The Easter Rebellion in 1916, as the Irish Government had a dilemma, as to how the upraising be commemorated, as the Republic of Ireland came into being as a consequence of the “ Rising” and thus the centenary could be marked in the most official way possible by having the Irish Army parade through Dublin…
The former Bank governor and now the UN special envoy for climate finance, Mark Carney focuses on the global financial system and corporate governance, along with climate change. Carney’s detailed account of money and finance, where we get tantalising glimpses of life as a central banker – gilt chairs at a G20 summit in Riyadh…
During pandemic doctors and nurses have been applauded as saviors by the grateful public, even though they have been flying blind lacking the knowledge or resources to tackle Covid-19. Jim Down, a critical care consultant at University College London Hospitals, tells the story of one intensive care team struggling to fend off the first wave,…
Hannah Dawson, a British academic has been reading, sifting, and understanding this vast global project, the endless battle for freedom of choice. Feminism is the insight that sexism exists, and the struggle against that oppression. The book begins with an experience of female harassment. “Feminism only makes sense if you believe in feminism, privilege does…
Jeanie and Julius, the twins have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty, Inside the Walls of their English old cottage in the fictional Melbourne, they make music, and in the garden, they grew everything they need for sustenance. While…
Culloden, Falkirk, and Prestonpans, the three pitched battles of 1745, were brief affairs lasting about 90 minutes. Culloden ended all hope of a Stuart Restoration. What followed destroyed the traditional clan society of the Highlands. The last pitched battle in Scotland, between Scotland and England. There were more Scottish than English support for the Jacobites,…
Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide and a quota permits only two Tutsi students for every twenty pupils. French Rwandan writer Mukasonga reveals the prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the elite school for the girls in the interminable rainy season. Nothing at Our Lady of the…
In the world of geeks, for decades two competing tribes of artificial intelligence experts have been furiously dueling with each other in research labs and conference halls around the world, with mathematical models and computer codes. The connectionist tribe believes that computers can learn behaviour in the same way as humans do, by processing …
Dr Jordan B Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, who grew up in Fairview, Alberta, had already helped millions of readers in his sequel to 12 Rules of Life, impose order on the chaos of their lives, by resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order…
Linda Colley encapsulate a common purpose to define power, the rights and responsibilities of states and citizens by starting with the Corsican Constitution of 1755 as both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia with her remarkable Nakaz to Sierra Leone’s James Africanus Horton to Tunisia’s Khayr-al-Din, a creator of…