Before we get into this, here’s the obligatory disclaimer for the “whatabout Trump” people in the comments: Yes, Donald Trump has also been credibly accused of sexual misbehaviour by numerous women. Yes, Donald Trump was caught on tape appearing to brag about what would be a sexual assault. Happy? Who are we kidding. Of course […]
This is a strange time and a strange situation. The sentiment is indisputably true, but only in some respects. In fact, in the most important respect it is false. Rather than living in an abnormal time we are living in a time where normality has been amplified to the point whereby we cannot easily escape […]
Human Rights Watch is one of the most prominent and influential human rights advocacy groups in the world. It is particularly influential in the United States where it is headquartered. It describes itself as “roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at […]
The dawn of mandatory vaccinations does seem to be upon us, but before that happens, perhaps we should take pause and ask: are we really willing to give up so much freedom from state-intrusion over a disease that appears to be as misunderstood as it is over-hyped?
In 2017 a Google employee in California, James Damore, was sacked for writing an internal memo in which he criticised the company’s obsession with gender equality above giving jobs to the best. Did Damore’s union declare a strike, and the Democrat left express its outrage? (Google was a major Clinton donor in 2016.) Of course […]
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Ireland is literally bursting at the teems with rubbish scattered across the country. In a recent walk in a ploughed field, I picked up in the region of 150 pieces of trash in a ten-minute period, everything from plastic bags, plastic bottles, black plastic, drink cans, sweet papers, and pieces of glass. At an estimate […]
Dr Chen Shih-Chung writes on the needs for international health organisations to recognize Taiwan in order to protect global health security.
In a welcome move, the Government has announced that this summer it will set out details of its plans to ban under-18s from undergoing sex-changes, with equalities minister Liz Truss saying that the development was about ensuring that under-18s were ‘“protected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the future”’; she insisted: […]
The apparent resurgence of ‘Green Politics’ at local, national and EU level has been the focus of significant commentary in recent times. For many, this is a welcome development that signals the arrival of a renewed global consensus on the various ecological and biodiversity challenges that confront us. This was certainly the reaction of the […]
A controversial sex education programme that taught children as young as six about touching their “private parts” has been withdrawn by a council in Britain following a backlash from parents. The Telegraph reports that the “All About Me” syllabus, which was rolled out at over 200 primary schools across Warwickshire, proposed that children should learn […]
Anne McCloskey is a retired GP and is also an Aontú councillor on Derry City and Strabane District Council, highlights her concerns about the current situation. I suppose it was the sight of our Bishop Donal Mc Keown, furtively going at dawn to bless the graves of the faithful departed in Derry’s main cemetery on […]