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Noam Chomsky: ‘Are we so innocent? No, we’re not. In fact, the United States is one of those rare countries – maybe the only country – that’s been at war, almost always aggressive war, from the first moment of its founding.’ Photograph: Heuler Andrey/AFP/via Getty Images Noam Chomsky: ‘Ireland has robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars’
  • Culture
  • Hugh Linehan
  • October 16, 2021, 00:06

The 92-year-old author on US foreign policy and Ireland’s immoral tax regime

Léa Seydoux: ‘I am very shy. But shy people can be very daring’ Léa Seydoux: ‘I am very shy. But shy people can be very daring’
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 16, 2021, 05:00

Bond actor on shyness, Bond, and Truffaut and Godard’s influence on The French Dispatch

Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story
  • Culture
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 16, 2021, 05:00

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is the latest example of trend that refuses to go away

David Keenan: ‘I needed to get away from Ireland’ David Keenan: ‘I needed to get away from Ireland’
  • Music
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • October 16, 2021, 05:00

The peripatetic singer-songwriter talks solitude, anxiety and upcoming gigs

Dave Bautista: ‘Professional wrestling brought me out of my shell’ Dave Bautista: ‘Professional wrestling brought me out of my shell’
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • October 16, 2021, 05:00

Dune actor gets to grip with the dramatics that facilitated leap from fight ring to screen

Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good? Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?
  • Music
  • Ed Power
  • October 15, 2021, 09:53

With Easy on Me, after a six-year recording hiatus, Adele is back in the business of being Adele

Grafton Architects complete hat-trick with win of 2021 Riba Stirling Prize Grafton Architects complete hat-trick with win of 2021 Riba Stirling Prize
  • Art & Design
  • Oliver Wainwright
  • October 15, 2021, 09:03

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara take award for ‘six-storey hymn to social interaction’

Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues
  • Film
  • Nadia Khomami
  • October 15, 2021, 08:54

Bond star says he dislikes aggression of hetero spaces, gay bars were a good place to meet women

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Patrick Freyne: Royals ride who they like. It says so in Latin on the Windsor crest Patrick Freyne: Royals ride who they like. It says so in Latin on the Windsor crest
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  • October 15, 2021, 05:00

Diana: The Musical tells the story of the famous tea-towel and mug model Diana, princess of Wales

Latest Film

Léa Seydoux: 'I always felt as a kid that I didn’t have the words to express my emotions'. Photograph: Jingyu Lin/New York Times Léa Seydoux: ‘I am very shy. But shy people can be very daring’
Dave Bautista in James Herbert’s Dune: ‘I never signed up to be a movie star. The spotlight means nothing to me.’ Dave Bautista: ‘Professional wrestling brought me out of my shell’
The 53-year-old actor said he started going to gay bars when he was young because he wanted to avoid ending up “being in a punch-up” during a night out. Photogra[h: Rich Fury/Getty Images Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues
  • The Movie Quiz: Pick out an official sequel to John Carpenter’s Halloween
  • Directing Halloween Kills: ‘It’s not just a fan-service type of movie’

TV & Radio

Jeanna De Waal in the musical Diana. Photograph: Sara Krulwich/New York Times Patrick Freyne: Royals ride who they like. It says so in Latin on the Windsor crest

Diana: The Musical tells the story of the famous tea-towel and mug model Diana, princess of Wales

Liveline listeners hoping for furious fulminations about collapsing morals are in for a disappointment, as indeed is the host Joe Duffy. ‘Were we right in the head?’ Joe Duffy asks as free contraception proves a difficult pill to swallow
Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Willie (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese (Lane Factor) are the protagonists in Reservation Dogs. Reservation Dogs: Deliciously bingeable and quietly provocative underdog tale
  • Rob Beckett: ‘I’ve lost a lot of friends to suicide. I’ve got to tell the truth of how I’m feeling’
  • ‘I used to drink a lot’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing back

Latest Books

Newcastle United fans celebrate a goal by Alan Shearer. Photograph: Clive Mason /Allsport Newcastle United Stole My Heart by Michael Chaplin: The amazing rise of sport

Mihir Bose on the religion of soccer, in particular the cult of Newcastle United

Damon Galgut: ‘I started playing with the narrative voice in the same way that the camera is a presence in a film’ Damon Galgut: ‘There’s something jagged and incoherent about the South African psyche’
Billy Connolly. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Naoise Dolan on memoirs by Billy Connolly, Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan
  • Evanna Lynch: I never planned for anorexia to be my thing
  • Browser: Lucid portrait of a girl stepping out of childhood

