The polling comes from ABC News, together with the Washington Post, and is very reputable. It’s more “eyebrow raising” than shocking in the case of Florida, but the Arizona numbers certainly justify the decision to break out the “Shock New Poll” headline: President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races […]
President Trump will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Saturday, at about 9pm Irish time. Officially, nobody knows who the nominee will be, but the betting markets, and smart pundits, are almost all agreed: It will be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, presently a Judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals: […]
Important thing to note in this story: The word “controlled”: “Coronavirus should be let spread amongst people below 60 in a controlled way, the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee will be told on Wednesday. Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist Dr Johan Giesecke will recommend that the virus be let spread through the population alongside a programme that concentrates […]
The good news is that several potential coronavirus vaccines are at the “widespread human trial” stage. The bad news is that in the case of at least one of them, that trial is running into some trouble: Experts have been particularly concerned about AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials, which began in April in Britain, because of the […]
At first glance, these numbers might shock you. But there’s little reason to doubt them, for reasons we’ll come to in a moment: Research: 47% think the worst of the pandemic is ahead of us, the highest level reported since April 52% think there should be more restrictions, similar to the levels reported in March […]
The first thing that any new British Prime Minister has to do, upon taking office, is to pen “the letter of last resort”. We have no idea what’s in it, but we know what it is: Instructions given, in a sealed envelope, to the commanders of Her Majesty’s nuclear submarines, only to be opened in […]
It was a big weekend in media land for lengthy pieces about the apparently dangerous “rise of the far right” in Ireland. The Journal, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Examiner (to a lesser estent) featured couple-of-thousand-word plus pieces this weekend claiming to be detailed investigations into the phenomenon, and its apparent connection […]
The video is here, courtesy of ex-FG TD Noel Rock. It’s a fairly simple act of, well, scumbaggery: https://twitter.com/NoelRock/status/1306967632516714497 Question: He’s the Tánaiste, the number two politician in the country, and an obvious target for those who are legitimately or illegitimately disgruntled. Why doesn’t he have security? People would complain about the cost, of course, […]
On the one hand, good. There’s not much point keeping a law on the books that’s been transparently flouted by most EU countries for years: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that proposed new migration reforms would replace the so-called “Dublin Regulation”, which governs which member state handles a new arrival’s asylum […]
Left to its own devices, Coronavirus kills people one at a time. When it’s got the helping hand of Government and NPHET, on the other hand, it can wipe out whole cities: The Cabinet are to meet this morning where they will decide on the latest NPHET recommendations. The public health experts met on Thursday […]
Broadly amusing, mainly because of how the American left spends so much of its time, in normal times, accusing people who oppose it of being anti-vaxxers. How times change: “With deaths from the coronavirus nearing 200,000 in the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday assailed President Trump for playing politics with a potential […]
“What simpering, shallow wokeness”, wrote one critic yesterday. “Possibly the worse tweet ever sent by an Irish public representative.” Can anyone, in good faith, disagree? Keeping 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and 'Of Mice and Men' on the JC syllabus isn't worth the hurt they are causing. Dept should see sense here. "Government urged to drop […]