The public might be forgiven for thinking that the state had bought their silence on a matter of public interest.
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Those of us who opposed this bill made a good and effective argument based on rationality, logic, and an ability to persuade the public that we were correct.
The West is increasingly engaging in a form of “quiet censorship,” Inger Enkvist says.
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.”
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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.