Which racial group is most likely to be killed by police in the United States? It’s not African-Americans, it’s Native Americans. Native Americans are less than one percent of the nation’s population but make up about two percent of police killings. Some of them have been dramatic. The Great Falls Tribune, a newspaper in Billings, Montana, […]
A recent media item reported on a €20 million investment in social housing through the iCare charity which says that it will potentially cover the costs of building 165 homes. The money was sourced from 52 Chinese business people who are seeking to obtain Irish visas through the Immigrant Investor Programme. The programme allows non […]
6,666 babies had their lives ended by abortion in the first year of the abortion legislation introduced for 2019 by Simon Harris, new figures released today show. Pro-life advocates said the numbers were “horrific” and showed a huge increase in the number of abortions taking place on Irish women. In the twelve months to December […]
Last Friday 26th June marked the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, the document which established that organisation. To grasp the significance and character of the Charter, it is necessary to look at some of its key provisions, to discover the principles it lays down and the future of […]
Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, says she has received more than 3,000 emails of support, after she defended the right of women to assert that biological sex matters, despite a manufactured backlash that is still being hyped by media reporting and a social media attack campaign. Rowling spoke out again on Twitter at the weekend, […]
We already knew or should have known that we have the worst form of government ‘except for all the alternatives that have ever been tried’, as Winston Churchill put it. Sometimes it works better than other times. Sometimes, it is not the concept itself that is found wanting but the manner of its application. But […]
The first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday indicated that Andrzej Duda who has the support of the governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) is set for a comfortable victory in the second round on July 12. That is despite the hopes of pro EU parties in the other member states, and indeed a […]
White ladies: I hope you’re ready to repent for ever having ever worn fake-tan, for it is surely a subtle micro-aggression to appropriate that which is not yours (dark skin).
Since 2014, Ireland has been what is termed a ‘net contributor’ to the European Union’s annual budget (Multiannual Financial Framework). That is, we now put in more cash than we receive back. Based on the principle that you should contribute more to the budget pot if you can afford it, this is not automatically a […]
There are times when I have to pinch myself, when I read the concerns of journalists as expressed in our mainstream media, about the interaction between religion and politics in Ireland – and contrast it with the actual relationship between religion and politics in this country, as evidenced by social surveys. A recent survey, carried […]
If a week is a long time in politics then Sinn Féin must be feeling that anytime with coronavirus is an eternity – and an eternity during which the party went from hero to zero in the blink of an eye. Back in February, which now seems like a lifetime ago, Sinn Féin were understandably […]
One of the aspects of the 2018 referendum which Jonathon Van Maren’s book Patriots recalls is the extraordinary role played not only by a massively biased main stream media, but by the social media sites. Evidence from other countries prove that we are not alone in facing this monster. Realising that they were losing the intellectual battle, the pro-abortion […]