As Robert F. Kennedy famously said, ‘Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.’ Fear is a disease that can be passed from person to person and make them behave in deplorable ways, dividing communities, nations and families. We have seen this throughout history. We have learned that the […]
London, Belfast, Brussels, Hamburg and Turku
We do not see journalists interviewing the Government’s advisors on economic policy to ascertain whether they approve of Government decisions.
Tóibín says “deeply frustrating”
According to minutes from a meeting on Thursday leaked to the BBC, UK health advisors are drawing up plans for a new lockdown after Christmas. According to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) – the British equivalent of NPHET – restrictions are needed “very soon” if the UK is to avoid 3,000 hospitalisations a […]
The only way this ends, is if we all stand together and say ‘NO’
‘Hospitalisations lowest for 2 months’
Close them now, then, and there is a fair chance they will not open again until almost February.
The state’s covid response has been a miserable failure in 2021, and nobody – nobody – has been more responsible than that than the person responsible for that strategy, Dr. Holohan.
The Covid response is basically the dictionary definition of mission creep
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]