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Human Rights in Ireland
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offsite link Linking Research Funding to ?Robust? Promotion of DEI Poses Serious Risk to Research Quality and Aca... Mon May 05, 2025 13:09 | Will Jones
Almost 200 professors and lecturers have written to the Government criticising DEI plans to link research funding to "robustly" promoting diversity, saying they are a serious risk to research quality and academic freedom.
The post Linking Research Funding to “Robust” Promotion of DEI Poses Serious Risk to Research Quality and Academic Freedom, Over 200 Professors and Lecturers Tell Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link WHO Finds Mobile Phone and WiFi Radiation Causes Cancer Mon May 05, 2025 11:00 | Gillian Jamieson
The WHO has found that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, smart devices and WiFi can cause cancer in animal experiments, in an astonishing volte-face, says Gillian Jamieson.
The post WHO Finds Mobile Phone and WiFi Radiation Causes Cancer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Dale Vince Says Ecotricity Has Received ?Net Zero? in State Subsidies, but His Definition of ?Subsid... Mon May 05, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Dale Vince insists Ecotricity isn't subsidised, yet has pocketed over ?100 million in taxpayer cash ? just don't call it a subsidy, says Chris Morrison.
The post Dale Vince Says Ecotricity Has Received ?Net Zero? in State Subsidies, but His Definition of ?Subsidies? is a Little Narrow appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What Does Renaud Camus Actually Believe? Part One: Is He Really a Neo-Nazi? Mon May 05, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Steven Tucker defends French philosopher Renaud Camus as a disillusioned leftist exiled for committing the unforgivable sin of noticing Europe's demographic upheaval ? and daring to name it.
The post What Does Renaud Camus Actually Believe? Part One: Is He Really a Neo-Nazi? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon May 05, 2025 01:02 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Why cleaners are more valuable to society than bankers

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Monday June 27, 2011 16:43author by SIPTUPR Report this post to the editors

Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers!

Eilis Lawlor is a UK based Academic, Director of Just Economics LLP and author of "A Bit Rich". She is former head of the Valuing What Matters programme at the New Economics Foundation. She was invited to give a Seminar on the theme of "Why cleaners are more valuable to society than bankers" to mark the launch of SIPTU's Responsible Contractor Initiative. She also took the opportunity to warn of the dangers to low paid workers from Irish Government proposals to dismantle Employment Regulation Orders.

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