Joseph S Furey
@tempus-fukit.bsky.social
Writer, freelance features journalist, arts critic and travel hack, devout Gooner. News UK, editorial and commercial. Non-fiction book in the works josephsfurey.substack.com – josephsfurey.com
open.substack.com/pub/josephsf... A love letter to Louisiana: equal parts comic yarn, gothic fable and heartfelt lament for a state where division is cultivated for profit, the landscape held to ransom and the spoils sent elsewhere. Includes Spotify playlist.
The Bayou Tapestry
New Orleans and Acadiana tell Louisiana’s story in different voices. But they draw on the same dark water, which runs through their histories, legends, music and politics
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So long, Dolly I had a ball in Dollywood. I even managed a creditable rendition of “Backwoods Barbie” at the Shamrock Pub in Gatlinburg Even from a jukebox, Dolly could quieten the rowdiest idiot in the room. Around those hills, badmouthing her was like cussing family www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b2...
DOLLY PARTON - BACKWOODS BARBIE
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Marking Juneteenth, but recognising it was only ever the beginning of the long, unfinished labour of turning release into freedom, freedom into equity and equity into power. I've rarely written with such urgency about the past. Rarely had to. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
Necessary Ghosts
The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed
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Dances with Zapatistas - my first job as a foreign correspondent was revolutionary in every way josephsfurey.substack.com/p/dances-wit...
Joseph S. Furey (@josephsfurey)
This is the before-now-untold story of my first foreign correspondent gig. I’d run out of life choices I wanted to make in the UK, so I hightailed it to Mexico. I arrived clueless but keen, with a p...
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My first job as a foreign correspondent was revolutionary in every way. #zapatistas #ezln #chiapas #lacandonjungle #selvalacandona #mexico #zapatour #subcomandantemarcos josephsfurey.substack.com/p/dances-wit...
Dances with Zapatistas
My first job as a foreign correspondent was revolutionary in every way
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Football support, for those who really feel it, is a radical mystery. I got to belong to something before I knew what belonging was, except as joy. Pure joy (and, of course, the profound misery that is its flipside, though there’s joy in that too) #arsenal
Jon Caramanica has certainly got a lot of backs up. But this is not the first time a fiftysomething has crawled round a neighbourhood with the windows down, loudly advertising his connection to what the kids like, and caused widespread concern. I’m still waiting to see some puppies. #billyjoel
I rarely have the opportunity to write about Ireland, and this was a joy. Agreeably digressive, it takes in, among other things, the filid, the Irish Iliad, Cú Chulainn, the Cooley Peninsula and the Táin Way. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/once-upon-...
Once Upon a Time in Éire
On the filid, the Irish Iliad, Cú Chulainn, hurling, the Cooley Peninsula and the Táin Way
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Tom Waits, witness, mourner and reluctant seer Includes full video of The Last Ride documentary; a rare recording of Ralph Waite’s 1980 movie, On the Nickel; Waits’s guest spot on the BBC Radio 6 show Iggy Confidential; and a couple of other things. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-last-r...
The Last Ride and Boots on the Ground
Tom Waits returns to form, as witness, mourner and reluctant seer
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Probably my most personal piece so far: on rubber tramping, freighthopping, precarity and homelessness in the United States. Somehow it manages to be funny – at my expense, naturally. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/asphalt-gy...
Asphalt Gypsy
Long before van life became Oscar bait, I had lived out of my car in almost every state. The film is a romantic fiction; the truth is precarious, exclusionary and very, very cold
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Trump is going to come undone. He's playing three slot machines at once, hoping chaos itself will hit the jackpot. #cuba #venezuela #iran josephsfurey.substack.com/p/petrostate-of-play
Petrostate of play
Venezuela, Cuba and Washington’s oil war on multiple fronts
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Latest Substack. Among other things, it’s about the secondhand book trade, David Seabrook, psychogeography and the bit of England I’d want to represent me if I died in action. Contains a not too fuzzy recording of The Cardinal and the Corpse. josephsfurey.substack.com/p/all-the-de...
