New York City Rich And Poor – The Inequality Crisis
Here is another excellent documentary on YouTube from the German public service broadcaster DW examining the dreadful inequality between theContinue Reading
Category: Health
Irish Times Platforms Anti-Lockdown Fake Science
As several commentators over at the Cedar Lounge Revolution have noted, the ideologically schizophrenic attitude of the Irish Times towardsContinue Reading
Irish Leaders North And South Are Less Than Inspiring
In a recent and rather pessimistic article for the News Letter the unionist commentator Alex Kane coined a pithy phrase toContinue Reading
The Oireachtas Golf Society: The Golden Circle At Play
What on earth was going through the minds of the eighty-plus former and serving politicians, public officials, members of theContinue Reading
Covid-19 Has Killed More British People Than The Blitz In World War II
Between the United Kingdom’s declaration of war on the German Reich in September 1939 and the latter’s capitulation in MayContinue Reading
Programme For Government: Good News For Cyclists And Pedestrians?
The draft programme for government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party commits the forthcoming coalition toContinue Reading
Ending The Lockdown In Ireland. Too Fast, Too Soon?
Though the Fine Gael-led Government seems determined to speed up the country’s transition through the various stages of the lockdownContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar’s Lockdown: Picnics In The Phoenix Park, Accommodation In The Farmleigh Estate
While it would be unfair to place Leo Varadkar’s “picnic controversy” in the same scandalous category as that of DominicContinue Reading
Donald Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine, An Unproven Covid-19 Treatment
Strongmen and their doctors. Throughout human history there have been innumerable cases of autocratic leaders whose whims and obsessions haveContinue Reading
Piers Morgan Highlights The Utter Chaos Of The UK’s Covid-19 Response
While the journalist and television presenter Piers Morgan has known no end of controversies and scandal in his long mediaContinue Reading
How Fake News And Fake Facts Are Being Used To Undermine The Lockdown
With some business leaders beginning to push for a premature end to the Covid-19 lockdown across the country, and withContinue Reading
Stay At Home
For the last few months I have found myself in a rather unfamiliar category of employment: the somewhat nebulously definedContinue Reading
UK Coronavirus Death Toll Over 41,000, More Than Double Official Figures
An extraordinary story from the Financial Times in London and one that will almost certainly be replicated in many otherContinue Reading
The David McWilliams’ Podcast #53
Another episode of the David McWilliams’ Podcast on YouTube featuring discussions about the economy, both now and in the nearContinue Reading
The UK’s Coronavirus Response. Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know
Over the last few days I have had a rather testy exchange by email with a commentator from a northernContinue Reading
The UK Response To The Coronavirus Endangers All Of Us
Incompetence or deliberate intent? That is the question in the minds of many observers as they look at the muddledContinue Reading
Coronavirus, Herd Immunity And The UK’s Darwinist Response
Can it really be true as the international media is speculating? That the Conservative Party government in the United KingdomContinue Reading
Elizabeth Holmes And The Theranos Scandal
Featured below is a highly critical look at Theranos, the controversial health technology company eulogised by the denizens of SiliconContinue Reading
Constitutional Reform In Ireland, A Success Story For The Right And Not The Left?
Like many political observers I was more than a little apprehensive about the outcome of last Friday’s referendum on repealingContinue Reading
A Pro-Choice Landslide Predicted In Ireland’s Abortion Referendum
Given the reputation of Irish exit polling, the results below may well be the cause of good cheer for theContinue Reading
Amnesty International Ireland Is Wrong On Foreign Donations
As most readers are aware, I support the availability of abortion through the health service in Ireland, disdaining the present, inhumaneContinue Reading
The Illogicality Of Being Pro-Life While Favouring Exceptions For Abortion
As WorldByStorm notes there are some surprising results from last weekend’s Irish Times poll on abortion (yes, yet another one). A clearContinue Reading
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