You cannot create an office of President, fill it with a capable politician – which Von Der Leyen is – and then expect a different result.
If the courts start making decisions – as they were urged to do in this instance – based on how the climate in the country might be affected by those decisions, then they are no longer impartial judicial actors, but political actors.
Which came first? The Catholic Church? Or the people? The latter, surely: nowhere else in Europe was the Catholic Church given such power by democratically-elected governments.
“It is the most ridiculous piece of legislation to come before the Seanad in my time.”
Poll on referendum
This has long been central to Simon Harris’s style of politics.
The quickest and most effective way to destroy the coherence of any society, short of military conquest, is by mass immigration.
Free speech has to extend to extend even to the dumbest slogans, otherwise it is not free at all.
Women across the country who feel unsafe or threatened by this situation transparently do not have the same access to the airwaves or the newsprint as Simon Harris does.
Progressives will have to win the argument – which is something they are not doing, at present.
Also: Olympic scandal, the courts create a new right, and John alienates the readers, again.
In the olden days, we’d all have rolled our eyes and moved on. The olden times, once again, were all the better for it.