All the Devils Are Here
On the secondhand book trade, David Seabrook, psychogeography and Kent noir
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Go siúil tú ar an aer in aghaidh do bhreithiúnais féin. A blessing from a Heaney via a Furey. Agus go mbuafaidh Arsenal F.C. anocht COYG #stpatricks #arsenal
Go siúil tú ar an aer in aghaidh do bhreithiúnais féin. A blessing from a Heaney via a Furey. Agus go mbuafaidh Arsenal F.C. anocht COYG #stpatricks #arsenal
Marc Agnifilo has built his career on Sean Combs and the Alexander brothers. The odds have just shortened on him replacing Bondi. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Alexander Brothers Found Guilty of All Counts in Sex-Trafficking Trial
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Light lengthens across the burbs, grass recalls its colour, the tiny engines of birds turning the morning over. Introductions falter halfway along the tongue – politesse for a world that’s already moving on.
Re. Greenland. The US Navy’s two hospital ships - Mercy and Comfort - are undergoing maintenance. Landry is governor of a state that places in the bottom five for infant and maternal mortality, chronic disease burden and overall life expectancy josephsfurey.substack.com/p/greenland-...
#jessejackson #blackhistorymonth “The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed” josephsfurey.substack.com/p/necessary-...
Necessary Ghosts
The American dream is a narcotic, but unevenly dispensed. Liberty was once rationed by race – and now the hard-won advances of the Sixties are being gleefully trashed
josephsfurey.substack.com
I’ll be back in the States soon, to finish a book, road-test a rebooted body and take the pulse of a country that’s been through a radical rewrite since I left it four years ago. It's going to be a ride for sure. More here… josephsfurey.substack.com/p/where-this...
Where This Dirty Road Is Taking Me
I’ll be back in the States soon, to finish a book, road-test a rebooted body and take the pulse of a country that’s been through a radical rewrite since I left it four years ago
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A US nuclear site in Greenland, Camp Century, was closed in 1967. Diesel fuel, PCBs, sewage in unlined sumps and low-level radioactive coolant from a portable reactor were left entombed in the ice. Cue a warming Arctic. Thanks America. More here... josephsfurey.substack.com/p/greenland-...
Greenland: Make America Go Away
The country is a lesson in lives worth living and what it will take to protect their future. It is not for sale to any nation that ranks cash above culture
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Smart play from Arsenal. Conserved vital energy. Defence barely tested, but very ably assited by Eze, among others. Havertz goal, a little icing on an already tasty cake
Scott Hommel is running for Lamar County Commissioner in the March 3 primary in Texas, having resigned as chair of the Lamar County Rep. Party after racist remarks he posted on the Gab platform surfaced Paris, Texas. Great movie. The town? Not so much josephsfurey.substack.com/p/well-alway...
We'll Always Have Paris... Texas
A meditation on movement, myth and our duty to the truth – however hard its lessons
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Is the Melania documentary so bad they had to release three million Epstein files?
This started life as frustration at the number of AI-generated hot takes I was seeing on U.S. intervention in Latin America/Venezuela, areas I know well. It turned into a week of work. But I'm happy with it, and believe it's worth your time josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-long-s...
The Long Shadow of Tío Sam
On Venezuela and how the U.S. fed Latin America’s darkest dictatorships
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A chillingly mendacious retelling of the January 6 insurrection on the White House’s own site www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Discover the real January 6 story: peaceful protest turned tragedy, Deep State entrapment, media deception, and President Trump's triumphant pardons restoring justice to patriotic Americans.
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Ah, the first day of the Merrineum, which I coined - to my cackling satisfaction - last year. Although I did also like Festervale and Taintmas. Betwixtmas seems to be in common use. Any others?
On the unchecked rise of ICE, the resurgence of racial profiling and how – 35 years later – Northern Exposure still represents the best of America (includes Christmas gift). #elainemiles josephsfurey.substack.com/p/cold-comfo...
Cold Comfort TV
On the unchecked rise of ICE, the resurgence of racial profiling and how – 35 years later – Northern Exposure still represents the best of America
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