Yes, is the short answer. The longer answer is below, but first, a recap of the disaster that’s unfurled since the US President decided to pull out the remaining American troops: The Taliban captured Afghanistan’s third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country’s embattled government just weeks before […]
Regular readers will remember that earlier in the summer, yours truly regularly pointed to Florida and Texas as examples of places which had abandoned Covid restrictions completely, and were doing just fine. It would be dishonest, then, not to cover the fact that in recent weeks, both states have experienced a mega surge in cases […]
We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
Brutality
Paddy Cosgrave, pictured above, is the founder and CEO of the Web Summit, which was a staple event of the Irish calendar for a period in the 2010’s, until an infamous dispute about WIFI coverage in the RDS forced Paddy and guests to decamp to Portugal to hold the annual event. Back then, Paddy Cosgrave […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
Screen Ireland – a public body – gave €150,000 of taxpayer funds to make The 8th
We should be thankful for Ministers whose ambition causes them to rat out their colleagues
It should be expected that Ministers do not, in the general course of events, breach the constitution.
Whats the delay?
In response to the latest IPCC Report, the Green Party issued a statement on 9th August 2021 saying that, “Time is running out, and we must take action now”. If it seems like the Green Party has been using consistent language about IPCC Reports for many years, that’s because the Green Party has been using consistent language about […]
Fascinating. The decline in traditional television has been going on for years, but one of the reasons that sport commands such huge royalty payments, in general, is that it has largely been the exception to the trend. The Olympic Games this year, though, suffered a massive collapse in viewers. Why? These are US figures, not […]