Some of you will be familiar with Dr. Ebun Joseph – perhaps for her brave exposure of the ‘racist’ practises of the Galway hotel which served her with Ribena blackcurrant instead of red wine. She described the unfortunate serving staff who made what anyone could see was a simple error as ‘sick’ and ‘racist’. She […]
Give the man credit: He never shies away from the difficult jobs: The Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar has said Ireland 'definitely needs to bring in new laws around hate speech and hate crimes' and also needs an anti-racism awareness campaign. He told #2FMbreakfast such legislation 'isn't easy to introduce' due to the right to freedom of speech. […]
Can you imagine the scenes in People before Profit headquarters sometime yesterday afternoon? They’ll have been watching events across the water (in both directions) and seen how popular it is, all of a sudden, to tear down statues of people who allegedly committed crimes in the middle ages, and they’ll have wanted to get in […]
When it comes to denouncing Christian persecution in the modern world, the Irish government speaks in whispers. This is all the more upsetting when you consider how radical and how vocal it is willing to be when it comes to a range of other issues linked to human right violations. Recently, our entire national discourse […]
The latest from the never-ending talks to form a new Government, courtesy of Pat Leahy, who listens to this nonsense so the rest of us don’t have to: Talks on forming a government were continuing on Monday night with senior figures in all three parties involved admitting privately that the coming days represent a “do-or-die” […]
Increasingly, anecdotal reports and research are linking gender dysphoria with Asperger’s syndrome. The Australian recently featured a leading expert who wants an inquiry into the disproportionate number of teenagers with autism in gender clinics. Professor Tony Attwood, a psychologist and author of a number of books on autism, is not opposed to gender change as such. But […]
You may all be distracted by less important things, like the riots and discord engulfing the western world, and that’s why it’s important that those of us who bring you the news highlight the truly grave injustices that are being perpetrated on the people: Guidelines for reopening the hospitality industry following the Covid-19 lockdown are […]
There have been many comparisons made between the riots that began in the United States on May 25 and past outbreaks of underclass destruction. Los Angeles 1992 is most often referred to but that was very much localized and did not spread to any significant extent to other cities, despite 1992 having been one of […]
I have been out with the protesters, marched with them, prayed with them on street corners, and at what’s left of the heart-wrenching auction block that once “sold” enslaved people in Fredericksburg. I’ve participated in the very moving almost 9 minute silent hand raising demonstration a few times, representing the mind-blowing amount of time that […]
If you can remember that long ago, the only protesters defying Covid-19 lockdowns in the United States were small crowds of roughnecks from flyover country waving flags and brandishing placards at State capitals. Nonetheless, petty incidents like this still outraged bioethicists and public health experts. Writing in PennLive, a Pennsylvania blog, four of them, including the […]
Mark Tarrant grew up in Hong Kong and practices as a lawyer in Sydney. He also represents pro bono (i.e., for free) Drew Pavlou, a student at the University of Queensland who has been expelled for his public criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, in his case against China’s Consul-General in Brisbane. He was interviewed by Massimo Introvigne […]
In the middle of Bristol, until yesterday, there was a statue of a man who bought Africans and sold them as slaves in America. You might think, having read that sentence, that the very bad people of Bristol were so enamoured of slavery that they decided to honour a slave trader with a statue, as […]