Yesterday, the hashtag #BeKind was trending on Twitter, closely followed by the name Rónán Mullen. Senator Mullen is a pro-life politician who normally gets pretty nasty abuse from the liberal left on Twitter. Perhaps, I thought, the tragic death of Caroline Flack, who was tormented by vicious trolls on social media and the tabloids before dying […]
Euthanasia and assisted suicide in prison is always a controversial issue, even when they are legal. Informed consent is difficult to verify; the prisoners are evading their debt to society. The cost of maintaining inmates may decrease but voters may be horrified by utilitarian policies. Nonetheless, Switzerland has decided to allow prisoners to request assisted suicide. […]
Former police officer Harry Miller has successfully challenged the use of Hate Crime Operational guidelines, issued by the College of Policing in 2014 and followed by police forces nationally; a Judge found they had been ‘unlawfully used to interfere with Mr Miller’s freedom of speech’ when he was visited by a policeman to question him […]
A couple of weeks ago we discussed different strategies that European countries are taking to increase their birth rates and thus their natural population growth. Most European countries have very low birth rates and are relying on migration to keep their populations from declining. Some countries have tried cash incentives or tax breaks for parents, others have […]
In the aftermath of an election, it’s natural that all the attention is focused on those who got elected and their haphazard attempts to form a government, or more accurately, to avoid forming a government. It’s less newsworthy to talk about the political futures of those who did not get elected at all, but that […]
In our hyper-stimulated world, where all sorts of products and people are vying for our attention, we would surely be better off without this toxic relationship.
The Provincial and Federal governments in Canada need to amend their euthanasia laws quickly. They have to meet a March 2020 deadline set by last year by Quebec Superior Court Justice Baudouin who ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny Canadians the right to die unless their deaths were “reasonably foreseeable”. Amongst other issues, lawmakers […]
As an expert in hormone therapy, O’Shea has been privy to some of the most heart-wrenching cases of post-operation regret among transgender patients, with some dying by suicide and others undergoing difficult reversal surgery, hormonal treatment and prolonged counselling.
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Following the recent UK general election all 650 MPs were asked to sign a declaration agreeing to adhere to the following International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism: “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals […]
The demographic news from Italy remains bad. It has in fact got worse; so bad that the President, Sergio Mattarella, has recently described it as a “problem that concerns the existence of our country”. When the head of state of your country comes out and says that the lack of babies in your country is an existential […]
In Ireland we like to name our coalition Governments – from 1994 to 1997, we famously had the “rainbow Government”, led by John Bruton. This week, Sinn Fein were talking about “a left coalition” comprising themselves and every other assorted left winger in Leinster House – sort of a Marxist pick-n’mix box of chocolates, where, […]