We put out the bins earlier in the week, and I thought of all the unsung heroes of this pandemic who made sure we were safe and getting the services we needed as we stayed locked down in our homes. Even at the height of the lockdown, the refuse collectors were still coming around the silent streets to […]
The HSE has been blasted for giving covid test results to bosses before the patients themselves. Ben Scallan comments. #gript
In 2017 a Google employee in California, James Damore, was sacked for writing an internal memo in which he criticised the company’s obsession with gender equality above giving jobs to the best. Did Damore’s union declare a strike, and the Democrat left express its outrage? (Google was a major Clinton donor in 2016.) Of course […]
The fresh produce company Keelings has been at the centre of controversy on social media for more than 24 hours after it emerged that 189 fruit pickers from Bulgaria had arrived on a Ryanair flight yesterday chartered by the company. https://twitter.com/FF_Grassroots/status/1251052199276355584 Keelings said that “a very important part of our workforce for many years has […]
Donegal Aontú representative Mary T Sweeney has called on the IDA to join with Donegal County Council and others to use the facilities of closed factories in the county to make personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. The shortage of personal protective clothing is a serious concern for frontline and other medical staff as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies. Ms Sweeney told Highland […]
While Marx as the Mystic Meg of the inevitability of socialism has long since lost any credibility outside of the unreconstructed far left, and people who have never actually read him for the most part, he is still an important figure. The first volume of Capital stands as an excellent work of economic history. It […]