Miliband Poised to Charge People in South More for Electricity
23 April 2025
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
23 April 2025
The publisher of a schoolbook intended to promote diversity has apologised after portraying a typical Irish family as cabbage-chewing, potato-munching xenophobes.
Parents are furious over a new schoolbook that depicts traditional Irish families as backward and bigoted, idealises diverse families and forces children to choose which type of family they’d prefer.
Steven Tucker brings us up to date on the case of Enoch Burke, the Irish schoolteacher imprisoned for over 400 days for refusing to call a boy a girl.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are Humza's brief reign as Scotland's Witchfinder General, the turmoil in the Conservative Party (as per usual) and Ireland's migrant hypocrisy.
Leo Varadkar has resigned as Ireland's Prime Minister and leader of his Fine Gael party following his shock defeat in two 'progressive' constitutional referendums.
By an overwhelming majority, the Irish people have rejected efforts by various progressives to amend the constitution to make it less 'sexist' and more 'inclusive'. This is Ireland sticking two fingers up at Varadkar.
Stop groping the breasts of Molly Malone's statue, Dublin tourists have been told, with critics branding the popular tradition "misogynistic". Even statues are to be protected from harassment now, it appears.
Amid an immigration surge, a shortfall of 250,000 homes and soaring rents, the Irish Government has sent in riot police to Tipperary where locals are protesting the closure of the last hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.
Steven Tucker wonders whether sanctimonious, oikophobic elites like Leo Varadkar and Paul Lynch might one day develop the wisdom to stop and ask themselves: "Are we the baddies?"
Under the Irish Government's Project Ireland 2040 the country is set to welcome one million migrants, an influx that will leave the native Irish a minority within 40 years. Is the public okay with that, asks David Craig.
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