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Joel Keys is a Belfast Loyalist activist and prolific tweeter. ***** I discovered a big discrepancy. Well, I didnt so much discover it as notice it. And it isn't really isn't a big discrepancy, it is

Marc Coleman is a business consultant, former broadcaster and journalist. He is currently working on a book on the persistence of western democracy. ***** Magical thinking is a great phrase that I l

Jessica Berlin is a commentator at Deutsche Welle News, and she has worked for 15 years working with in security policy, transatlantic affairs, sustainable business and technology, and aid industry re

Professor Julian Nida-Rmelin is is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was the State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany u

Professor Julian Nida-Rümelin is is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was the State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany u

Sen Keyes is the finance correspondent for the Currency, a subscription news website. ***** I spoke to a Sinn Fin supporter in the years after the Good Friday Belfast agreement, I think it was durin

Ellie O'Byrne is co-editor of Tripe and Drisheen, a Cork-based local news substack, and we discussed a recent article of hers. ***** In talking to Ellie, I mentioned a tweet from Cllr Fiona Ryan of Pe

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Frank Armstrong is the editor of the magazine called Cassandra Voices. ***** I got a lot of the ideas for this discussion from an article by Yuriy Gorodnichenko on Berkeley Blog.