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View ArticleWhy to be against gay marriage is not bigoted
Last week, I went on radio to discuss the contentious issue of gay marriage. It is a difficult issue for me as I have a wonderful cousin who is ‘married’ to his long-time partner in California. And...
View ArticleIreland's president is an old Marxist. But what gives him the right to peddle...
Last week, Irish President Michael D. Higgins gave a speech at Manchester University regarding his perception of an ‘intellectual crisis’ in Irish life. It was not the first time that Ireland’s answer...
View ArticleRoger Scruton defends the traditions of the Church. Guess what? The Guardian...
Yesterday’s Guardian carried an article by Theo Hobson on philosopher Roger Scruton’s new book, Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (Atlantic).Hobson asks: ‘Is Roger Scruton really...
View ArticleWhy 'children's rights' are nothing more than ideological fictions
On Saturday, the Irish people will vote in a Children's Rights referendum. Barring a miracle, the proposed amendment to the Constitution will be convincingly passed. As I see it, those campaigning for...
View ArticleThe liberation of nudity? Why there is nothing healthy in 'letting it all...
*This is my column published in today's Irish Daily MailCan there be any word in our language that is abused more than ‘liberation’? For isn’t it ridiculous to use the same word when referring to the...
View ArticleIreland's president is an old Marxist. But what gives him the right to peddle...
Last week, Irish President Michael D. Higgins gave a speech at Manchester University regarding his perception of an ‘intellectual crisis’ in Irish life. It was not the first time that Ireland’s answer...
View ArticleRoger Scruton defends the traditions of the Church. Guess what? The Guardian...
Yesterday’s Guardian carried an article by Theo Hobson on philosopher Roger Scruton’s new book, Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (Atlantic).Hobson asks: ‘Is Roger Scruton really...
View ArticleThis marvellous moralist is the corrective to claptrap
The most rewarding aspect of writing for the Daily Mail is the extraordinary people I get to meet. Few, however, have managed to astonish me more than the reader who recently burst into my life.It was...
View ArticleWhy 'children's rights' are nothing more than ideological fictions
On Saturday, the Irish people will vote in a Children's Rights referendum. Barring a miracle, the proposed amendment to the Constitution will be convincingly passed. As I see it, those campaigning for...
View ArticleThe Sextionary: A Moral Crime from the EU
Isn’t it bizarre how liberals like to lecture us on safeguarding children, while simultaneously depriving them of their moral safeguards? A stunning example of this is a new website designed by the...
View ArticleWhere are all the cowardly celebrities when real courage is required?
Where are they now? Where are the countless celebrities who, not so long ago, were screaming in defence of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot? Doesn’t consistency now demand that they publicly defend...
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