On Monday, October, 13, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced that the Dutch government will amend its euthanasia law to permit child euthanasia — an announcement that came only three days after the news that the issue of child euthanasia had divided the Netherlands coalition government. The NL Times reported that de Jonge said the new law […]
Like a lot of centre left parties around the world, Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand Labour Party entered the recent New Zealand election pledging to raise taxes on the rich. At first glance, New Zealand Labour and it’s leader is everything the Irish left dreams of having here in Ireland – a young, unabashedly liberal, female […]
Kanye West stepped up his 2020 US presidential election campaign this week by releasing his first advertisement, posting the video ad to Twitter. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1315766834046541825 Having established himself as one of America’s most renowned musical artists, and marrying into the famous Kardashian family, Kanye West originally signalled his intention to run for president in 2015, […]
The New York Post is the third largest domestic newspaper in the United States by circulation. It’s a tabloid, founded in 1801, and could best be described as sort of an American equivalent to The Sun. A tabloid, but a real newspaper – not comedy publication like, say, the National Enquirer. Yesterday it ran a […]
A fairly extraordinary statement for any politician to make, this, but worth reading, in the context of the ongoing mud-flinging match that is the US Presidential election: My thoughts on the current state of our politics: pic.twitter.com/oYY4zlX6ZP — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 13, 2020 He’s right, of course – it is terrible. Whether one is […]
For those of us who consider ourselves political junkies, every 4 years the US election brings a new level of excitement and pageantry to the world of politics. The two-party system in America gives the election a feeling of sports, where people across the world pick a side and cheer for who they want to […]
The recent statement from the World Health Organisation’s Special Envoy on Covid-19 criticising lockdown as a primary means of tackling the Corona virus was a surprise. Not least because it seems to validate the beleaguered positions of those bucking the international consensus. In relation to the biggest issue in the US Presidential election it looks like […]
Among the roadside billboards canvassing votes for political parties and their candidates in New Zealand’s triennial election on October 17 is one announcing starkly: “LETHAL DOSE with NO assessment for coercion required.” Below that it asks: “Is the End of Life Choice Act safe?” It’s the kind of silly question you have to ask when […]
In the eyes of many around the world the COVID experience of Australia and New Zealand has been a relatively benign one. But as I mentioned last week (here and here) New Zealand is going to have to deal with some significant demographic headwinds in the years ahead due to the pandemic. Now, it seems as if […]
Many parents these days find that their family routines have been totally disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases children are “in school” from their homes, and sports and other activities outside the home have been curtailed or canceled altogether. This means more family time together at home, which can be a mixed blessing! […]
On December 1, 2018, the Canadian police arrested Huawei VP & CFO, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, who was transiting at Vancouver Airport, at the request of the U.S. government for mutual legal assistance. Meng Wanzhou was charged with suspicion of violating U.S. export controls and selling sensitive technology to Iran with false accounting information by the […]
The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) hosted a four day conference at Great Barrington, Massachusetts between October 1 and 4 which concluded with the launch of a statement regarding what the proper response to the Covid crisis ought to be. The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) was co-authored by Professor Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at […]