Physicians and other healthcare professionals in the Dutch-speaking regions of Belgium who are willing to do late abortions would also support the legalisation of infanticide, according to a survey published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. “Almost nine out of ten respondents (89.1%) [who do late-term terminations] agree that in the event of a […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy believes that our response is diminishing our humanity. Earlier this year the coronavirus pandemic caught Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, overseas. He had been reporting on the plight of Lesbos, the Aegean island crowded with refugees from Syria, and then of Bangladesh, which was attempting to cope not only with Covid-19 but […]
It’s clear to anyone with eyes that, in recent decades, there has been a radical sea change in the moral direction of Western society. We see this everywhere we look. If recent opinion polls and studies are to be believed, everything that was once frowned upon in the public square – from casual sex, to […]
Rap artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have been making waves since the release of their new sexually-charged song and music video entitled “WAP”. In the video, both women and a posse of dancers and guests can be seen strutting around in outfits that leave nothing to the imagination, while describing themselves as ‘whores […]
“You want your window broken? You’ve really internalised capitalism if you’re more worried about getting a good nights sleep so you can FUCKING WORK, than BLACK LIVES, you piece of shit” Portland, Oregon is a barrel of laughs right now. Looking enviously at the short-lived autonomous space of Chaz in Seattle, Portland’s middle class Bolsheviks, […]
New Zealand is an island nation of about 5 million people. It is a western liberal democracy with public infrastructure and an advanced market economy. Like Ireland, New Zealand sits just off the coast of another larger island (admittedly about 4,000km off the coast, but we live in a globalised world) with which it is […]
This month, the latest Hollywood star to fall from grace is Ellen DeGeneres – the chat show host who has long been defined by her ‘Be Kind’ mantra. It has emerged that there are a few employees who certainly feel she practices very differently to what she preaches. The pile on has been huge, with […]
Some good news on the euthanasia front for a change. From Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: On July 27, 2020 the Czech Republic government rejected euthanasia for the third time. According to an article published by BRNO Daily news: On July 27th, the Czech government blocked another parliamentary effort to legalise euthanasia… The bill was […]
The world’s most “unfashionable” persecuted minority is arguably Christian. Despite being persecuted in far more countries than any other religion, Christians are simply not on the radar of Western consciousness. At a time when the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar, Uyghurs in China and Yazidis in Iraq is being under-reported, the world has done little […]
The world population will peak and then decline by the end of this century, according to a new study. Countries with low fertility rates will suffer economically. A new major study published by The Lancet, one of the most prestigious scientific journals, presents a new model to forecast the changes in the world population. The […]
Promises, promises. But RTE is convinced, naturally: Senior Democrats in the US have claimed that Joe Biden will be a friend to Ireland if elected US president. The Biden Campaign held a virtual rally for Irish-American voters and Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle told the event that the Brexit process had put hard won peace and […]
For months now, we have been living under the fog of a pandemic that seems to stick worse than chewing gum in curly hair. We have seen livelihoods lost through business closures that simply cannot afford to reopen, couples forced to stay apart due to the ever changing safety guidelines of air travel, and the […]