Tag: Brexit
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Freedom to speak – and listen with undivided attention
Despite disagreeing, it felt like we had made a genuine human connection. A rare experience, social media makes it too easy for us to stay in our comfort zones, divided, agitated and enraged.
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What are we stumbling into? Messages of hope and fear from Amsterdam
How can we be so careless? We cannot afford to forget lessons of another time when populist opportunists arose from recession to destroy human decency.
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In a state of ambiguity
Neither one thing nor another. Travelling through Europe for the first on my new Irish passport, I fear the callous carelessness of hard Brexiteers and their crude threat to an essential state of ambiguity: ‘neither simply Irish nor simply British’