The scale of the migrant crisis on the Greek border with Turkey is hard to put into context for an Irish audience. Already there are mumblings and grumblings of discontent in Ireland about the number of Asylum seekers, and controversy about their housing. 10,000 homeless people, when the country hit that milestone figure, was regarded […]
While some commentators believe Biden simply had a brain-freeze, others think the former Vice President, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for 2020, did not want to acknowledge God in his remarks.
State hospitals in South Africa have sterilized some pregnant HIV-positive women without their consent, according to a report by the Commission for Gender Equality. One of the 48 documented complainants, Bongekile Msibi, told the BBC that she was only 17 when her uterus was removed after she gave birth to a daughter. It was only 11 years later […]
Cassie Jaye, now 33, was a struggling actress in Hollywood in her late teens and early twenties. Her story sheds light on the Weinstein debacle. She describes how young beautiful actresses have contracts with publicists and now the publicists find them entry-level work with the rich and powerful of Los Angeles. A beautiful young woman […]
When France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a running joke developed that it was the African Union that had actually won. This was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that more than half of the French team was made up of players of African heritage. “Not all of those folks look like Gauls to […]
A report by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and NGOs funded by George Soros.
As you may have noticed, the last three years or so has seen the UK consumed with the ins and outs, the minutiae and meanderings of some little thing called Brexit. Now, it seems as if it has really happened, and the UK has actually left the EU. Of course there is still a long […]
A video on the social media site TikTok has surfaced showing a drag queen performing a suggestive dance for a little girl. The video was posted by TikTok user Amelia Marino, and shows the little girl seated in the middle of the room surrounded by adults as the drag queen dances provocatively to club music […]
Germany’s highest court has overturned a ban on assisted suicide, introduced in 2015, which was ‘supposed to prevent anyone offering assisted sucide as a commercial venture’ while excempting from punishment ‘relatives or doctors who helped a single patient to die on a one-off basis’; the German constitutional court ruled that the ban meant those ‘offering […]
I had a quick look through Hansard and discovered that I first started speaking on this subject 20 years ago in a debate on the persecution of Christians in Egypt. Frankly, there was little interest from the Government then, but we see much more attention now, which I welcome. There is a special envoy for […]
In September, in a case known as Truchon v Canada, Quebec Superior Court Justice Christine Baudouin declared parts of both the federal and provincial laws on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) unconstitutional. Her judgement struck down the requirement in Canada’s euthanasia laws that death be reasonably foreseeable before euthanasia could take place. On Monday, the Canadian […]
Two Harley Street doctors have been suspended ‘after mistakenly removing the vagina of a transgender patient without consent’; in what is thought to be a legal first in Britain, the case involved a ‘man, who was transitioning from a woman’, who was left “distraught” after the irreversible gender reassignment procedure’; the anonymous patient ‘had agreed […]