The west is not just imposing sanctions: It is waging a full scale hot economic war on Russia.
What we have, with surrogacy, is a legal severing of the natural ties between birth mother and child.
That, at the end of the day, is what nationalism is: The willingness to give yourself and your life for the country you call home
Because ultimately, neutrality is only useful until a better opportunity for a bit of moral preening comes along.
It might seem unusual to start a column on the war in Ukraine with Irish climate policy, but the two are deeply connected.
There is a great effort underway to try and make you feel like a bigot if you object to this kind of thing.
This was a remarkably shoddy piece of “journalism” by the Irish Examiner
The west is polarised and divided internally, because there is no longer any agreed set of universal values.
The truth of the matter is that this is the kind of entitled attitude that got Hogan into trouble in the first place.
This report by SIMI is a fascinating document, if you’re interested in policy, and it systematically takes the Government’s declared policy apart, in an authoritative, and convincing way.
The idea that the west has some moral duty to abandon millions of people to Russian overlordship and bullying just to keep the Russians happy is absurdist.
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.