“I’m in a whale’s mouth and he’s trying to swallow me.”
If you happen to have been reading, oh, literally any other Irish media outlet, except perhaps the Sunday Times, over the last week, you will have encountered one perspective, and one only, on the question of footballers “taking the knee” before the kick-off of their European Championship matches. It is, you have been endlessly told, […]
Biden administration accused Boris Johnson of “inflaming tensions” in Northern Ireland.
“Mainstream feminism supports root causes of sexual violence.”
Maya Forstater, a British feminist who lost her job after colleagues complained that they found remarks she had made on social media, such as a comment arguing that “trans women are male,” offensive, has had her claims of discrimination vindicated by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Forstater had original brought a case to Central London Employment […]
Right, hands up, this opening paragraph is going to make a lazy, not particularly insightful point. In this case, however, there are not many other obvious points to make, so here goes: Imagine somebody wrote this in an academic paper about Black People: Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, […]
Defeat for western powers.
Less than a quarter of Europeans support the EU “as it has been realised so far,” according to a new Eurobarometer poll. Eurobarometer, which is the official polling body of the European Commission, released the findings in its Spring 2021 survey. #Food4Thought 🥗4⃣🧐 First comprehensive #Eurobarometer poll/survey of EU 🇪🇺 citizens' views one year into […]
Trinity College has collaborated on new research that has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that died some 10,000 years ago in the Zagros mountains, provide clues to how early agricultural practices shaped the evolution of these animals Archaeological evidence […]
As a rule, Irish media outlets cannot comment on matters that are under consideration in Irish courts. Generally speaking, we shouldn’t comment on matters under consideration in overseas courts, either, but for this story, it is worth making an exception: A LEADING feminist campaigner has been charged with a hate crime for posting allegedly homophobic […]
If you have not read yesterday’s blockbuster Vanity Fair report about the US investigation into the lab-leak theory, and you have some free time today, go and read it. If you do not have free time, let us try to walk you through the big news. We should begin with the not-quite-a-smoking-gun. “U.S. government virologists […]
Anglican pastor and daughter among the wounded.