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    Free Speech – That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must create laws to make them hear us

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    Years and Years, and Yet so Far to Go

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    Why France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters are so angry

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    Paramilitaries still cast shadows over lives of young people in Northern Ireland

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Free Speech – That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must create laws to make them hear us

21/02/2021 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 0 Comment

One of the common dominators of cults is a focus on restricting members’ access…

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Years and Years, and Yet so Far to Go

01/07/2019 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, my father suggested that I watch a new and exciting…

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Why France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters are so angry

05/12/2018 - The Conversation - 0 Comment

France’s “gilets jaunes” protests of December 1 were marked not only by their anger…

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Paramilitaries still cast shadows over lives of young people in Northern Ireland

14/11/2018 - The Conversation - 0 Comment

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the…

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Imagining Poppies

11/11/2018 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 0 Comment

Poppies on cakes, poppies on buses, poppies on hawks, and even Liz Trusses. Every…

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Repeal! Ireland Abortion referendum

30/05/2018 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 0 Comment

Thirty-five years after it was placed into the Irish Constitution, the electorate voted for…

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Trump isn’t Fascist, He’s a Massive Liberal Dump

03/02/2017 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 0 Comment

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from…

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“My war, my kills and my kids”: American Sniper and the glorification of military violence

01/02/2017 - Julien Pomarède - 0 Comment

Chris Kyle is to date the US military’s most prolific sniper who wrote bestselling…

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Revolt on the air – Radio Activism, Protest and French Politics

28/12/2016 - Sebastien Poulain - 0 Comment

Radio is an old medium that seems to struggle to renew itself. With the…

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“Decent housing for all!” The UK Squatters Movement 1968-1980

19/12/2016 - Kesia Reeve - 1 Comment

On 1st December 1968 a small group of homeless people and libertarian anarchists calling…

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1978. Punk is Dead. Where have you Been?

07/08/2016 - Mortimer Harries-Pugh - 0 Comment

Punk was inextricably linked to Britain’s social, political and economic environment during the 1970s….

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Same Old New Labour

30/06/2016 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 2 Comments

Jeremy Corbyn was intended to be a clever political tool and marketing ploy. Smarting…

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Brexit and the Partition of the Nonsensical

25/06/2016 - Ronan O'Callaghan - 0 Comment

Let there be no mistake – Brexit, at its core, was a vote against…

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The Möbius strip of national and world security

21/06/2016 - Didier Bigo - 0 Comment

The apparently boundless scope of mass surveillance revealed by Snowden beggared the imagination. Not…

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Incitement to terrorism and the regulation of free speech

12/06/2016 - Stef Wittendorp - 0 Comment

Current negotiations on an European Union (EU) Directive defining terrorism intends to accord a…

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Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox

04/06/2016 - Félix Treguer - 1 Comment

On June the 5th, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist…

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Denaturalisation, ‘Terrorism’ and National Identity in France

22/04/2016 - Marie Beauchamps - 1 Comment

Hannah Arendt once stated that we might “measure the degree of totalitarian infection by…

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Brussels attacks and the Law of unintended consequences

15/04/2016 - Christophe Wasinski - 0 Comment

On March 22, 2016 Brussels has been targeted and no less than 32 persons…

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Freedom for Tooting! Self-professed urban guerrilla in a 1970s BBC sitcom

04/04/2016 - Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet - 0 Comment

“Citizen Smith” is one of these extraordinary 1970s British sitcoms that one should rediscover….

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Digital Extremism? Frisking Terror in Video Games

18/03/2016 - Adam Lewis - 1 Comment

Extremism and terrorism have infected popular culture in recent years. Television and film heavily…

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