“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die,” the saying goes. Today fewer people seem to care about heaven; and as for dying, the euthanasia movement aims to make that nice and easy. One thing most of us would agree on, however, is that we do not want to spend our old age in […]
The Balkans used to be the powder keg of Europe, the fault line between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire, the sparring ground for Russia and Austria-Hungary; the killing fields of Milosovic. Nowadays however, the fire seems to have gone out of the Balkans. Instead, the peninsula is sloping into demographic stagnation and decline brought […]
“Anti-euthanasia lobbyists want the public to believe in the inevitability of the slippery slope, but their fears are unwarranted, wrote a Canadian doctor earlier this year. Where better to test this than the Netherlands? In 2019, according to the official figures, there were 6,361 cases of euthanasia – 4.2 percent of all deaths. In other words, one […]
Confession: I cannot figure out for the life of me what readers will make of this. On the one hand, it’s one in the eye for west brit lackeys like me, and presumably the membership of Fine Gael, who’s favourite part of the year is when “Rule Britannia” comes on at the end of the […]
In 2020, the world has been hit by an unprecedented public health crisis, with the effects of COVID-19 being felt across every aspect of people’s lives. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations—the mission statement that stands at the very heart of the inclusive multilateralism […]
‘Clean’ energy may not turn out to be so clean A recent article by Maddie Stone at www.slate.com warns that in the next decade or three, the world will face a novel but entirely predictable problem: what to do with millions of square feet of worn-out solar panels. This problem is especially ironic because […]
Advice from a business consultant about how to keep PC from taking root in corporate culture. This week the Goodyear Tire Company had a bad day. An employee at its Topeka factory leaked a photo of a diversity and inclusion slide which listed both acceptable clothing expressions — “Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Lesbian, Gay, […]
The Democrats virtual convention was a bit of a damp squib despite the effusive coverage not least from our own Brian O’Donovan the RTE correspondent in Washington who must be due a Consular post in Andorra or Tierra del Fuego if Biden wins. Just 6.1 million viewers bothered to tune into the TV coverage last Tuesday […]
Here in Ireland and across much of the Western world, the issue of mandatory masks has become a controversial and contentious issue, with many people being divided into “pro-mask” and “anti-mask” camps. The former argue that masks are akin to seatbelt laws – a necessary inconvenience for the common good to prevent the virus from […]
Vice President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States last night, and has now been formally ratified as President Trump’s opponent for the election, scheduled for November 3rd. Here are his full remarks: Biden promised that his first action if he is elected president will be to “get control of […]
History never repeats…I tell myself before I go to sleep (in lockdown) This week has been quite a hectic one. After two weeks of softening us all up with talk of “when, not if” and “buy face masks”, the government announced on Tuesday night that there was again community transmission of the Wuflu and […]
The Democratic National Convention, which will, tomorrow night, nominate Joe Biden to replace Donald Trump, is well underway. And last night, Bill Clinton gave a typically Bill Clinton speech. Preceded, of course, by a typically Bill Clinton headline: New photos show Bill Clinton getting massage from Epstein accuser https://t.co/g6hObcblMt pic.twitter.com/lSiRoNJfuU — New York Post (@nypost) […]