(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4. Thanks.) A story to start. Or, more accurately, a snapshot of life from a far-away place – one that the Deliveroo driver Caio Benicio, who helped tragedy not turn into horror, will know from way […]
(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4. Thanks.) There’s a scene in the 1984 film Amadeus, where a young Mozart is brought before the emperor for the first time – him only a giddy child with a lunatic laugh, all under the […]
(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4. Thanks.) ‘Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.’Joseph Joubert; French Essayist. Two questions to start. Firstly, what is the purpose of elite-level sport? As in, is it to win, or merely to take […]
(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4. Thanks.) ‘And coming up after the nine o’clock weather, the news.’ When it comes to climate change, there are a couple of supposed superstars in the arena. Red carpet gets rolled out. Big premieres […]
(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4.) In the very early hours of Tuesday, 6 June, and long since we were bent right over, we all got fucked a little deeper. A collective screwing, if you will. A massive gang-bang. For it was in […]
(If you enjoy, please feel free to buy a coffee (which will likely be a pint) via https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewanmackenna, at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ewanmackenna, or on Revolut at @ewan0k7m4.) Sit back, and empty your mind of all you’ve been burdened with. Or, if unable to do that, at least open it to some inconvenient truths. A couple of months back, Ukrainian MP […]
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The clock ticks louder and faster for some and yet people as strong and as special as Anto Finnegan face down the end with a dignity and positivity to put us all to shame. “How are you?” It’s a question meant as much more than a greeting and gentle introduction. Anto Finnegan knows that by now and knows too that […]
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