Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
Angela Merkel has said the country could need 10 more weeks of hard lockdown measures in order to overcome the situation.
The former campaign director for the “Abolish the Seanad” referendum campaign, Regina Doherty – who currently serves as leader of the Seanad, in Ireland’s greatest example of failing upwards – is not happy with the report into the Mother and Baby homes, which was published last week. She wants a report into the report, she […]
Free-speech platform, Parler, posted online at the weekend, with CEO John Matze posting a message to “lovers and haters” “Hello world, is this thing on?” Mr Matze wrote, a week after the site, which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, was taken off line by Amazon Web Services and booted out of Google […]
Seven weeks ago, in early December, an Ireland Thinks poll for the Irish Daily Mail suggested that 70% of Irish people were eager to take the Covid Vaccine. Now, after three weeks of renewed lockdown, and a vaccination programme underway? That figure has surged to 86%: 🚨POLL🚨 Ireland Thinks / Mail on Sunday Q. Would […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that people could be forced to provide proof that they have had a covid-19 vaccine before they are allowed to get on a plane or enter a pub. When asked if he sees mandatory “vaccine passports” being brought in for people to travel abroad, go to the pub, or attend […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said there is widespread shock and anger at the sudden announcement by Bord Na Móna that it will permanently cease all peat harvesting and production. She said that the decision made “no sense .. given that solid fuels are now being imported into this country.” She said […]
Bloomberg.com has reported that 23 people have died in Norway a short time after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
In many ways, this is completely remarkable: NEW @ABC Wash Post poll: 54% say Pres Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol. He’s leaving office with a 38% job approval rating; 60% disapproval More from @LangerResearch https://t.co/nSVXCDI1bs — Karen Travers (@karentravers) January 15, […]
Robert C. O’Brien, National Security Advisor to President Trump, has declassified a strategic document, the “U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” 20 years early. The document sets out the Trump Administration’s high-level objectives and concerns in the Indo-Pacific region. The document is largely concerned with China, saying America needs to prevent China from “establishing new, […]
A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.