An interesting, but ultimately certain to be futile, move: NEW: Sinn Féin have put down a motion of no confidence in Leo Varadkar over the leak controversy. Will be debated next week — Seán Defoe (@SeanDefoe) November 6, 2020 With all the noise around the US election, the Varadkar/Maitiu O’Tuathail scandal has sort of faded […]
What will change over the next day or two? Who can say? Will we wake up to the smile of a victorious Joe Biden (likely)? A chastened and contrite Donald Trump (unlikely)? A messy and disputed election (O, please, God, no!)? What will not change is the groupthink at America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. […]
Last night, President Trump took to the podium at the White House to claim that the US Election was being stolen from him by voter fraud in several key states. Online, several theories have been floating around as to how this theft might be happening. It is worth, therefore, looking at the evidence for each […]
It’s everyone’s nightmare scenario: an electoral stalemate; two men all but claiming the presidency; and a likely legal battle that may extend into December. So much is yet uncertain as the final ballots are counted, and as some jurisdictions prepare to pause counting while the courts have their say. Through the frustrating murkiness, however, there […]
As we all know, Ireland is currently under a level 5 lockdown, which is the strictest level of lockdown possible under the current government plans. Throughout it all, we keep hearing from official sources about how quote-unquote “non-essential” travel and activities are forbidden, and how no public gatherings of any kind are allowed. Now, don’t […]
No such thing as a shy Trump voter this time’, said Mark Little, RTE’s former US correspondent. Everybody in the studio chuckled in agreement. The polls must therefore be accurate. Biden was heading to a landslide. You don’t have to be a pundit to see how daft that view was and is. This is Hillary’s ‘deplorable’ […]
On November 3rd, 2004, as the votes were counted across America, the picture became very clear: George W. Bush had won Florida, and had a 200,000 vote lead in crucial Ohio. In Boston, where a crowd was waiting hopefully to hear from John Kerry, his vice Presidential candidate, John Edwards, took to the stage. There […]
After four long years in office, each day of which brought some new dramatic declaration of a crisis from the self-styled resistance, Donald Trump went before the American people on Tuesday night and won – at the time of writing – four million more votes than he had in 2016. Republicans were supposed to lose […]
All of us will be familiar with what a PPS number is. It is a bit like a barcode that you don’t have stamped on your forehead. Any person born in the state will have one, as will anyone who comes here because it is a requirement in having any dealings with the state. You […]
In referenda run alongside parliamentary elections last month, two thirds of New Zealanders voted to legalise euthanasia, while a small majority voted against legalising marijuana. Results from a further 480,000 special votes, to be published on November 6, cannot change the euthanasia outcome and so the End of Life Choice Act will come into effect a year from now. […]
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‘Answer a fool according to his folly’, is advice that could be adapted to ‘answer your opponents according to their stated principles, rather than yours.’ It calls them out on their inconsistency and prejudice and tends to put them on the defensive. This is not what the delegation of bishops did when they met Taoiseach […]