Verfreundungseffekt: Engaging with German-speaking culture
Interview with Jen Calleja, founder of Anglo-German arts and ethnography magazine Verfreundungseffekt.
Social Comment
Comparing depression to cancer doesn’t help anyone
A simple diagnosis of depression as a matter of “brain chemistry” can render the complex politics of daily life irrelevant.
Extremism isn’t always bad – often it is entirely appropriate
Not all vocal and active opposition to fundamental British values, whatever they might be deemed to be is wrong.
Current Affairs
Border Children: A Refugee Crisis
The UN has recommended that the mass of children entering the US from Central America points to a refugee crisis.
Time for constitutional change on abortion in Ireland
Ireland needs a constitutional change to empower women and finally end the long story of condemned abortion.
Capital Punishment: Two wrongs don’t make a right
The US in 2014: There is no morality in a form of justice which finds legality in killing human beings in the pretext of obtaining that justice.
Art & Photography
Music & Film
Writing
(On Gainful Employment)
recipe / for disaster’s nubile suburbian clatters / where everything counts and nothing quite matters.
Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel F fails to convince
A disappointing mix of flat postmodern irony and meaningless intellectual banter.
Speak of Trash (Pt. 1)
Flowers dont mean nothing / Speak of trash / But don’t say flowers mean nothing / Daisies on mind