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 […]
HSE chief Paul Reid has expressed his “concern” that pregnant women are, by and large, not getting vaccinated. The remarks were made after the Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin conducted a survey, which found that only 39% of its patients were fully vaccinated, and only 41% of their partners. This contrasts starkly with the figures […]
fathers are being prevented from attending for most of the birth
Mixed messages from health chiefs.
Suspicious minds.
A skin rash, as well as multiple kidney disorders are being investigated by the European Medicines Agency as potential side-effects of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA jabs. The EMA’s safety committee is now studying whether or not these conditions may be side-effects of the jabs. To date, 330 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses and 43.5 million Moderna […]
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 […]
The UK branch of Black Lives Matter took to Twitter this week to assert that climate change is actually racist. “The climate crisis is a racist crisis. #ClimateEmergency.” the group tweeted. The climate crisis is a racist crisis #ClimateEmergency — #BlackLivesMatterUK (@ukblm) August 9, 2021 Previously, the group’s original US branch has made similar assertions. […]
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 […]
“HAP rates have to be addressed in the short term…”
Screen Ireland – a public body – gave €150,000 of taxpayer funds to make The 8th
A Christan preacher says that she is “vindicated” after a hate-speech charge was thrown out – and is now set to sue the Metropolitan Police in London for dragging her through the courts in an 18-month legal battle. Hazel Lewis, who has been described as a street preacher, was falsely accused of threatening to stab […]