Brian O’Nolan, otherwise known as Flann O Brien, was at his absolute best when his parody was closest to the bone. In a satirical scene in his best novel (in my opinon), An Béal Bocht (the Poor Mouth), he brings “na Daoine Uasaile” –the educated elite- down from Dublin, to poverty stricken west Kerry, to […]
I’m not proud of a feeling of schadenfreude upon hearing wealthy actor Paul Hogan whine about the homeless drug addicts that have descended on his Los Angeles elite Venice Beach neighbourhood. Mr Hogan feels blockaded into his $3.5m mansion and wishes the homeless just stayed somewhere else where property prices were more suited to their […]
The first record of a hurling match describes an epic encounter that took place in 1272 BC between the Fir Bolg and the Tuatha Dé Dannan at Maigh Tuartha near Cong in County Mayo. Hardly a stronghold of the modern game, Maigh Tuartha is nevertheless part of the rich body of lore that relates the […]
Lockdowns are conferring little benefit, but causing colossal damage, a Economics professor has concluded, using a cost benefit analysis to calculate that strict Covid restrictions caused 282 times the loss of years of life, that it saved. Economics Professor Douglas W. Allen, from Simon Fraser University in Canada looked at the effect of loss of employment, loss […]
A group of MIT researchers have published their findings on how the science on the effectiveness of masks is analysed by mask-critics, and they found that mask-critics were well informed and engaged deeply with the published data. They reported that: “Far from ignoring scientific evidence to argue for individual freedom, anti-maskers often engage deeply with […]
The recent ad hominem attack by Thomas Ryan, the Zero covid fan, on non-conforming scientists in a response to Independent TD, Michael McMamara, could be described as an approach designed to shut down challengers to the status quo. The above represent an extreme and small fringe group of scientists who have been largely proven wrong. […]
It’s a long-held political axiom among nationalists in the north that the demographic trend would eventually put Sinn Féin in power in Northern Ireland. Because Catholics tended to have larger families they would eventually outvote unionists, or so it was commonly believed. This, of course, contributed to the sectarian violence and terrorism of unionist militias, from […]
How is it that the state of Florida, a state run by a Republican Governor who has rejected wholesale the lockdown wisdom, has had such success in reducing Covid numbers? How is it that the same state, known as the retirement home of America, has been one of the most successful states in America in […]
A video capturing admissions of systemic propaganda by a senior official in CNN may strike a familiar note with Irish media observers: what he describes can seem similar to how news is delivered by Ireland’s national and corporate media. Undercover journalists working with Project Veritas, released two videos (with more to come) of CNN Technical […]
A strange new medievalism is about. It’s a complex set of attitudes and public penitence, confessions, and rituals; all coming from an elite class, and it has all the hallmarks of a medieval feudalism. The dukes and lords of this medievalism are the credentialed elite. Their castles and Chateau are the institutional hives of media, […]
There is nothing that infuriates social constructivists more than a member of a minority stepping out of their allotted lane to point out fallacies in the progressive narrative. So when Mercy Muroki co-authored a report for the UK government – one based on nationally collected statistics – which arrived at a conclusion that poorer white […]
Swedish international clothing retail brand, H&M, were onto something real when they declared they would not use Chinese cotton from the Xinjiang region because of the ongoing Uyghur genocide in that province. China accounts for an estimated 22% of world cotton production and 84% of their cotton is grown and picked in the Xinjiang province, […]