Film Reviews

‘I discovered what it means to be a woman alone in this world,’ writes Guida (Julia Stockler) in an undelivered letter to her sister. Photograph: Bruno Machado The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

 
Tom Hardy in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Venom: Let There Be Carnage

 
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Adam Driver as Jacques LeGris and Matt Damon as Jean de Carrouges in The Last Duel. Photograph: Patrick Redmond for 20th Century Studios The Last Duel

 

Latest Music

David Keenan: ‘I remember looking out into the audience and seeing someone in the crowd dressed like me.’ Photograph: M Beriestain David Keenan: ‘I needed to get away from Ireland’

The peripatetic singer-songwriter talks solitude, anxiety and upcoming gigs

Adele: if earth-moving torch songs are your thing, there is little arguing with Easy on Me’s effectiveness. Photograph: Simon Emmett/Columbia Records/PA Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?
The Rolling Stones: the band have cut Brown Sugar from their US tour setlist. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ‘I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is’: Keith Richards on Rolling Stones decision to drop Brown Sugar
  • The Music Quiz: Who is the youngest ever Glastonbury headliner?
  • Paddy Moloney: President Higgins leads tributes to Chieftains founder

Book Reviews

Fortune: A novel with the momentum and power of a Greek tragedy
Hot Air: The fight against the headwind of climate-change denial
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl: Strap yourself in for smooth, well-told tales
John le Carré’s Silverview: A fitting conclusion to a writing career that redefined spy fiction

Stage

Night Dances: Robyn Byrne, Jessie Thompson and Aoife McAtamney in Emma Martin’s production. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland Night Dances: Raucous, loud and sweaty, this is a thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music

Dublin Theatre Festival: Emma Martin shows us that the best response to a challenge is to dance back

iGirl: Olwen Fouéré in Marina Carr’s new play. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh iGirl: Olwen Fouéré stalks the stage in Marina Carr’s multidimensional piece of theatre art
Bang! playwright Michelle Read: ‘When you’re trying to create something dramatically, you’re talking to the people who are living it and trying to refine that experience.’ Photograph: Ste Murray Michelle Read: ‘We’re very good at masking how we’re feeling’
  • Conversations After Sex: ★★★★★ for Mark O’Halloran’s extraordinary new play
  • Pride and joy: Julie Taymor on staging the return of The Lion King

Art & Design

Protesters march to the Dublin City Council offices in protest of the proposal to build a hotel around the Cobblestone pub in Smithfield, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Hotels vs culture: The debate on Dublin’s future reignites

Protesters say new hotels crowd out housing and the arts; officials say they create jobs

Riba Stirling Prize: Grafton Architects’ Town House, at Kingston University, in southwest London. Photograph: Ed Reeve/Riba/PA Wire Grafton Architects complete hat-trick with win of 2021 Riba Stirling Prize
Seafront plaza: an artist’s impression of the scheme proposed by Blackrock Village Rejuvenation Group ‘Very feasible’ seafront scheme would see plaza built over Dart line in Dublin suburb
  • Karen Lee: ‘I was onstage and I forgot my lines. I forgot where I was’
  • ‘It’s a bit of fun, kind of kitsch’: Sculpture unveiled on Dublin City Hall’s O’Connell plinth

Unthinkable

Hannah Arendt: Thinking ‘is a profitless enterprise as far as results are concerned’. Photograph: Getty Images Stop to think, and think to be happy: Hannah Arendt’s credo for life

Unthinkable: Philosopher born this day 115 years ago believed that politics should be joyous

Participants in public debate tend to jump straight from condemning an argument to condemning its speaker, as though poor reasoning was a sin. Photograph: Akindo/Getty How to win at arguments: Six philosophical tips
‘If you look at the AI system Tesla uses for their self-driving cars, it’s pretty much inscrutable even to the people who built it.’ Photograph: Getty Who is responsible if a self-driving car kills a pedestrian to save the driver?
  • Is your sense of reality in fact a hallucination?
  • How well do you understand your sense of smell? Try these three experiments

Heritage

The owner of the Merchant’s Arch pub in Temple Bar is seeking to knock one side of the laneway at Merchant’s Arch made up of a two-storey building, and build a three-storey-over-basement hotel and restaurant. Photograph: Tom Honan Disappearing Dublin: The sites that are going, gone – or were saved by ‘people power’

