What matters is not how much gas you extract, but how much gas you burn.
The city of Beijing is adding 16 reproductive health technologies to its health insurance programs in an effort to boost the birth rates. Other cities are thinking of following suit. Last year, the national birth rate fell to its lowest level since 1949, 1.3 children per woman, even though the government abolished its notorious one-child […]
“It would be a moral and medical disaster if Britain became a surrogacy centre”.
A theory of mob violence by the French philosopher René Girard explains much of our cancel culture
Wherever you are right now, you probably don’t have to be told that the ongoing energy crisis is simply dire. Not only are petrol, diesel and home heating oil costs soaring to unsustainable levels, but one secret government memo says the state is considering gas and electricity rationing. The problem is that serious. Putin’s War: […]
The fact is that once again, the Irish Government has made a fairly big and emotional commitment to people without considering, even for a moment, the practicality of their plan.
With the digitalisation and globalisation of the world, we now have countless companies who have truly global power. Power which, we have just discovered, they are willing and able to deploy for explicitly political goals.
No ‘balanced regional development’
Let cooler heads reign
No matter what your perspective is on the Russia-Ukraine invasion politically, one thing is inarguable: the human cost of this conflict is enormous. This is clearly one of the most cut and dry cases of a refugee crisis we have seen in Europe in years. While the legitimacy of many alleged asylum claims to Europe […]
Echoes of the “Emergency”
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.