Directed by Christopher Nolan. Script by Christopher Nolan. Starring John David Washington; Robert Pattinson; Elizabeth Debicki; Dimple Kapadia; Michael Caine; Kenneth Branagh. Running time 150 minutes. Rotten Tomatoes 76%. You thought diving into the concept of layered dreams was hard to follow in Christopher Nolan’s Inception? Or perhaps it was the apparently plausible yet highly theoretical physics of Interstellar that cooked your bacon. Well, none of these […]
I have known Phil Hogan for more than 40 years and I remain astonished at his rise but even more amazed that he has fallen just when his presence was useful to the country. He was not Jacques Delors but an Irish commissioner was likely to be far more useful to Ireland at the Brexit […]
A new study has found that 70% of unintended pregnancies end in abortion in countries where it is broadly legal, while in countries where abortion is restricted, this happens only in 50% of the cases. A new multi-authored study published by The Lancet medical journal investigated the occurrence of abortion in unintended pregnancies world-wide. […]
The Democratic and Republican conventions presented two vastly different perceptions of America, with such little overlap, or agreement on basic narrative points, that each side seems to be past the point of acknowledging a basic validity in the other. The Republicans pinned the violence of the past 90 days on the mayors of the Democrat-run […]
“Given there is already huge unmet need for formal care in this country, it is staggering to think about the sky-high level of demand that will be placed on our care system and unpaid carers in the next 25 years if urgent action isn’t taken by the Government.” The United Kingdom is worryingly unprepared for […]
I was left wing up until I realised that the left was not what it purported to be. And that was in the mid 1990s. Born and raised in South County Meath in 1960, I joined the Trim branch of the Labour Party in 1981. I was working in a local drapery shop at the […]
It strikes me that a lot of people are arguing with each other about masks, and not always on a scientific basis but more on an emotional level, which frequently includes ad hominem attacks on those who hold opposing views. There’s a sense that people are demonising people each other: both those who believe masks should […]
For the past two weeks the country has been transfixed with Golfgate: who attended, did they wear masks during the shindig (No), what kind of tour of the country did Big Phil take, who was going to resign, what on earth were they thinking, and much more. This is understandable. The arrogance and sense of […]
The chairman of NPHET and the Minister for Health have both recently alluded to the possibility of a second lockdown. Would you support this? VOTE in our Poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.
The tragic and unjust death of George Floyd reignited two discussions that had long been had right the way across the Western World. The first was how to deal with the supposed ‘systemic’ racism that existed within our society? And the second – and what some people see as the root of all evil in […]
Not so many years ago, ‘political correctness’ was an eye-rolling description of our culture’s tendency to self-censor in polite company, and to shame those who wouldn’t play along. Soon after, the culturally observant noted the ascent of ‘identity politics’ — a growing pattern of pitting aggrieved minority groups against each other on the basis of […]
Care homes were told to impose a blanket ‘do not resuscitate’ order on all of their residents during the peak of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak, according to a major study. The survey, undertaken by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, found that while care homes were put under “constant” pressure to accept patients with Covid-19, they were […]