The Cobblestone and Merchant’s Arch are just two of many sites subject to change

Pronsías O’Rathaille, grandson of Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, and James Connolly Heron, great grandson of James Connolly, unveiling a plan for the preservation and development of Moore Street in Dublin 1. Photograph: Alan Betson Alternative plans for Moore Street proposed by 1916 rising relatives’ group
St Conleth’s College in Ballsbridge, Dublin. The school’s website says it planned to build ‘state-of-the-art laboratory facilities’ and larger classrooms and art facilities. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Plans for development at St Conleth’s College rejected by city council
  • British society suffers ‘amnesia’ over Anglo-Irish Treaty, conference hears
  • 23,000-year-old footprints shed new light on humans’ arrival in the Americas

Michael Viney's Another Life

Gannet with fish: Anyone who has watched the birds plunging vertically from the sky to seize mackerel deep beneath the surface must marvel at their anatomy. Illustration: Michael Viney Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers

Michael Viney: Irish numbers have more than doubled since the counts of Operation Seafarer in 1970

Fox with prey: The urban adult is “thin and exhausted” from finding and ferrying food to its cubs. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: The fox as he dwells among us
Choughs. Illustration: Michael Viney The declining choughs of Dursey island need decision makers’ help
  • Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows
  • Between cliff and sea: The curious trail of a puffin

Tuarascáil

Deireadh na díospóireachta sa Dáil an tseachtain seo caite. Faoin reachtaíocht nua beidh 20 faoin gcéad d’earcaithe nua na státseirbhíse in ann a gcuid oibre a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge faoi 2030. ‘Táimid tar éis céim chun tosaigh a bhreacadh’

Naoi mbliain ó shin a cuireadh tús leis an bplé ar an mBille seo

Mikis Theodorakis i bPáras i 1970. Grianghraf: Bertrand Laforêt/Getty Images Gannchuid aráin, mórchuid gréine
Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn i mbun léirsithe taobh amuigh de Dháil Éireann. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Ní féidir a bheith cinnte ach de thrí rud sa saol
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Billy Connolly. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Naoise Dolan on memoirs by Billy Connolly, Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan
Stott chronicles his journey of scientific discovery from the 1990s. By then the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had already been established and was beginning to make real headway Hot Air: The fight against the headwind of climate-change denial
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1 Noam Chomsky: ‘Are we so innocent? No, we’re not. In fact, the United States is one of those rare countries – maybe the only country – that’s been at war, almost always aggressive war, from the first moment of its founding.’ Photograph: Heuler Andrey/AFP/via Getty Images Noam Chomsky: ‘Ireland has robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars’

2 Evanna Lynch: her new book is The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up – A Memoir. Photograph: Hachette Evanna Lynch: I never planned for anorexia to be my thing

3 The owner of the Merchant’s Arch pub in Temple Bar is seeking to knock one side of the laneway at Merchant’s Arch made up of a two-storey building, and build a three-storey-over-basement hotel and restaurant. Photograph: Tom Honan Disappearing Dublin: The sites that are going, gone – or were saved by ‘people power’

4 Liveline listeners hoping for furious fulminations about collapsing morals are in for a disappointment, as indeed is the host Joe Duffy. ‘Were we right in the head?’ Joe Duffy asks as free contraception proves a difficult pill to swallow

5 Léa Seydoux: 'I always felt as a kid that I didn’t have the words to express my emotions'. Photograph: Jingyu Lin/New York Times Léa Seydoux: ‘I am very shy. But shy people can be very daring’

6 Damian Lewis as Bobby ‘Axe’ Axelrod in Billions. Photograph: Sky Atlantic Damian Lewis: ‘We had a sadness in our family’

7 Ann Ingle. Photograph: Alan Betson Ann Ingle: ‘People don’t think about older people as exciting’

8 The Rolling Stones: the band have cut Brown Sugar from their US tour setlist. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty ‘I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is’: Keith Richards on Rolling Stones decision to drop Brown Sugar

9 David Keenan: ‘I remember looking out into the audience and seeing someone in the crowd dressed like me.’ Photograph: M Beriestain David Keenan: ‘I needed to get away from Ireland’

10 Timothée Chalamet on the set of Wonka. ‘The merest mention of Netflix’s imminent Willy Wonka origin story causes me to slump into a coma.’ Photograph: Timothée Chalamet/Twitter Donald Clarke: Not every villain needs a harrowing origin story

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