The US, absent a course correction, is on course for an inevitable fiscal crisis.
The focus of state policy needs to be on making women feel like they are secure enough to have children. But isn’t that first, and foremost, the job of the men in their lives?
When your culture has elements within it that are evidently harmful and self-destructive, it is not the duty of the state to try and mitigate that.
The problem for a society without the death penalty is that it is left with only the ordinary responses to an extraordinary crime.
That the Irish Government would prioritise gender equality right up until the moment it risked denying a white middle aged Fianna Fáil man a big job is undeniably funny.
Fiction writing is a medium inherently unfriendly to the conservative counter-culturalist.
There is now a very real prospect of a hot war between Hezbollah and Israel, involving ground troops. What is the Irish mission, in that context?
In the olden days, we’d all have rolled our eyes and moved on. The olden times, once again, were all the better for it.
Feminists might think they’ve cracked the establishment in Ireland, but you can read all the Germaine Greer you want, ladies – you’re still never getting between a Fianna Fáiler and a cosy backroom deal to hand out the big jobs.
It bears remembering that if Harris were to increase her support amongst women by just 4 or 5% over the next few months, this election would be over, and she would be comfortably elected.
My colleague Ben asked the Minister, yesterday, how she could look the Irish people in the face and defend this situation. The answer, of course, is that she cannot, and she will not try to.
When the mainstream media abdicates its role, there’s always someone there to pick up the pieces.