America’s opioid epidemic is not going away. It is affecting men, women, children and even new-born babies and the health of the next generation of Americans. Its demographic is non-Hispanic white Americans, Native Americans and the working class, and it is shortening life expectancy for the first time in a century. As Nicholas Eberstadt wrote back […]
Scottish biologist and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza. At the time, Fleming was experimenting with the influenza virus in the Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. Fleming returned from a two-week vacation to find that a mold had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. Upon […]
MUST SEE: John McGuirk slams the Irish media and offers an alternative to challenge our elites. “Nobody dares open their mouth in this country for fear of upsetting the elite. Is that ok?” #gript
For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing laser pointers at the police to […]
As Brexit comes down to the wire and with the threat that a snap election could happen at any time the Scottish National Party [SNP] is in full preparation for a snap election. As part of that the party headquarters has put together a list of those the party has approved to stand in that […]
William Huang describes how politicians in India are backing a bill which orders civil servants to stop at two children.
The most unforgettable line of the timeless 1939 classic ‘Gone With The Wind’ is the last words of Clark Gable’s character Rhett Butler. In the final few scenes of the movie, Vivien Leigh’s character Scarlett O’Hara – in desperation – asks Rhett “Where shall I go? What shall I do?” He coolly responds “Frankly, my […]
WATCH: Solicitor Malachy Steenson says there has NEVER been a war on drugs, and that politicians and media establishment figures are doing recreational drugs at the weekend. “There is no political will to end the drugs trade and there never has been a war on drugs.” “Larry Dunne, one of the main heroin dealers in […]
Ireland, as we know, has two police forces these days. There is, on the one hand, the Gardai, dedicated to enforcing the laws of the land, passed by the Dáil. And then on the other hand, there is the entity that radio presenters and newspaper reporters refer to as “twitter”, which is dedicated to enforcing […]
Hackers invaded the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit database and published on the internet over a thousand emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets exchanged by scientists partisans of the man-made global warming theory. The extensive correspondence, which covered a ten-year span, showed the scientists plotting to manipulate data so as to make the warming theory […]
In a recent blog, the head of Atheist Ireland, Michael Nugent writes: “I believe we should treat every individual person with the same respect and dignity and love.” Well, yes, and an atheist is perfectly entitled to believe this if they want, just as I am perfectly entitled to believe in God, but both beliefs need […]
Christianity would have formed a central part of the lives of both the aristocracy and the ordinary people in Britain at the time, yet the historical adviser to the programme Alastair Bruce revealed that executives were in a “panic” about anything religious being seen on the show.