The alternative to a negotiated settlement of this war is not pretty.
Texas could prosecute parents who allow their children to change their gender as child abusers, says its governor, Greg Abbott. In a letter sent this week to the Department of Family and Protective Services, Abbott said the agency “is responsible for protecting children from abuse.” He warned that teachers, doctors, nurses, and others who don’t report […]
And who supports Russia?
Make no mistake about it: the war in Ukraine is, quite clearly, awful, and the ordinary citizens of Ukraine are undoubtedly victims in it. Right now there is heated debate in the West over the origins of this mess and which geopolitical factions are to blame. Is Russia mainly responsible, or NATO? Did Zelensky provoke […]
Media platforms and social media users have been warned to watch out for footage being shared on social media which purport to be from Ukraine but are in fact old or doctored images. As the situation in Ukraine continues to escalate, news platforms rush to post visual images because they drive more traffic than anything else. That can lead […]
‘God really does not make a mistake’
The west is not just imposing sanctions: It is waging a full scale hot economic war on Russia.
What we have, with surrogacy, is a legal severing of the natural ties between birth mother and child.
What is currently taking place in Ukraine is a reminder of why historian Timothy Snyder described the country as having been part of the Bloodlands. He applied it to Ukraine, but also to Belorussia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as to the eastern strip of the actual Russian Socialist Republic that came under […]
As we saw here in Ireland, predictions of mass deaths from the dreaded Covid-19 proved unfounded. Remember Prof Sam McConkey who predicted that Ireland could face between 80,000 to 120,000 deaths from the coronvirus? Though the death toll never reached a tenth of that number, McConkey is still wheeled out for comment regularly by the […]
At the end of the year, whoever leads Fine Gael is set to take over as Taoiseach from Micheál Martin as a condition of the government coalition. Some would naturally assume that this means we’ll see a return of Tánaiste Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach, as he is obviously the current leader of Fine Gael. Varadkar […]
That, at the end of the day, is what nationalism is: The willingness to give yourself and your life for the country you call home