1930s Germany.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar wrote to four of the world’s most powerful social media companies asking them to tackle the use of their platforms for the organisation of anti-lockdown protests, and what he termed misinformation. Investigator Ken Foxe said that the Fine Gael leader sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok after protests on the […]
A local council in the UK has been forced to apologise after a library booked a troupe including a monkey costume featuring a bare butt and a large fake penis for a children’s reading event. The Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge hired an actor in a rainbow-coloured monkey costume with a fake penis and nipples […]
An Irish MedTech company has announced a major European expansion which will see its treatment device being made available to more than 7 million tinnitus sufferers in the UK. Neuromod Devices Lts, which is based in Dublin, says it is in partnership with The Tinnitus Clinic and is launching a telemedicine service in UK – […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has urged President Michael D. Higgins not to sign the government’s proposed legislation on vaccine passes for the hospitality sector. Deputy Nolan was speaking after Cabinet signed off on the controversial proposals which will see access to indoor dining limited to those who can confirm they have been […]
Boris Johnson’s two chief scientific advisors, Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, were in front of the media yesterday to face a grilling on Johnson’s plans to fully re-open the UK next week. The assembled media (doing their job, to be fair) were very eager to poke holes in the plan, and extract quotes about […]
Some people, including many readers, will be downcast by this, or angry, or feel that their suspicions have been validated. Personally, though, it is not something that overly concerns me, for reasons set out below. If it is necessary, then sign me up: Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday […]
105 minute time limit for dining.
The European Commission has drafted a plan to set a minimum tax rate for aviation fuels across all EU member states, supposedly to combat climate change. However, private jets will be exempt from the tax. To date, aviation fuels have not been saddled with carbon tax under EU law. However, the Commission said that this […]
Senator Rónán Mullen (Ind) has said that Sinn Féin is acting to deliberately prolong the housing crisis for political gain. The comments were made during a recent Seanad discussion of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. Senator Mullen said that there were “two primary reasons” for the failure of local authorities to address housing needs […]
Undermining biology lessons?
In 1962, President John F Kennedy committed to “an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes.” The tax system, he argued, “exerts too heavy a drag on growth; it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; it reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, […]