Rent controls and their effects have never been a secret: In every country, and every city, where they have ever been introduced, the impact has been disastrous.
Transcendent values.
Collins has no relevance at all to the Ireland of today.
If we had a functioning political left in this country, one that actually cared about the working people and deprived people that it pretends to represent, Saturday’s protest would have been much bigger.
Attacking Pornhub’s credit card facilities is a stroke of genius by activist Laila Mickelwait
2,000 in California alone, its claimed
Colm Meaney continues his series of the Philippines
Paul Ehrlich’s theory about the “population bomb” is going the way of the Dodo
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
Not, of course, that anyone would ever suggest that an inexperienced Minister like Norma Foley would be being played like a fiddle by career civil servants. Perish the thought.
Roger Scruton is a controversial character, ‘controversial’ being euphemistic for not going with the flow, the zeitgeist, the establishment or commentariat position. Most famously, controversy followed him to disrupt the final few years of his life with false accusations of racism and bigotry which also resulted in him being removed as Chair of the Building […]
Unsolved mysteries.