Tag: Leo Varadkar

St. Brigid, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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St. Patrick’s Day is near, the international celebration of all it means to be Irish. But what, precisely, does it mean to be Irish today? To not actually be Irish at all, if you can possibly help it—particularly not in terms of the nation’s once-dominant religion.

It is not so long ago that “Auld Ireland” was the most traditionalist Catholic nation in Western Europe, but that is no longer the case. (more…)

Vaughan Gething, the newly-elected First Minister of Wales. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia  Commons.)

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Wales Elects a Black Leader — the First of Any European Country

’Twas but a century ago that the British Empire ruled over roughly one-quarter of the world’s people and had control over one-quarter of the planet’s land, making it the largest empire in world history.

And then, as this son of the British Isles has repeatedly lamented, the British populace was persuaded that it was a good idea to feel guilty about such a tremendous accomplishment. (more…)

Conor McGregor

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After Migrant Stabs Three Irish Children, Ireland’s Gay Indian Leader Declares War on the Irish; Dublin-Born MMA Superstar Conor McGregor Accepts the Challenge

The Irish occupy a unique place in white-identity lore: so feisty, foul-mouthed, and seemingly ill-bred that many uppity Nordicists don’t consider them to be white at all. (more…)

Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s new First Minister.

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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Despite All the Progress We’ve Made, There Is Still, for Some Strange Reason, a Ridiculous Amount of Work to Be Done” — on how progressives keep telling us “there’s much work to be done,” despite the fact that it’s never made clear exactly when the work of social justice will be done. See below. (more…)

Martin Luther King III

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Probably due to some traumatic event in the womb or early childhood, I have chosen an avocation which constantly forces me to expose myself to things that upset me. (more…)