If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this pandemic, it’s that many ideas initially written off as “conspiracy theories” were actually just spoilers. Now, in 2022, Europe is facing growing calls from governments and health authorities for legal vaccine mandates. Recently EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen called for the bloc to move towards such […]
In most of the rest of the English speaking world, the definition of an incidental case is “somebody who was admitted to hospital for a reason other than covid 19”. In Ireland, the definition is different.
Will it be 17,000? 20,000? 40,000? More, less? Do the numbers even matter? Nobody in official Ireland seems to care.
In other words, you can move around freely, but only if it is in a good cause.
Theory by Desmut
RTE is supposed to cover Irish News. Very often, it seems to see its role as covering up Irish News
And so, isn’t it fair to ask: What if the science at the start of the pandemic was actually right, and we’ve been getting it wrong ever since?
To the extent that there are differences, they are differences of tone, not of approach.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Already, those who grudgingly accepted the vaccine passport as a temporary measure are willing to – less grudgingly – accept it as a permanent compromise. Was there ever, in human history, a better example of the slippery slope in action?
In an effort to soften the unpopular impact of carbon taxes, the green political lobby have coined the terms “Climate Justice” and “a just transition”. Without explaining how this new money generated from all the opportunities of this “just transition” gets into the hands of ordinary people, the political class hint that a transition to […]
In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.