December 2, 2023
Concerns are growing that the number of people supporting far-right ideology in Ireland is growing significantly. It follows rioting in Dublin last week after three children and an adult female were stabbed by a foreign-born Irish citizen. Euronews reporter Ken Murray has the story. ADVERTISEMENT Antiimmigrant rioters rampaged through central Dublin on Thursday 23 November
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Queensland parliament descended into fiery and farcical scenes after claims were aired about patients at a major hospital being forced to urinate into bottles due to staffing issues. Labor Health Minister Shannon Fentiman used her time in parliament to hit back at claims by Mudgeeraba LNP MP Ros Bates over the allegations, first raised during
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Former Liberal MP Dave Sharma is set to return to federal politics following his Senate position win. Mr Sharma won his position vacated by former defence minister Marise Payne. Sky News Sydney Reporter Julia Bradley says this is a “big moment for the Liberal Party”. “He beat out Andrew Constance, who was considered to be
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Yves here. John Helmer turns to Thucydides for a lesson on what happens when a confident superior power sets out to slaughter and thoroughly subjugate an enemy. It didn’t work out in not even the long run, but the medium term, for Athens. By John Helmer, the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and
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Yves here. Richard Murphy discusses a BMJ paper on why droplet dogma remained (and remains) firmly entrenched despite growing and then overwhelming evidence that it was transmitted by aerosols. And droplet theory advocacy is still pervasive. I was just in a meeting1 where someone put up a slide from the WHO with the first anti-Covid
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The German elite’s firewall against the ultra nationalist, anti-EU Alternative for Germany party has begun to crumble. Germany’s business groups were unified in their opposition to the AfD whose immigration stance goes against big businesses’ desire for cheap labor. All of Germany’s main political parties say they are opposed to the AfD and are discussing
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is accusing Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke of playing politics with the Israel-Hamas War. Mr Burke’s electorate of Canterbury-Bankstown will fly the Palestinian flag at its council. The flag will fly until a ceasefire is declared between Israel and Hamas. Peter Dutton is calling on the Prime Minister to give his
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Three recent columns asked whether China’s rapid rise in relative gross domestic product and GDP per head was coming to an end, as many believe (or hope). The first argued that China had the potential
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HBO’s John Oliver on Sunday spotlighted the behavior of a GOP mayoral candidate in Franklin, Tennessee, as being “entirely emblematic of Republican politics, from the local level all the way up to the top.” Real estate agent and town alderman Gabrielle Hanson has “branded herself as a hardcore MAGA candidate,” noted the “Last Week Tonight”
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WASHINGTON — At 3:04 p.m. Tuesday, Laphonza Butler walked across the floor of the U.S. Senate, stood facing Vice President Kamala Harris and took the oath to defend the Constitution, making official her emergence as a powerful new figure in California’s leadership. At the same moment, on the other side of the Capitol, the fate of
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