@ciarannugent How can Finland have a third of the health care professionals compared to the other two.... Ireland and Denmark have 3x doctors than Finland?
I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.
@ciarannugent@ConorJCallaghan Do countries with high living standards have hundreds of people on trolleys in A&E every day? Like for like comparison needed
@Red_Hanrahan They've been doing it for decades, humiliation of the Irish military is a spectator sport among the Irish civil service, nothing but contempt from them.
@eoinyk O'Murchu "has spread more Russian narratives than Tass and RT combined" , still holding on for the soviet republic of Ireland to materialise https://t.co/vd1szdCvuc
In today's #vatnik soup, I'll introduce an Irish writer and retired journalist, Eoin Ó Murchú (@Eomurchu). Ó Murchú is a devout communist and a contributor to https://t.co/BJNIy9cq8y (@tuairiscnuacht), a @ForasnaGaeilge funded Irish language website.
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As a European, I hang my head in shame. The US has shown that if you blockade an oil exporter, they fold quickly. Europe can do this to Russia and shut down oil tanker traffic out of the Baltic. But it doesn't. Innocent Ukrainians pay the price every day.
https://t.co/PAv2auWNBl