Dublin migrant riots present bitter irony of diversity-obsessed politicians’ efforts | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Ireland goes to the polls as we speak to elect a brand new president. Whoever wins will inherit a deeply troubled land. Like different western European nations Ireland has been thrown into turmoil by unprecedented ranges of mass immigration. In every of the final 4 years, greater than 100,000 newcomers have arrived, making a huge effect on a small island whose inhabitants is simply 5.7 million.

This demographical upheaval has not solely led to fears concerning the pressure on the nation’s infrastructure and the potential lack of Ireland’s distinctive character, however has additionally stoked flamable social tensions. Tuesday evening noticed rioting outdoors the constructing which was as soon as Dublin’s largest resort and now homes asylum seekers, after studies that an African asylum seeker had raped a 10-year-old lady. As public anger grows, confrontations with the police and offended demonstrations have develop into frequent in current months.

There are two nice ironies right here. First, Ireland was till not too long ago a land of emigration, with large numbers of its individuals leaving to hunt their fortunes overseas. It was a continuous exodus that made Ireland one of the crucial homogenous nations on earth. Second, the partition of the island in 1921 to accommodate the brand new British state of Northern Ireland fed division, sectarianism and mistrust.

The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 did a lot to finish that temper of strife. Now, of their folly, the diversity-obsessed politicians are bringing again the discord.

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The nice England cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott is 85 this week. His has been a outstanding life, full of accomplishment, controversy and, above all, supreme dedication to his craft. Despite solely restricted expertise, he drove himself to develop into Test cricket’s heaviest run-scorer. Later he turned a legend within the commentary field and a heroic survivor from most cancers. Writing his biography was one of many best privileges of my profession.

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Prince Andrew has plunged the monarchy into its best disaster because the Abdication in 1936. He couldn’t have executed extra harm to the Royal Family if he had been a secret plant from a Revolutionary Cuban Anarcho-Marxist syndicate.

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The Prime Minister is usually derided for his lack of conviction. But the cost is unfair. Ever since his youth he has believed in socialism, and he’s now implementing this creed. The lesson of historical past is that socialism at all times leads to larger taxes, greater money owed, larger unemployment, bigger bureaucracies, decrease productiveness, and deeper poverty. Sir Keir is fulfilling his imaginative and prescient triumphantly.

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A report this week estimates {that a} third of clinicians’ working time is taken up by administration. One physician vividly described how “the suffocating grip of red tape wraps itself round every element of life in the NHS”.

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Eurostar has simply introduced that it’s to begin working double-decker trains from 2031. Such rolling inventory has been nearly unknown in Britain due to the restricted dimensions of tracks, tunnels and bridges on our community.

But there was one intriguing experiment after the conflict on the commuter line to Dartford in Kent when Oliver Bulleid, the revolutionary chief engineer of British Railways’ Southern Region, designed a practice which featured alternating excessive and low compartments.

First in service in November 1949 and often known as the 4DD, two of those autos have been constructed and remained operational till 1971, regardless of their unpopularity with passengers who discovered them cramped and stuffy. There might be few complaints like that about Eurostar’s luxurious new fleet.