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Nihilists fighting the past and the future

Culture is not a war, it's an edifice that everybody contributes to. Nothing positive can come out of fighting over it.

Parnell Palme McGuinnessColumnist

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In the strange days between March and May this year, when life viewed through the dark glass of lockdown showed a different set of priorities, the trenches of the culture wars were briefly unoccupied. In comparison with the very human tragedies of separation and loss, the obsessions of tribal politics looked grubby and petty.

Captain James Cook was one of the Anywheres of his time. Peter Braig

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Parnell Palme McGuinness is managing director of Agenda C.

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