An interesting question, I think, is this: Why does mere discussion provoke such anger?
Lysenkoism
All of this demonstrates the peril in which news organisations increasingly find themselves.
The odd thing is, of course, that O’Connell’s argument that Rowling could just, well, shut up, doesn’t seem to apply in her mind to other women who also suffer abuse as a result of airing their views in public.
What do government fear?
Running for cover.
Once you become a pensioner, it is, in effect, no longer your problem
This is a political choice by the Irish Government to directly inflict economic hardship on a sector of its own economy, and all of the people who rely on that sector of the economy for their income.
Years later …
The question on everyone’s mind.
The original test act, just like this modern one, had a simple animating origin: Fear.
Triangle of Rage