There is a great effort underway to try and make you feel like a bigot if you object to this kind of thing.
21 Western countries, including Ireland, have issued a well-deserved condemnation of China’s recent crackdown on free speech and the press in Hong Kong. In a statement released by the US Department of State, members of the Media Freedom Coalition expressed their “deep concern” at the Chinese authorities’ “attacks on freedom of the press and their […]
Ultimately, these impulses are grounded in fear. Not fear of the person speaking, but fear of the public.
A phenomenon which I encounter more and more often, these days, is the case of the secret Gript reader. The secret Gript reader comes to you via Whatsapp, or a twitter direct message, or sometimes, an encounter at a social event. They always say the same thing, more or less, and it goes something like […]
“Shove it”
Those pursuing Mark Humphrys do not, in truth, really care what he said, or says. What they want is to send a signal about their own views: Agree with us, or else.
Irish senators have slammed Sinn Féin’s proposal to ban prayers and demonstrations outside of abortion clinics, asserting that such legislation is “unconstitutional” and “unnecessary.” The remarks were made yesterday during a debate on the proposal by Senator Sharon Keogan, who said that this piece of legislation “may be the first time a bill has sought […]
Councillor Treanor has long been a controversial figure, mainly because he says things about immigration, in very plain language, that more respectable politicians would never dream of saying. That is also, in large part, why he keeps winning elections.
A remarkable reflection, this story, of just how toxic the Trans rights debate (if it can truly be called a debate) has become in the United Kingdom, and how toxic it is slowly becoming here in Ireland. Rosie Duffield is the Labour MP for Canterbury, in Kent. Until now, she’s mostly been famous for winning […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
Oh well.
The folks in Cabinet seem puzzled by the public reaction to the news that former Minister Katherine Zappone had asked for, and promptly received, one of those ludicrous positions that are clearly invented to give one of The Deserving Few another job. Zappone had a chat with Minister Simon Coveney, presumably on the special direct-dial red phone reserved for ex-Ministers who want […]