Naomi Klein
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Moral clarity of young people on climate crisis is a beacon for society
- Opinion
- September 29, 2020, 01:00
The teenagers of Ireland had planned on hosting a massive Fridays for Future protest last week on September 25th to remind their elders that they cont(...)

Will it be July or September? Whenever it is, it will be to a much changed world. In China, normality is creeping back. Shops are reopening. Pe(...)

Jane Fonda, aged 81, doing weekly jail time in climate protest
- US
- November 4, 2019, 12:36
The night before Jane Fonda was arrested in Washington again last week, a member of her social media team asked whether she would consider writin(...)

Keira Knightley: ‘I got so freaked by social media, I turned it off after about five seconds’
- Film
- September 23, 2019, 11:10
The role of Katharine Gun in Official Secrets is played by Keira Knightley. Earlier this summer, a few weeks before her second child was born, Knightl(...)

Naomi Klein: ‘It was hard to feel like climate change was urgent’
- Books
- September 21, 2019, 05:00
If we’re going to save the planet, do we have to get rid of capitalism first? It’s not an abstract question these days. As the traditional political l(...)

Travellers and people with disabilities must use their vote for change
- Health & Family
- April 24, 2019, 17:01
The American mid-term elections last November saw a powerful surge in the number of women elected. Within this cohort, an unprecedented number of Nati(...)

Donald Trump, self-professed “very stable genius”, gave the world some unintended brilliance last week in his praise for Apple chief executive Tim Coo(...)

The time of my life: ‘There was a kind of joyful chaos to it all’
- People
- June 9, 2018, 06:00
The Time of My Life is a weekly column about a moment that changed someone’s life – for the better or the worse The venue was the Hub on Dublin’s Eus(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Everything Must Go review: Jenny Fran Davis’s millennial meat market
- Books
- December 16, 2017, 06:00
“I’m supertired of selling parts of myself in exchange for love from other people.” The transactional nature of relationships is the nub of Everything(...)