Jenny Farrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Jenny Farrell
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Culture
Sally Rooney, Palestine Action and Britain’s anti-terror Law
October 21, 2026The popular Irish writer is unable to sell her books in the UK due to her public support of the organization 'Palestine Action.'
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Culture
William Morris: Art, revolution, and the dream of a different society
September 30, 2026The socialist designer's goal was always to restore the conditions of artistic production that capitalism had destroyed.
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World
Contested memory: The German Democratic Republic and its erasure
September 25, 2026The dominant Western account demonizes the GDR, erasing its social achievements, the conditions it faced and the experiences of its people.
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Culture
Titian and the crisis of Renaissance humanism
August 12, 2026His long career coincides with and sheds light on the early capitalist era. Titian's revolutionary technique emerged in response to the pressures of commerce, war, political reaction and plague.
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Culture
Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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Culture
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: Athenian violence and theatrical utopia
June 1, 2026Shakespeare's play is more political than you might think. The play’s enchantment and comic confusion emerge from a social order defined by violence, hierarchy, and coercion.
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Politics
Israel’s growing impunity: Naval forces seize aid flotilla with Irish president’s sister aboard
May 4, 2026On board the Israeli warship, there was massive violence: activists were bound, dragged across the floor, beaten, kicked, and shot at.
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Politics
How the EU is using sanctions to destroy journalists who defy the establishment line
April 22, 2026The sanctions represent a fundamentally authoritarian logic: that the state is entitled to define which speech is permissible, and to impose extrajudicial punishment on those who deviate.
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