The culture wars are over, apparently. Just don’t bet on peace anytime soon
Lisa Nandy, the UK’s new culture secretary, announced this week the ‘end of the era of culture wars’, but an armistice is not actually within her remit
Labour faces decisions that will alienate some in Britain who voted for it
Keir Starmer is an antidote to the privileged Tories he has displaced but he will need to be ruthlessness and willing to upend policy
The Abbey Theatre is vacating the stage during peak season for reasons unknown. What is going on?
The events that have unfolded over the past five years at the national theatre raise obvious parallels with the RTÉ debacle
The biggest problem with RTÉ’s new five-year plan is what it doesn’t address
We waited an age for A New Direction’s ‘third age’, and it already feels rather out of date
Even with Spielberg-style cuddliness, there’s a cold, dark void at the heart of artificial intelligence
Hugh Linehan: With his Kubrick-derived film AI Artificial Intelligence, the director created a surprisingly convincing version of where technology is leading us
Climate activists turn the screw on literary festivals
The investment firm has met the ire of literary activists amid accusations of greenwashing
Things can only get better? Rishi Sunak’s election chant reckoning was perfection
Countless politicians have tried to co-opt pop hits as campaign anthems
A Googlepocalypse is sweeping the United States – and its devastating effects are on their way to Ireland
Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
‘You mean to say we spent £80 and we don’t even get to see her tits?’: Roger Corman’s Irish studio was from another age
Hugh Linehan: Director set up in Galway in the mid-1990s, when he was in his 70s, and churned out his trademark low-budget exploitation movies there
Elon Musk: Brave truth-teller or weird pontificator about the IRA?
Hugh Linehan: The billionaire has been telling Michael Milken about everything from AI to space travel to the decline and fall of western civilisation
There’s nothing very dramatic about That They May Face the Rising Sun. Which is why it’s such a good film
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
Who watches the watchers when it comes to disinformation?
Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit organisation, set out to counter misleading online content. Instead it seems to be stifling legitimate debate
A scoopless Scoop: What Netflix gets wrong about the news business in its re-creation of Newsnight’s Prince Andrew coup
Hugh Linehan: The streamer’s new drama is just another lethargic entry into the often unlovely genre of hero-journalist movies
Colour-blind casting is the new normal. But we should still be alert to less palatable realities
Hugh Linehan: There are sound practical and ethical reasons for colourblind and colour-conscious casting. Other attempts to rewrite the past are absurd
The dream is clear: no hand-held device, no screens or keyboards. Just you, jacked into the metaverse like Keanu Reeves
Hugh Linehan: Business and tech inevitably and increasingly define how culture is produced, distributed and consumed