Australian aged care is in crisis It’s hunting season on Australia’s aged care providers. After numerous complaints of abuse and undercover media investigations, the Federal Government formed a Royal Commission to investigate the quality and delivery of aged care. Some of the stories emerging at public hearings have been sickening. Earlier this week, the distressed […]
During a week that saw the closing of two peat stations in Offaly and Longford at the cost of hundreds of jobs affecting many thousands of people and threatening the viability of rural towns and villages, what does RTÉ bestow on us? An entire series of climate porn during which we heard dire predictions of […]
Ironically for a country that defeated Hitler, it was Britain that gave birth to Hitler’s malign influences, Malthusianism and eugenics. Under these influences the Great War was seen as a racial disaster; eugenicists saw the European races killing each other, to the benefit of the ‘lesser races’.
As far as we know, the idea of “fact checking” was invented a few years ago, as a way to find jobs for those annoying people you meet at a party, or down the pub who have to butt into every conversation with “well, actually….”. Jokes aside, the concept is very simple. You take a […]
Former Brazilian president Lula’s release from jail last week shows how the establishment seems to always find a way, no matter how serious the consequences for society might be, to protect their favourites.
Watching the British Labour Party general election campaign has been, on the whole, a depressing affair. The Party has taken a momentous decision, on Brexit, to enter a General Election with a promise to have no fixed policy at all, and to make up its mind later. It decided at its annual conference six weeks […]
This week, police in Hong Kong increased their brutal and often violent treatment of pro-democracy protesters. Yet this is what Sky News reported. And CNBC And Al Jazeera Carrie Lam is the chief executive of Hong Kong and a tool of the repressive Chinese government, who have abused the human rights […]
Sentencing in Ireland is, not to put too fine a point on it, a sick joke: “A father who raped his adult special needs daughter while her mother was terminally ill in hospital has been jailed for seven years. The 66-year-old Munster man, who cannot be identified in order to protect his daughter’s identity, pleaded […]
The harrowing media reports detailing the brutal, senseless murder of Ana Kriégel make for very difficult reading. The thought of one of our own children being caught in that indescribably horrific situation is unimaginable. Ana was only 14 when she was killed, and the manner in which she died is the stuff of nightmares. […]
As we discussed last week, the challenge of a declining Russia is one of the stories of the 21st geopolitical century. But directly to Russia’s west is another area of the world that is suffering demographic decline: East and Central Europe. Many of these countries’ demographic woes we have discussed before, but we have not really […]
As more than 600,000 people in Dublin, Kildare and Meath face at least another four days without domestic drinking water we can apparently look forward to this becoming a regular occurrence. Apart from illustrating once more the disaster that is Irish Water, it is perhaps a timely forewarning of what is coming down the tracks […]
25-year-old New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick has won fame on social media after this week dismissing an elderly Parliamentary heckler with the ‘viral quip, “OK boomer’”; the derogatory expression, ‘which refers to the baby-boomer generation’, has ‘gained popularity among young people on social media in recent months as a way of brushing off the views […]