The 2005 Booker Prize winner has launched a scathing attack on the “woke” movement, saying it has become a “religious cult”.
The European Commission has announced that they will be making perceived “hate speech” a crime under EU law, with particular emphasis on stamping out speech targeted at “lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ)” individuals or groups. The report, which was released earlier this month, describes how “hate speech” will be added to […]
I was disturbed but not really surprised when I read a October 21 New England Journal of Medicine article by Scott D. Halpern MD PhD titled “Learning about End-of-Life Care from Grandpa”. Dr. Halpern, a palliative care doctor and ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote about his elderly grandfather who had been widowed for the third time […]
In northern latitudes the sound of spring begins with the booming of snow-covered ice cracking in frozen rivers. Is something like that happening in Belgium? Officials in the Belgian city of Leuven are investigating about ten euthanasia cases which may not have been done legally. The public prosecutor was tipped off by an anonymous letter to […]
WARNING: Tweet contains an image which some may find distressing, reader discretion is advised. Australia has demanded that China apologises for posting a “repugnant” fake picture posted by an official government Twitter account which depicted an Australian soldier cutting the throat of an Afghan child. The image also had a caption which read “Don’t be […]
The latest and most serious attempt to overturn the referendum which overwhelmingly approved changes to the criteria governing eligibility for Irish citizenship in 2004 comes before the Seanad on Wednesday. There have been, as we have noted before, several other Private Members Bills tabled by communist TDs, but this one in the name of Labour […]
If you needed any more evidence of the lockdown being catastrophic for society and human life, it was provided this weekend by one of the Government’s own top experts. Professor Risteárd Ó’Laoide, the National Director of the National Cancer Control Programme, has said the impact of covid-19 on referrals for lung, breast, and prostate cancer […]
The most prestigious school in England, Eton, has been widely criticised for firing an English teacher who planned to question “radical feminist orthodoxy” in a lecture called “The Patriarchy Paradox”.
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]
Hoo boy: 🚨POLL🚨 Sunday Business Post / Red C % who believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should be made compulsory for people to take: All Adults: 47% By Age:18-34: 42%35-54: 41%55+: 59% By Party: FG: 61%FF: 59%GP: 43%I/O: 38%SF: 38% 29th November 2020 — Ireland Votes | #Vote2024 (@Ireland_Votes) November 29, 2020 The numbers rise […]
Officials in the Belgian city of Leuven are investigating about ten euthanasia cases which may not have been done legally. The public prosecutor was tipped off by an anonymous letter to the De Standaard newspaper. comes from a letter sent anonymously to the paper’s editorial desk. Until the investigation has been completed, police are keeping mum. The […]
The Book of Kells is Ireland’s greatest cultural treasure and the world’s most famous medieval manuscript. It contains the four Gospels in Latin based on the Vulgate text which St Jerome completed in 384AD, intermixed with readings from the earlier Old Latin translation. The book is written on vellum (prepared calfskin) in a bold and […]