A Scottish Hate Crime Bill is being met with an “avalanche” of opposition as judges have now joined police and free-speech campaigners to raise concerns over the controversial proposal. Critics of the Bill say that vague language and a section on “stirring up hate” could be used to stamp down on free speech and criminalise debate. […]
Fresh from solving world hunger and permanently ending all wars, the United Nations has turned its focus to the last and worst evil afflicting mankind (sorry, humankind).
Hardly a surprise. There are a few certainties in life: the sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the Labour Party is always in favour of the next lefty social change thing, whatever that might be. And predictably enough, this time, it’s euthanasia: The Labour Party has thrown its support behind the […]
The Journal.ie, a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network’s [IFCN] code of principles and the only Irish media organisation recognised as a fact-checker by Facebook, appears to be having trouble sorting fact from allegation in some of their latest articles. The Week in Quotes, a regular fixture where the Journal.ie, as you probably guessed, go […]
It is a fact that yesterday, a significant number of Irish students were awarded results in their leaving certs that their own teachers did not think they deserved. To some extent, this happens every year. Yours truly, for example, fluked a B1 in biology that was thoroughly undeserved, and passed higher level maths when honestly, […]
Last week we learned that Ireland’s birth rate has fallen by almost 25% in the last five years. That includes all births registered here. Like most other European countries, we now have a birth rate well below the 2.1 births per woman needed to replace the population. In the more immediate term, we face the challenge […]
“The Chinese Communist Party now regards ethnic Mongolians as the ‘enemy within’, who are planning to incite separatism in China.” These are the words of ethnic Mongolian Boronruh Tsinrh, who grew up in China but is now studying in Paris. Mongolian rights activists have documented persistent problems in Inner Mongolia including “arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial detention, violation of […]
The greatest chink in Democratic armour however is surely the violence spreading across America, with Antifa activists moving from the inner cities to suburbia on a crusade that might now become the greatest self-sabotage mission in living memory.
In February of this year, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that an individual’s autonomy was far more important than the value of his or her life. It did this when declaring that a law prohibiting assisted suicide was unconstitutional, with the Court’s press release indicating: “The general right of personality guarantees the right […]
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For several weeks now Ireland has been in a strange place with Coronavirus, wherein the numbers of people with confirmed cases has been consistently creeping up, but the number of people in hospital and intensive care has remained flat, and there have been barely any deaths. This has exposed a real tension at the heart […]
If you’re reading an Irish newspaper or listening to an Irish radio station this morning and wish to get a brief summary of what the latest developments in Brexit mean then you’re almost certainly getting one side of the story, and getting it endlessly. Witness this extraordinary piece of “journalism” from our friends over at […]