I must confess, such conversations have always struck me as intellectually interesting, but ultimately very silly
RTÉ wrong on EU law
“Extremist groups.”
They had him red-handed. They had his phone. They had his laptop. They had the messages to the two girls, and the naked photo that he sent of himself.
Expect this report to be “carefully considered” until, with any luck, you’ve forgotten all about it.
Free speech
‘Pause’ on refugees needed
That figure of 1024 is remarkably close to the figure of 1000 being used as part of the Life Institute’s current billboard campaign.
There’s an inherent conflict awaiting the country between the imperatives of the tourism season – tourists pay more, remember – and the country’s reliance on hotels for refugee accommodation.
It behooves me, as a writer about politics and society, to try to analyse and make sense of these numbers for you, the public. But I’ll be honest: Buggered if I know what’s going on.
A Universal Basic Income is unlikely to solve our demographic woes
This type of immigration is in no ways comparable to the Irish moving to the wider English speaking world to integrate with people they have much in common.