Recently I addressed a group of Parliamentarians in London about assisted suicide and euthanasia. My talk, which coincided with World Suicide Prevention day, sought to address the unintended consequences of legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia in the Netherlands. One of the arguments we hear is that assisted dying will bring down the number of violent […]
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a barbaric physical and human rights violation of young girls and women and is internationally recognised as such. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or “any practice that purposely changes or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” FGM is mostly carried out […]
There are good arguments to be made in challenging modern views on sexuality, gender and immigration, but it is the very voicing of controversial opinions that is now under threat.
2FM’s Jennifer Zamparelli obviously didn’t get the update memo on allowed topics or opinions when she advertised a discussion on mask wearing on her morning show on 2FM. https://twitter.com/JenniferMaguire/status/1305518091229704200 The backlash from the wokeratti was instant and vicious, and Zamparelli said she received all kinds of absue in DM. A fair number of journalists were […]
Broadly amusing, mainly because of how the American left spends so much of its time, in normal times, accusing people who oppose it of being anti-vaxxers. How times change: “With deaths from the coronavirus nearing 200,000 in the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday assailed President Trump for playing politics with a potential […]
Trotskyist TD and soi disant, and indeed physically distanced, “anti fascist” Paul Murphy has introduced yet another private members bill to ban hare coursing by muzzled dogs. He described it as “cruel, barbaric and outdated.” A bit like socialism you might say. Of course his concern for small furry chaps might be taken with more […]
“What simpering, shallow wokeness”, wrote one critic yesterday. “Possibly the worse tweet ever sent by an Irish public representative.” Can anyone, in good faith, disagree? Keeping 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and 'Of Mice and Men' on the JC syllabus isn't worth the hurt they are causing. Dept should see sense here. "Government urged to drop […]
After months of enforced closure, Ireland’s small town/rural pubs are set to re-open next Monday 21st September. Pubs in the capital will remain in limbo – unless of course they are serving a virus-busting plate of chicken and chips for €9. While the recently announced five level plan “Living With Covid-19” is an improvement on […]
Large corporations are exerting more and more political pressure and control over their employees’ basic human freedoms in attempts at virtue-signalling. Yet, their own business interests may display blatant hypocrisy. Woke capitalism, like the #MeToo movement before it, is in self-destruct mode. You may recall that last year, Disney threatened to boycott Georgia if the state […]
Perhaps it’s time to start seeing the increase in cases as part of the journey towards herd immunity and finally overcoming a very difficult year.
The headline in other newspapers is that he resigned, of course, but even their coverage has to tell you what really happened, down in about paragraph five: Dr Martin Feeley’s views that coronavirus is “much less severe” than the flu for most people and that restrictions were no longer justified caused a furore after they […]
The US Democrats’ presidential election campaign is a fine balancing act of managing a double ticket. Joe Biden is undeniably not in control of his campaign. Kamala Harris and her backers are the organ grinders. Behind them stand the forces of radical feminism, wokeism and leftist, liberal agencies like Planned Parenthood. These forces are challenged […]