Bruce Springsteen's Painful Reveal in 'The Tunnel of Love' FOR BRUCE Springsteen, 1985 was one hell of a year. After storming the global music charts with his seventh studio album, 'Born in the USA,' he blazed a trail around the world with a sensational sell-out tour. [For my own personal reflection of that tour, see …
THERE IS something unmistakably British about the Scout movement. Khaki shirts, wide-brimmed 'lemon-squeezer' hats, Bob-a-Job week and 'Ging Gang Goolie' sung around campfires. These things have long been part of the national imagination. Yet the origins of what eventually became a worldwide youth organisation lie not in a humdrum committee room, but in war, national …
Can Technology Support a Spiritual Life? FOR A LONG time, I assumed the answer to that question was a firm no. If anything, technology seemed to be the antithesis of the spiritual life. The modern digital world often feels like a machine designed to fracture attention, provoke outrage and keep people endlessly, mindlessly scrolling. I've …
Bruce Springsteen, Slane Castle Dublin, June 1, 1985 THERE ARE those concerts you attend, and memorable events they may be. But there are those that stay with you and never fade from view. And it is these that become life's touchstone moments. On 1 June 1985, I found myself standing in a vast field in …
FOR YEARS I've stood firmly in the anti-AI camp. There are sound reasons for that. The more I've observed the digital world evolve, the more concerned I've become about the ways technology could be (and is being) used to mislead, manipulate and entrap. We know that social media algorithms nudge people toward outrage and division. …
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