Social media companies like Youtube/Google, Facebook, and Twitter are now routinely censoring reasonable debate
In all seriousness, and, accepting that there is much competition for the accolade, this might be the stupidest story of the year. Imagine being the Garda who had to take the call from an adult complaining that other adults were mean about her in a whatsapp group: A prominent Green Party TD and Oireachtas committee […]
the current ruling coalition is throwing money away to the short term benefit of reducing housing lists, but to the long term gain of the investor funds,
There are many reasons to be glad of the news which began to trickle out on Friday, and was confirmed by the Irish Times over the weekend. NPHET, it seems, is living on borrowed time: Farewell then to Nphet and Dr Tony’s briefings and letters as the war is coming to an end. Electric Picnic […]
The fear-sowing propaganda has worked fiendishly well.
On Tuesday evening, 24 August 2021, Minister for Defence Simon Coveney sent a number of Irish military personnel to Afghanistan to better coordinate the evacuation of the citizens and dependants of Ireland who want out of there. This followed an effective social and traditional media pressure campaign by Leinster House’s resident veterans—Deputy Dr Cathal Berry, […]
550 abortions a month, it seems, is not enough for these people.
Here’s a question for Dr. Tony, if any of you credentialled, press conference attending journalists happen to be reading: Why ninety per cent? Why not ninety five? Or eighty seven? Or one hundred per cent? What’s so scientifically significant about the number ninety? Let me venture an answer to that: Nothing. There’s nothing scientific about […]
The Government says it wants the Electric Picnic to go ahead, but the matter is up to Laois County Council. The council says it would be open to letting the event go ahead, but the Government must change the law first. The truth is that neither of them probably want the event to go ahead. […]
At first blush, you might think this headline relates to Australia’s inexplicably slow vaccine rollout, compared to the rest of the western world. If they can’t get people jabbed, they may well have to rely on other measures. But no, you’d be wrong. Masks for years even after 80% of people are jabbed, she says: […]
History will not be kind to them
We discussed this briefly in my other piece this morning, but it deserves a story of its own. There are two points here: The first is that it demonstrates that even the King himself is not immune to political pressure. The second, obviously, is the question of how long this discrimination on the basis of […]