, an icon of the leftwing radicalism which shook America in the 1960s and 1970s passed away. Assata Shakur, a revolutionary, ex-Black Panther and leading member of the Black Liberation Army, died at the age of

Nov 5, 2025

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Review: Carving The Stone by For Those I Love

By Kate Quinlan For Those I Love, the musical project of Dublin musician and spoken word artist David Balfe’s August release Carving the Stone is a fierce and unflinching album that cements Balfe as a socialist cultural poet, giving voice to a

Sep 15, 2025

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture

“Jealousy” and “begrudgery” – the last refuge of the Irish influencer

By Kate Quinlan The backlash against Irish influencers attending Electric Picnic on Coca Cola’s dime has exposed something uncomfortable: the fragility of performative politics in the influencer economy. For months, many of these same figures shared graphics and hashtags in support of

Sep 9, 2025

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Review: Euro-Country by CMAT – a pop anthem of political manipulation and collective memory

By Carla Grainger In her latest release, ‘Euro-Country’, Meath-born singer-songwriter CMAT has delivered not just a pop song, but a fierce act of cultural resistance. Beneath its shimmering hooks lies a searing indictment of capitalism’s false promises and Ireland’s recurring betrayal of

Jul 31, 2025

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Why does my guilty pleasure feel like a case study in coercive control? – love as labour on ‘Love Island’

By Kate Quinlan and Carla Grainger We used to call Love Island our guilty pleasure. Now the guilt is doing most of the heavy lifting. What once felt like lightweight reality drama has started to look a lot more like televised coercion.

Jul 30, 2025

Reviews and Culture·Theory & History

Frantz Fanon at 100: Review of ‘A Dying Colonialism’

By Manus Lenihan Today marks one hundred years since the birth of Frantz Fanon. A psychiatrist by profession, Fanon as a writer explored the morbid delusions and hallucinations of racism, empire and capitalism in celebrated works such as Black Skin, White Masks

Jul 20, 2025

News & Analysis·Reviews and Culture·Socialist Feminism

Review: Kate Nash calls out TERF ideology in blistering new single

By Kate Quinlan In her new single GERM, British singer-songwriter Kate Nash doesn’t just join the cultural conversation around trans rights in the UK, she detonates a bomb under the table where the so-called “debate” is being held. With lyrics that are

Jun 10, 2025

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Review: Fragments of Victory edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy

Fragments of Victory – The Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy, Pluto, 2025 (above pic credit: Connolly Books) Reviewed by Michael O’Brien This collection of essays by various authors spans the economic crisis that began in 2008, the

May 26, 2025

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Review: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Intermezzo by Sally RooneyFaber, 2024 Reviewed by Harper Cleves Last September, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Sally Rooney stood before an audience of dedicated readers, about to be interviewed about her latest novel, Intermezzo, which was due out later that

May 7, 2025

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