Below-replacement fertility is creating unprecedented alliances
The world’s largest country could be running out of people
Family want hospice
The Netherlands is playing catch-up to Belgium, where child euthanasia has been legal since 2014
A fascinating tidbit from earlier this week that I didn’t see picked up in the rest of the Irish media. From Tom Friedman, in the New York Times: The timing [of Pelosi’s visit] could not be worse. Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about […]
Truss, much more than her opponent, Rishi Sunak, seems to understand two things: First, that the economy is a weakness for her party, and second, that the culture wars are her strength.
the only sensible response to unhinged threats is, as it has ever been, a well directed middle finger.
Shia LaBeouf says that he has become a Catholic
We’re going to keep calling it Monkeypox, here at Gript, regardless of what the WHO decides. Not because we want to stigmatise anybody, but because this, like so much of the world at the moment, is unutterably stupid.
Have all the adults left the room?
Anyway, it wouldn’t work in Ireland. First, you’d never get planning permission
As lovely as it is to see far-flung hamlets of stone houses reinhabited, it is also sometimes difficult to find in their tenuous revival a genuine re-founding of the traditional Europe of which they were originally a part.