One of the comfortable things about observing the British election is that whatever the outcome, the impacts on the life of the Irish viewer will be largely insignificant. If the Conservatives win a majority, a Brexit deal will pass which is acceptable to the Irish Government. If Mr. Corbyn ends up as Prime Minister, there […]
How many of you are thinking of getting your tween a cell phone for Christmas? Because we all know that in the eyes of a tween or teen, a shiny new cell phone under the Christmas tree is even better than Santa. And the pressure is on: everyone at school has a cell phone nowadays. […]
In an open letter, more than 400 clergy members of the Church of England have criticised their bishops ‘for not standing up for the Church’s official teaching on abortion’ – that in ‘most cases’, abortion ‘is wrong’ because ‘the unborn child has the potential to “develop relationships, think, pray, choose and love”’; in view of […]
At 4.11pm on Thursday, 5 December 2019, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 passed its third reading vote in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia by a decisive vote of 25 to 11. Only one member changed her vote between the second and third readings: Labor MP Adele Farina. In her speech explaining her […]
The important thing to note here is that there has been no “cure” discovered for Downs Syndrome. It’s not that medicine has gotten better at preventing Downs Syndrome, it’s that doctors have gotten better at identifying those children before they are born, and eliminating them: “The number of babies born with Down’s syndrome has fallen […]
The shooting dead of Islamist terrorist Usman Khan, who murdered two people in the London Bridge attack on Friday, has raised a number of issues. The fact that Khan who was convicted in February 2012 of being part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange, was free to carry out the attack seems […]
Local elections in Hong Kong, the first since the wave of protests began six months ago, have seen massive gains by pro-democracy candidates. Hong Kong media reports suggest that 17 of the 18 local councils now have a majority of pro-democracy councillors. Nearly three million people votes – doubling the turnout in the last election […]
Highlighting the experiences of a growing number of young women who were encouraged to ‘transition’ to male and now bitterly regret the decision, Joani Walsh lifts the lid on what is really going on in the trans world; young women complain that their underlying psychological issues were not addressed in the rush to get them […]
Australian aged care is in crisis It’s hunting season on Australia’s aged care providers. After numerous complaints of abuse and undercover media investigations, the Federal Government formed a Royal Commission to investigate the quality and delivery of aged care. Some of the stories emerging at public hearings have been sickening. Earlier this week, the distressed […]
Ironically for a country that defeated Hitler, it was Britain that gave birth to Hitler’s malign influences, Malthusianism and eugenics. Under these influences the Great War was seen as a racial disaster; eugenicists saw the European races killing each other, to the benefit of the ‘lesser races’.
Former Brazilian president Lula’s release from jail last week shows how the establishment seems to always find a way, no matter how serious the consequences for society might be, to protect their favourites.
Watching the British Labour Party general election campaign has been, on the whole, a depressing affair. The Party has taken a momentous decision, on Brexit, to enter a General Election with a promise to have no fixed policy at all, and to make up its mind later. It decided at its annual conference six weeks […]