The other morning, if you were up at the crack of dawn, you might have heard me addressing this very question on Newstalk. Yes, was my conclusion, and you can listen back here. Anyway, this is what prompted the discussion: Priti Patel, the home secretary, wants chief constables to make public examples of business owners […]
Angela Merkel is once bitten, twice shy.
Dublin City Council’s City Manager, Owen Keegan, is not, of course, the de jure King of Dublin. The last man to hold such an office was Ascaill Mac Ragnaill, who was shamefully deposed by the English in 1170, and beheaded a year later in a failed attempt to regain his throne. Keegan is, however, effectively […]
The ordinary people of Afghanistan – at least, many ordinary women and children in Afghanistan – are the victims of one of the worst calamities imaginable. There’s a lot of talk in the west these days about “oppression” – but the truth is, we don’t know the meaning of the word. The women of Afghanistan, […]
Mainstreaming the Taliban.
Moving deck chairs around.
That’ll tell ’em.
Annual cost of child attending secondary school is €1,500, on average.
How can you be wrong this many times and still have credibility?
Come off it.
Yesterday, as the Taliban advanced, inexorably, on Kabul, shop-owners rushed to erase any and all evidence of westernisation. Specifically, as we see below, they ran for the whitewash, to cover up advertisements showing women living a normal life: Kabul is preparing for Taliban. pic.twitter.com/h2NKF4y22K — Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) August 15, 2021 As you read this, […]
Neil Francis recently lost his job as a rugby columnist with the Irish Independent following comments he made about British and Irish Lions out-half Marcus Smith on a podcast in July. Francis described Smith as “a Harlequins out-half with a David Beckham haircut and an Oompa Loompa tan”. Smith was born in the Philippines to […]