An editor with the British Medical Journal, one of the world’s most respected peer-reviewed publications, has co-signed an article saying that the evidence shows the risks to children from Covid-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits, including any benefits regarding reducing infection for adults. “There is no need to rush to vaccinate children against covid-19—the vast majority […]
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 […]
Undermining biology lessons?
Backlash.
The fourth season of the multiple award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale recently commenced on SBS. Loosely based (by this season, at least) on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, the series presents a dystopian picture of a country known as Gilead, based in the north-east of America and ruled by a patriarchal and totalitarian theocratic government. The premise is that […]
Scout leader pleaded guilty.
I had a lightbulb moment regarding the current thinking of NPHET the other day following two conversations with academics here and in the UK on the subject of vaccinating children against Coronavirus. You may have read my previous thoughts on vaccinating young people generally on this platform. Both of them make the same argument. We […]
Only 25 per cent of children were physically active every day.
Three years ago this week, those of us who voted for, and campaigned against, the abortion referendum, were on the wrong side of an electoral kicking. The voters, in their questionable wisdom, decided to vote for what the Yes campaign said would be a more compassionate Ireland for women. Many of our readers will regret […]
The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Skjiilstra, visits Dublin today for discussions with his counterpart Simon Coveney, and with Tánaiste, Leo Varadker. The visit is part of the lead into to Hungary’s Presidency of the European Council, which begins at the end of the month. It comes at a time of epochal […]
Pleads not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
Parents of schoolchildren using the bus were sent a text by the company informing them that all children were obliged to wear masks from today.