In recent years, Kate Royal has been hailed as one of the emerging opera singers in the classical music world. The British lyric soprano is the winner of the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2004 John...
The waiting is the worst. The knowledge that something truly awful is coming, and there’s nothing you can do but stand by and watch. You see, my blue pen is running out of ink, and there’s...
For the past ten years the Irish government has spent public money with the financial acumen of a five year old in a sweet shop. Salaries soared. Public servants scaled the career ladder with...
Let's talk about sex, shall we? Just with that line, I've opened up all sorts of doors. Talking about sex takes many shapes and forms, particularly in present-day America, where we have a cultural...
The sequel has become a quick way for the movie industry to draw in viewers. With the cost of production studios are reluctant to take chances and instead fall back on cookie cutter plots that seldom...
In his new book, The Anti-Globalisation Breakfast Club: Manifesto for a Peaceful Revolution, Laurence Brahm, an ex-lawyer who worked closely with many East Asian governments during their economic...
This may seem like an odd question to ask in the aftermath of the murder of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, but please bear with me. The mainstream of Russian society is, I would...
When I was growing up, the space race between NASA and the Soviet space program was a major topic of conversation. The race to the moon between the United States and Russia was a major avenue of Cold...
Tina Brown’s ploys for self-promotion are numerous, but her latest piece, along with a follow-up interview on CNN, takes the cake. Brown, former editor for noted U.S. magazines such as Vanity Fair,...
Today we associate the veil strictly with the Muslim faith, forgetting that it has a rich tradition in Christian theology as well. After all, I Corinthians 11, verse 5 states: But every woman that...
