Ben Scallan 🇮🇪
@ben_scallan
Senior political correspondent at @GriptMedia • Irish journalist and commentator • Husband and father • Catholic • Son of a Dubliner father and Jamaican mother
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http://www.gript.ie 30-07-2018 11:08:59
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New piece of mine for Gript putting Irish and British elite hysteria about the "far right" in perspective. I draw on terror related statistics from Fondation pour l’innovation politique , Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 And work on the "Censorship Industrial Complex" by Michael Shellenberger and alex gutentag
"Cheap and cynical Trojan horse": Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 presses Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly on his government's use of 'child safety' to justify regulating free speech online with the EU Digital Services Act. Donnelly replied that "we have a good track record on free speech."
Previously, FF Senator Fiona O'Loughlin proposed teaching children about Native American tribal "two spirit" gender identities as part of sex education. Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 asks if she was "disappointed" that the new SPHE curriculum contains no mention of "Native American shamanism".