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The Financial Times has an interesting piece this week by Ruchir Sharma on the now-familiar theme of how Covid has made the world’s most wealthy people even wealthier. Sharma has spent two decades tracking the fortunes of billionaires, concerned that rising inequality would lead to political instability. He argues that the colossal $9tn – that’s 9 […]
Today, an email somehow found its way into my inbox with some revealing numbers which go some way towards explaining the enormous cost required to ensure the United Nations remains the toothless organisation it has become. The missive came from a Director of Personnel at the UN’s headquarters in New York – the behemoth also operates three additional […]
The 40th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike on May 5, 1981, brought renewed controversy over his legacy. Former H-Block blanketman Anthony McIntyre published a comm (a message written in tiny writing smuggled out of the prison) from Sands regarding his wish to be buried in another location than the Republican […]
Media reporting around the issue of Assisted Suicide tends to focus almost exclusively on personal stories – and often gives the misleading impression that helping a person to end their life is the only alternative to a painful death. As palliative care experts frequently point out (though their expert advice is given scant media coverage) […]
Some of the left in Ireland can see the ‘far right’ everywhere, it seems: it’s their very own conspiracy theory, fueled by a mixture of paranoia, intolerance of anyone with a different opinion, and a strong dislike of religion. All these elements seemed to coalesce perfectly in this stupid-but-nasty tweet from Councillor Anthony Flynn who […]
The banjoist with the British folk rock band, Mumford and Sons, has provoked a wearily-familiar Twitter storm by having the temerity to read a book by American journalist Andy Ngo which exposes the worst behavior of Antifa. Ngo’s book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy has become an Amazon bestseller. It’s a well-researched account […]
Last month, it was reported that Bill Gates, the billionaire businessman and activist on climate issues, had been buying farmland in the United States to the extent that he now owns the biggest amount of farm acres in America. Gates, who is one of the richest people in the world, has quietly bought up 242,000 acres of […]
“I’m a hostage, and this villa has been converted into a jail, all the windows are barred shut.” “I was told I would never see the sun again”. Last night, BBC’s Panorama aired a disturbing programme featuring the secretly-recorded video messages from Princess Latifa Al Maktoum, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed, to her friends, explaining that she […]
Millions of people living in India live in densely populated surroundings, with only limited access to clean water, and without the resources to ensure food and other hygiene. These conditions make people additionally susceptible to being infected with Covid -19 and India has recorded almost 11 million cases of the disease to date – or some 16% of […]
Josepha Madigan has come under fire for the second time after making what were deemed to be unacceptable remarks about children with special needs. In fact, no sooner had she read an apology for one misstatement into the Dáil, than she had to make a second for another claim which equally appalled the already hard-pressed […]
The taxpayer funded state broadcaster RTÉ has apologised after receiving 600 complaints over a supposedly humourous sketch that was aired during its New Year’s Eve countdown show. There was an outpouring of criticism of the clip and Archbishop Eamon Martin called for it to be removed from the station’s player because it accused God of […]
Peter Nygard, described in the press as a ‘fashion mogul’ has been arrested and charged with trafficking dozens of women and teenage girls – with offences apparently regularly taking place in his private island in the Bahamas. Nygard, 79, owns a Canadian fashion house and it is claimed he lured his alleged victims to his Bahamas estate over […]
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