Honestly, did we all miss the bit where Bill Gates headed off to university and spent a decade studying to become the world’s leading expert on infectious diseases? Because it sure seems that way. As Tim points out this morning, there’s an unfortunate habit in the press of giving more space to non-scientists who support […]
Sometime, next year, your doorbell will ring. You’ll go out, in your pyjamas, hoping that it’s not someone important, and be appalled to find an official looking fellow with a suit and a clipboard, and, of course, one of these new mandatory facemasks. “Oh no”, you’ll think. “I totally forgot to pay the TV license”. […]
Timely and relevant, one might argue, given events in this jurisdiction over the past 24 hours: MADISON – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ order shutting down daily life to limit the spread of coronavirus — marking the first time a statewide order of its kind has been knocked down by […]
If you think you’re going around the twist at home now, be thankful (for maybe the first time in your life) that you don’t live in sunny California, with its lovely weather and scenery and friendly bears wandering around the place: “Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next […]
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is not as uniformly committed to civil liberties as its name suggests. For example, it is, actually, firmly in favour of restricting your civil liberty to speak your mind on a range of controversial subjects with so-called “hate speech” laws. It does not think, for example, that somebody should […]
It’s a relatively slow news day, so it might be worthwhile to attempt an explainer at something that’s probably going to feature a lot in American news over the next few months as we barrel towards the quadrennial carnival of stupidity that is an American Presidential Election: OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time! https://t.co/vW19NbYXw6 — […]
Instinctively, there are two things that come to mind with a story like this: First, lock them up and throw away the key. 23 #Buzzards #poisoned with banned neurotoxin #Carbofuran in Co. #Cork. The biggest #WildlifeCrime ever documented in the State. This required a strong and prompt response from the National Parks @josephamadigan @DeptAHG @gardainfo […]
That’s all we need now, our old friends the Banks coming with the begging bowl. Which they will be, if things continue in this vein: Bank of Ireland slid into a loss in the first quarter as the Covid-19 crisis led to the group taking a €266 million loan impairment charge and racking up an additional […]
According to the HSE, all screening for Breast and Cervical Cancers was suspended because of the Coronavirus on March 30th. That’s five weeks ago. In Ireland, there are approximately 3,100 new cases of Breast cancer every single year. Using simple maths, therefore, you would expect there to be something like 62 new cases of Breast […]
On the one hand, this is excellent. As an ex-smoker, I’ve always wanted the excuse to go down and get 20 camel blues from the local shop. And now, for the first time in my life, I can tell my mother I’m doing it for the good of my health: Frontline health workers and patients […]
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, of course. If someone won’t tell the authorities where they’re going to be staying for the next few weeks, the state should flip the table and tell them where they’ll be staying for the next few weeks: Arbour Hill Prison. Or, if you’re not an authoritarian right […]
This film is definitely guilty of railing against the mainstream narrative, much like the viral video of two California doctors calling for the lockdown to be lifted. That too was removed.