
John P Russell. A voice from rural Ireland.
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John P Russell. A voice from rural Ireland.
@TalksWild
Conversations about Ireland's environment, natural landscape and keeping it wild. The spirit of the land sustains me.






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Does a more religious society make a better society? @SAPinker says no: Would you rather live in Afghanistan or Scandinavia? “The more religious the society, the worse the problems are.” @DouthatNYT disagrees: You can balance the best of faith and modernity. “What we should wish as Americans is to be neither Afghanistan nor Scandinavia—but to be the United States of America.”




In an article for Great Bay Area Review, Shenzhen-based analyst Zeng Yiyao: "On foreign trade, the EU is not a monolith: France supports protectionism, while Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and others strongly oppose it, fearing cost increases and trade wars...











A chip off the old block or something new: the politics of Ken O’Flynn irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight…























