The government’s policy of choosing to rehouse migrants and asylum seekers in small Irish towns without consulting local communities has backfired badly. Ballinamore is the latest town to begin round-the-clock protests to stop what they described as the “resettlement” of refugees and migrants being foisted on the town without consultation. As reported on this platform, last week […]
LGBTQ mental health hasn’t improved since the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage.
These figures show that continued population growth in the UK (as a whole and in Wales and England alone) is heavily dependent on immigration. When, and if, Brexit finally happens then the numbers of immigrants and their countries of origin may change substantially.
“To defend Korea, Moon must go,” Gordon Chang told the 900-strong crowd packing the in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul for a conference entitled Preserving South Korea’s Freedom. The room erupted into sustained applause. Mr Chang, a lawyer, author and broadcaster, believes that the President of the Republic of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, is […]
The Brazilian conservative movement gathered momentum last week by hosting the first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in the country. Several members of President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet spoke in the high-energy event in São Paulo, which covered issues from gender ideology and abortion to the importance of making conservative voices heard, and the right to […]
The Polish general election held this month saw the Law and Justice (PiS) party led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski retain its majority in the Sejm. It took 235 of the 460 seats, on a 43.6% vote share, up 6% since 2015. The newly formed The Left or Lewica, which is supported by the despised Communist Party, […]
The backlash is continuing against the gender-neutral bathrooms transgender activists are demanding. Earlier this month, I noted a story in this month’s edition of The Atlantic, written by a parent who discussed the chaos that resulted when the school decided to eliminate gender designations for student bathrooms — without consulting the parents. This parent — who is very […]
On 9 October 2019, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris announced the introduction of a new working definition for hate crime in Ireland. He stated that this new definition was partly motivated by a concern that hate crime was under reported in Ireland. There are a number of points that are worth noting regarding hate crime in […]
Leo Varadkar quoted the newly canonised John Henry Newman in the Dáil this week during a debate about future relations between Church and State. He was responding to Brendan Howlin, leader of the Labour party, and the Taoiseach quoted the famous line from Newman that he would drink to his conscience first, and the Pope […]
For many nationalists, Sinn Féin’s craven entreaty for a return to direct rule feels like an act of treason. People fought and died for Irish freedom. Now Sinn Féin are happy to sign that freedom away in order to see abortion legalised.
There is an emerging pattern in the way the Irish Government attempts to deal with its migrant accommodation crisis, and the way the policy plays out for everybody concerned. A small town, usually one hit hard by emigration and de-industrialisation, learns very late in the process – often only days or weeks before the migrants […]
The ongoing protests in Hong Kong and the horrific treatment of mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have focused attention once again on the totalitarian monster that is the Peoples Republic of China. It is estimated that there are around one million Uyghurs held in labour camps where indoctrination, torture and murder are the order of the […]