Jack of all trades, master of some. Dublin-born and Drogheda-based author of Cannae: The Experience of Battle' and editor of ‘1916: The Church & the Rising', Nine-time CMA award winner. One-time future world leader. Mostly tired.
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Just seven books in a less book-rich May than I’d hoped, though it was fun catching up with Saga which I’d been neglecting, and the other books were all worthwhile, with the one on the Cáin Adomnáin - which should be much better known - being particularly good.
I’m finding this book deeply frustrating. It’s readable, and I’m learning a fair bit, but it makes bizarre claims about the natures of friendship in the past and even on its own terms it has vast gaps that undermine the landscape it’s trying to map.
I’m doing well on the auld culinary multitasking nowadays. Lunches are proving especially productive on the reading front.
There are very good reasons why the Vatican is saying that the big tech companies “exercise de facto power over the conditions of everyday life” and that it would be appropriate for States and transnational bodies to regulate and police them for the good of all.
It’s misleading for +Barron to say, for instance, that the Pope’s new encyclical places the moral legitimacy of private property and the free market alongside the universal destination of goods when it explicitly says they are subordinate to it and to the principle of solidarity.
Some familiar spots on the flight this morning: the Menai Strait flying over Anglesey; Llandudno and Conwy; Brighton with the wonderful charred skeleton of West Pier just about visible; and finally Paris, where I’m currently waiting for my train. Meetings are on the cards.
Honestly, I don’t see what the Pope has against manuscripts. We have some cracking ones in Dublin. Printed books are clearly for rank modernists.
Headline-writers at @irishtimes.com, the winner getting one-and-a-half times the points of the runner-up is not “pipping them at the post”. I mean, be fair.
There’s much more to take issue with here - www.foxnews.com/opinion/bish... - in truth, this is a serpentine reading, one that should have anybody engaging with it constantly thinking “yes, but…” or “hang on…”
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Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas addresses AI, Catholic social teaching, war and peace, and the technocratic paradigm threatening human dignity today.
Five books for April, with finishing the depressingly timely Hannah Arendt and the often timeless Chesterton collection taking most of the month. The Batman book contained some fabulously spooky detective stories, while Boyer was fun and Bratten Weiss was seriously thought-provoking.
“I think this might be a Hay first, in which we have an author in a hostage situation. Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.”
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Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
March was, I’m afraid, a pretty sparse month for reading - just two books completed, and me a chunk of the way through a third. Still: these were both worth the reading, with the Clark one being a fascinating study in stakeholder management in the context of NATO’s first sustained campaign.
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February was a big month for reading - I used weekends, evenings, mornings, lunches, and commutes to bizarrely good effect. The Chesterton one, I should say, is a reread, which is often where books really come into their own. It’s his first essay collection and has a couple of his very best essays.
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I’ve always been bad at keeping track of my reading, so I reckon by doing it online - here and elsewhere - I might force myself to stay on top of things. And to read more, and better. Here’s January so, all read and annotated for myself.
