One of the interesting and worrying trends in the USA at the moment is its political polarisation. This is of course not unique to that country, but there is some evidence that the political divide is becoming increasingly reflected in an economic and geographic one. That is, people are becoming less likely to be living […]
The following is a transcript of a speech given by the author at the UCD Law Society debate ‘This house would reelect Trump in 2020’. Good evening everyone. It’s a pleasure to be back in UCD debating again. I must say my experience of the political views of this society are very different from those […]
Will we also in time see taxpayer-funded walk-in centres for the victims of the trans ideology, offering cold comfort years after the irreversible, life-changing event?
An expert witness has told a San Francisco court that where fetal hearts are used in research they are harvested from living babies. The shocking evidence was given by Dr. Theresa Deisher on the last day of the preliminary hearing of charges against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt who have been charged with […]
The definition of mercy killing is very elastic, as two recent cases in England demonstrate. In the first, 53-year-old Robert Knight was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his mother, 79-year-old June. June had Alzheimer’s disease and was being given end-of-life care in a nursing home. Robert found his mother’s suffering […]
Actor Brad Pitt has said that he “clings to religion” in an interview with GQ magazine. The star of the newly-released Ad Astra said that he had “gone through everything” in searching for connection. “Like, I cling to religion,” he said. “I grew up with Christianity. Always questioned it, but it worked at times,” he told GQ. […]
Last month it was reported that US President Trump had “with varying degrees of seriousness” spoken about the idea of the US buying Greenland [i] – an idea which did not fare well, but which briefly placed the island centre stage. There followed a very large increase in searches for flights to Greenland, and such […]
Journalist Christina Patterson reveals that at age 55, despite never having fulfilled her desire to have children, ‘she came to embrace just how rich and full her life could still be’ (‘How I learnt to love life without kids’, Telegraph, September 17, 2019). Her remarks come in World Childless Week, set up in 2017 with […]
This is a fascinating tweet from the European Parliament’s Chief Brexit Negotiator: The @Europarl_EN will never accept the UK can have all the advantage of free trade, and not aligning with our ecological, health & social standards. We are not stupid! We will not kill our own companies, economy, single market. We will never accept […]
Tim Jackson says we must learn from past mistakes.
Last week, Gript reported the shocking news that the bodies of more than 2,000 preborn babies had been found in the residence of Ulrich Klopfer, a doctor who had performed abortions in South Bend, Indiana. Klopfer, who previously ran three abortion clinics, had been forced to close his centres when the Indiana Medical Licensing Boarded […]
America’s opioid epidemic is not going away. It is affecting men, women, children and even new-born babies and the health of the next generation of Americans. Its demographic is non-Hispanic white Americans, Native Americans and the working class, and it is shortening life expectancy for the first time in a century. As Nicholas Eberstadt wrote back […]