In the period before the referendum on repealing the 8th, Fianna Fáil TD Jack Chambers took some flak online for taking a pro-life stance. Things got ugly on Twitter, and the Dublin West TD eventually switched off his notifications. He supported a No vote in the referendum, but after the 8th was repealed, he voted […]
In the UK, the media reflects popular sentiment. Here, it reflects popular sentiment in South Dublin.
Perhaps the most frightening thing, if you are a Fianna Fáil partisan, is this: The party is on 15%, and it doesn’t seem to care.
Cuireadh tús leis an bpróiséas chun Acht Gaeilge a chur i bhfeidhm sna Sé Chontae le foilsiú ‘An Bille Féiniúlachta agus Teanga (Tuaisceart Éireann)’ i dTeach na dTiarnaí, i Westminister Dé Céadaoin seo caite. Mar thoradh air beidh stádas oifigiúil ag an nGaeilge sa tuaisceart den chéad uair. Gealladh an reachtaíocht seo chomh fada siar […]
Continuing his series on life in the Philippines
Assumptions.
The media are awash in stories about things like TikTok encouraging teen girls to obsess about their appearance. Yes, that’s happening, and yes, that’s bad, but phenomena like that are the merest slivers, the most superficial symptoms, of much deeper cultural changes we hardly notice. This generation may be the most heavily and intensely indoctrinated in […]
In Summer 2021 Canada had what was described as its “George Floyd moment.” This came with the apparent discovery of mass graves of indigenous people, mostly children. Estimates of the numbers buried in what were claimed to be unmarked sites ranged into the thousands, with the confident assertion that many more would be discovered. There […]
Tolerated
Again.
Why bother making the service better, asked one twitter commenter, when you can just re-name it and lower expectations for it instead?
Intolerance?