Not especially newsworthy in and of itself, but certainly newsworthy in terms of what it might mean for Ireland: Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of April, top-selling Bild daily cited participants […]
A spokesman for German leader Angela Merkel said the Chancellor found it “problematic” that Twitter had permanently suspended US president Donald Trump.
Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, has reported that tensions are growing within the EU over the EU vaccine programme over the percentage of vaccines that are set to be given to Germany. The programme saw the European Commission source vaccines for all member states, and these vaccines are meant to be distributed to each EU […]
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
There are a number of things that are remarkable about this tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The first, though, is that it’s still up, unmolested by twitter, with no warning, or clarification attached. President Trump gets banned for dopey tweets about how he didn’t really lose the election. China, on the other hand, […]
Denmark’s national broadcaster has released a children’s cartoon about a man with the world’s longest penis.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a political group in the European Parliament, has called on the EU to be “held accountable” for the failures the ECR says have stalled vaccine rollouts in Europe. These failures, they say, have taken place whilst “millions across the continent have suffered.” The ECR currently has 62 MEPs, drawn […]
Watching the highly disturbing footage from Washington DC, last night, my mind kept going back to the autumn of 2018. On October 4th, of that year, the US Senate was engaged in a confirmation hearing for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh had been accused, you’ll recall, of sexually assaulting a high school […]
Thousands of Trump supporters have breached the perimeter of the US Capitol, with one protestor reportedly shot after entering the building.
Current mood: Extreme jealousy: The latest addition to Britain’s array of 24-hour news channels is to begin recruiting more than 100 journalists after completing a £60m fundraising that it claims was significantly oversubscribed. GB News, which aims to launch later this year, said on Wednesday that Sir Paul Marshall, a prominent hedge fund manager, and […]
The happiest man in America today? Joe Biden. At the time of writing, only one of the two US Senate Elections in the state of Georgia has been officially called, with Democrat Raphael Warnock unseating Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. The other race, featuring Democrat John Ossoff against Republican Senator David Purdue, has not been officially […]
Some of you may be familiar with the internet phenomenon of recent years whereby people, seeking to make some form of political point, choose to put hilariously implausible words in the mouths of their small children. Usually, in these stories, the children are implausibly eloquent, extraordinarily concerned about political issues, and coincidentally, hold the exact […]