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Both Twitter and Facebook have seen sharp falls in their share price as the controversy over Big Tech muzzling Donald Trump continues. Twitter plunged almost 9% since it banned the U.S. president on Friday, and embarked on what conservatives described as a “purge” of users, with many others leaving the platform in protest. Facebook slumped more than […]
This is now the fourth draft of this article. It is the fourth draft, because in the first three drafts, I had to be very careful what I said. That is because, in this new world that’s emerged over the weekend, you have to be very conscious, on the right, that you’re arguing with one […]
It really is remarkable, how little these big tech companies understand about the way that people who believe in conspiracies think. If you ban discussion of something, the average true believer doesn’t suddenly wake up and realise that they might have been wrong. No. It’s evidence that big tech is part of the cover-up. Here’s […]
PODCAST: Listen to John Aidan Byrne, Irish commentator based in New York, interview Paediatrician Dr. Irwin Redlener, on his new book The Future of Us His approach is always subtle; his banter is casual and absent any pressure to respond. But when renowned pediatrician and children’s advocate Dr. Irwin Redlener casually asks […]
Massive crowds have thronged Washington DC for a ‘Million MAGA March’ as supporters of President Donald Trump continue to call for an audit of the November 3rd election. The President has not yet conceded the closely fought election, though most media outlets have called it for the Democrat candidate, Joe Biden. The landslide for Biden […]
In the week since American voters went to the polls, most things about the result have become clear, and a few things remain outstanding. Joe Biden has been declared, by the media, Democrats, and more than a few Republicans, to be the President-Elect. He has spent the last few days beginning to assemble an administration, […]
BEN SCALLAN: With US election day behind us, Irish mainstream politicians have spent the last week doing what they do best – being petty and embarrassing Ireland on the world stage. “Would Varadkar rather insult Trump than save the Irish economy?”: https://www.facebook.com/580763859048353/videos/639432636611084 #gript
Sometimes it’s in moments of triumph that a person’s real character is revealed. For some Democrats in the US, vengeance is always the first item on the agenda. McCarthyism had nothing on these people and their new definition of un-American activities. First up, of course, was Democratic Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of a host of well-heeled political operatives […]
To be fair, they didn’t say the first bit. But it’s hard to argue that politics didn’t influence the timing, for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But first, the news: As I type these words, stock markets are surging globally. And why wouldn’t they? A 90% effective Coronavirus vaccine means, well, the end of the […]
A stark image here, via Gavan Reilly: pic.twitter.com/QxyaTuWiLy — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 7, 2020 This is, of course, an absolutely terrible development, but most people seem incapable of understanding why. That’s largely because attitudes to Trump fall into two camps, and they are almost irreconcilable. The first camp includes almost every Irish journalist, and […]
One of the noticeable aspects of the Trump campaign, which Irish people would not have noticed inside the echo chamber of the lazy and biased reporting of RTÉ and other D4 emigres in Washington, was the prominence of non-white people among Republican candidates and supporters of the President. When it seemed that things were going […]
What will change over the next day or two? Who can say? Will we wake up to the smile of a victorious Joe Biden (likely)? A chastened and contrite Donald Trump (unlikely)? A messy and disputed election (O, please, God, no!)? What will not change is the groupthink at America’s leading newspaper, The New York Times. […]
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