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 […]
There are different ways in which people choose to interpret the Covid-19 pandemic. Is it simply another epidemiological “event” – one that was an inevitable eventuality of our globalized world? Or is it a pandemic which we signally failed to anticipate because of ‘bias’ in our thinking and policy making – the kind of bias […]
Polling over the last few months in the US election has been fairly consistent: Donald Trump’s goose is well and truly cooked. It’s not just one pollster either – it’s been all of them. An approval rating stuck in the very low forties, and states like Texas and Georgia, which have always been rock solid […]
The numbers are in and it looks as if JK Rowling has defied her critics in the best way possible – by increasing her book sales. Her books have been a “lockdown hit” according to publisher Bloomsbury, and their sales have pushed revenues at the children’s division of the group up more than a quarter in the […]
My background is in investment risk management, particularly in the quantitative analysis of defined benefit pension scheme assets and liabilities. To put that in English: I’m a spreadsheet monkey. When I have a problem, and if I have enough time on my hands, I usually start with Microsoft Excel. Well, I’ve had a lot of […]
Popular U.S. Bishop, Robert Barron has described the attempt to erase the memory of catholic saint Junípero Serra is “from a historical standpoint ridiculous and from a moral standpoint more than a little frightening.” He made his comments after been informed that the government of Ventura in California was debating whether to remove the image […]
It’s only been a few months, but it sure does feel like the Covid crisis is dragging on forever. Anything that can bring it to a relatively swift conclusion sometime next year would be a tremendous victory for the world, and a monumental scientific achievement. And our neighbours over at the University of Oxford certainly […]
As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not to have a baby, but somehow we live in a world where that opinion seems more educated and high-minded than the choice to […]