Here are the Blogs in the Robert Harris category.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

by Rob Harris
Data from several studies indicates that surfaces remain unsafe for longer periods, with the implication that refrigerated plastic food packaging could carry a greater amount of Coronavirus than other surfaces.
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Broadly speaking, Western health authorities, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/13/2020 6:57 AM by Robert Harris
Thursday, 6 June 2019

by Robert Harris
It was eminently predictable that a war of words would erupt with US President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom. On the 22nd of May, the Labour Party's Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry, in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV's Good Morning Britain, asserted ...Read More...
Posted on 06/06/2019 6:15 AM by Robert Harris
Tuesday, 4 June 2019

by Robert Harris
In the Yahoo Sports article ‘Fresno Grizzlies lose more sponsors in aftermath of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez video’ by Cassandra Negley, May 31, 2019, it is claimed that a video produced by a minor-league Californian baseball team has caused death threats to be issued against controversial ...Read More...
Posted on 06/04/2019 6:42 AM by Robert Harris
Monday, 20 May 2019

by Robert Harris
RTE – Ireland’s public service broadcaster has long been noted for uncritically (if not enthusiastically) adopting progressive-left narratives in news reportage, where nations like the United States and Israel come in for particularly rough and a-factual treatment.
On May ...Read More...
Posted on 05/20/2019 5:57 AM by Robert Harris
Monday, 22 April 2019

by Robert Harris
It was interesting to read that Greta Thunberg, a sixteen year teen, is at the forefront of the ‘Extinction Revolution’ movement, which has been holding economic life in the United Kingdom to some degree of ransom. To quote the Daily Mail:
The Swedish campaigner said: 'For ...Read More...
Posted on 04/22/2019 11:22 AM by Robert Harris
Tuesday, 16 April 2019

by Robert Harris
As the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral unfolded yesterday evening, many, no doubt, will have speculated upon the causes of the tragedy, given the considerable significance of this landmark structure within European and Christian civilisation.
Local news sources described the ...Read More...
Posted on 04/16/2019 7:00 AM by Robert Harris
Saturday, 13 April 2019

by Robert Harris
The story of Lisa Smith, an Irish woman who converted to Islam and joined Islamic State, has served as a timely reminder of the rot of political correctness running through the various institutions of the Irish state, including the defense forces. Not only has the Irish government ...Read More...
Posted on 04/13/2019 11:16 AM by Robert Harris
Sunday, 7 August 2016
by Robert Harris
Ireland’s public service broadcaster, RTE, featured reports of the visit to Ireland of young soccer players from Gaza, organised by trenchant anti-Israel group ‘Gaza Action Ireland’, on their premier ‘6.1 News’, and 9 PM News shows, on the 31st July 2016.
The report, by journalist ...Read More...
Posted on 08/07/2016 4:37 AM by Robert Harris
Sunday, 17 July 2016
by Robert Harris
Between 1978 and 2001, Ireland contributed significant personnel to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which were mandated to assist an orderly withdrawal of Israeli forces, and keep the peace in the border area of Southern Lebanon neighbouring Israel, after the ...Read More...
Posted on 07/17/2016 3:59 AM by Robert Harris
Friday, 8 July 2016
by Robert Harris
Since the release of the Chilcot Report, many have said former UK prime-minister Tony Blair is directly responsible for the rise of Islamic State. In an interview with RTE’s ‘Morning Ireland’ (7th July 2016), the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen reiterated his claim that the ...Read More...
Posted on 07/08/2016 7:48 AM by Robert Harris
Monday, 20 June 2016
Pierre Kräehenbüehl, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was interviewed by Colm Ó Mongain on RTE’s ‘This Week’ current affairs radio show on June 19th. The interview largely focused on the rebuttal of a Syrian NGO’s claims recently, in which it is charged that the Assad regime has undue ...Read More...
Posted on 06/20/2016 7:24 AM by Robert Harris
Saturday, 11 June 2016
by Robert Harris
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin, Gen. Rehavam Zeevi (R), Gen. Narkis, in Old Jerusalem
(ILAN BRUNER 7/6/67, GPO; shared under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)
Those that criticise Israel ...Read More...
Posted on 06/11/2016 8:14 AM by Robert Harris
Thursday, 26 May 2016
RTE, the public service broadcaster of the Irish Republic, has the capacity to immensely influence the views and moral stances of the Irish nation as seasoned commentator (and one-time senior RTE insider) Eoghan Harris has often pointed out. Due to a virtual broadcasting monopoly, the way in which RTE ...Read More...
Posted on 05/26/2016 7:08 AM by Robert Harris
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Some readers may have experienced a head-scratching moment or two, when reading a recent Toronto Star article on the “Nabka” commemoration, which claimed that five million Arab-Palestinian refugees fled the 1948 ~Israeli War of Independence, and/or another piece by the AFP, claiming that a fifty-three ...Read More...
Posted on 05/17/2016 6:36 AM by Robert Harris
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Next month’s ‘International Literature Festival Dublin’, will feature numerous speakers of a certain political persuasion – the likes of Naomi Klein, Yanis “evilly grinning the IMF/EU into submission” Varoufakis, and so-called “peace activist” Margaretta D'Arcy.
The oddity of art events universally ...Read More...
Posted on 04/23/2016 1:58 PM by Robert Harris
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