In 2010, President Barack Obama made January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month. It’s incredible that anyone needs to be aware of slavery 157 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. But it still exists. “Human trafficking erodes personal dignity and destroys the moral fabric of society,” said President Trump when he launched this year’s commemoration. “It […]
After consulting its members, the British representative body for family doctors, the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) said it remained opposed to assisted suicide. Almost half (47%) of those surveyed said the College should not change its position, while 40% of GPs said they would support a change in the law, if safeguards were in […]
It is incredible how rare babies are becoming in the Republic of Korea. In 2018, the country’s total fertility rate (the number of babies a woman will have on average in her lifetime) crashed down to 0.98. That’s far below the rate of 2.1 considered necessary for a stable population and is about the lowest […]
US officials have informed Senator Bernie Sanders that Russian agents are trying to help him win the Democratic nomination to contest the US presidential election.
An nine-year old Australian boy with dwarfism has received a huge outpouring of love and support after his mother felt forced into sharing a video showing that he wanted to take his own life because of repeated bullying. A distressing video of Quaden Bayles which showed him crying and saying he wanted to die after […]
Dublin’s media and political establishment always has the same explanation, when these things happen. The Department of Justice, without any consultation, or forewarning, has announced a migrant accommodation centre for a relatively small rural town. Local people are upset by it. Some politicians have spoken out. It is clear that there will be some opposition. […]
In the aftermath of this website’s report on Tuesday about historic anti-Semitic tweets by newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin, Republican activist and journalist Eoin O’Murchu posted the following tweet in defence of the politician: Now a media campaign against Kildare TD Réada Cronin. Her crime? Being critical of Israel. What decent human being […]
In the wake of widespread condemnation of Government ‘“super-forecaster”’ Andrew Sabisky’s remarks about ‘the intelligence of black people and compulsory birth control to prevent the creation of a “permanent underclass” Conservative peer Lord Shinkwin says business minister Kwasi Kwarteng was ‘right to call out racism in his condemnation’ of Mr Sabisky’s ‘past remarks’, insisting that […]
Local people in Tullamore are being “leapfrogged” for housing and services, and are ‘angry and frustrated’ at the lack of consultation with the community before the announcement that a new direct provision centre would be opened, according to local politicians. Carol Nolan, the Independent TD for Offaly has called on the Department of Justice to suspend proposals to […]
I knew a woman from around Ardboe in East Tyrone whose family narrowly missed being killed by the loyalist outfit now commonly referred to as the Glenanne Gang. They were fortunate to have been out of their farmhouse in the fields and outhouses when their apparently friendly bread man who was a part-time member of […]
The uncovering of an espionage plot at the heart of a Harvard advanced research lab, might be just the “tip of an iceberg” says retired American air force General, Steve Kwast. In a long ranging discussion on the technological arms race betwen the USA and China, covering issues from 5G to the emerging strategic domain […]
This article was published in the Burkean before the General Election, now with another possible GE on the horizon, we share it with our readers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Finding it difficult to make sense of #GE2020? Going by the fact that on a good day, about one […]