
Ireland’s Leaders Grandstand Overseas While Reality Crumbles at Home
The country that lectures Europe on compassion can’t keep its own children safe, and the consequences are finally breaking through.

The country that lectures Europe on compassion can’t keep its own children safe, and the consequences are finally breaking through.

Western women going on jaunts to Afghanistan is the ultimate form of virtue-signalling.

The farcical Madleen voyage epitomised the vapid virtue-signalling of pro-Palestine Westerners.

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Virtue-signalling is not new. But it has enjoyed a special burgeoning in recent decades, not least because modern culture sooner rewards noisy displays of passion than less visible acts of virtue.

Even Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) displayed the armband—a first for a German minister since 1945. It remains unclear whether this exercise in solidarity will prompt Qatari leadership to rework Sharia law to accommodate German sensibilities.