I hate agreeing with Boris Johnson www.wsj.com/opinion/put-...

Scum. All of them.

Unbelievably grim. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I love this piece. Marina Hyde is my spirit animal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reading this, my mind is brought back to a scholar I met at ISA 2025 who ruefully explained his vote for Trump in 2024 because the US "...just HAD to get rid of Biden" To which I should have asked, how did you think the #January6th guy would be an improvement? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yanqui go home www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Very smart government we have, very credible and serious. Burn political capital at European level for a meaningless gesture and potentially a short-lived polling bump. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"What the world is witnessing is not a "rules-based" order, but colonial pillaging. Upholding sovereignty, equality and noninterference is not optional. It is the foundation of global stability — and it must be defended." tinyurl.com/4r6tjah7

Make Billionaires Extinct Again www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is literally being done just so Muskrat can claim to be the world’s first trillionaire. No financial or business sense, just pure ego. Disgusting. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Things one loves reading about

Same thing goes for the nameless US elites, shit or get off the pot you absolute cowards. 7 million people are marching in the street and risking being murdered by ICE in the streets to prevent deportations. You are worried about your stock portfolio. Grow a pair.

Shit or get off the pot time, Tories. Either disavow her plan for ethnic cleansing publicly and vote to kick her out of the party, or resign your position. You gutless cowards. Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I remain convinced that the Conservative Party is more akin to an ant infected with cordyceps than a functioning political party. Its legs are moving and it’s capable of travelling from point a to point b, but its mind has been eaten by Farage and it’s a slowly dying husk.

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

A good piece summarising Starmer’s continued hypocrisy and absurdity regarding the genocide in Gaza

Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

GET IN MY SON

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

My one question about this ludicrous nonsense is, who is the supposed shooter, and what *ACTUALLY* happened to him. Very convenient that he "took his own life".

Yes. This. 1000x this. The best thing the UK (and Ireland) could do to improve its politics would be to start tuning out this American culture war nonsense which has absolutely no relevance to or bearing on our society whatsoever.

congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

When he’s right he’s right, although as usual, he’s only saying this to pressure countries to buy American oil instead of

This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear. This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like

Nothing but silence was the response when this happened. Still is.

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

The SovCit movement comes to Ireland, as if the country didn’t have enough problems already 🤦🏽‍♂️ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

A wee message we projected at Sziget last night 👇

This. Many, many times over.

In other news, the Pope has been confirmed to be Catholic

Really really hoping for some European leader (any one will do) to tell Mango Mussolini to keep his ignorant comments to himself and to stay out of domestic political issues that have nothing to do with him www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

I don’t understand how this could in any possible way be a good idea for Zelenskyy to approve this bill. I don’t even understand how any of its proponents can possibly defend it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

My book is available for pre-order! Very happy to get this out- it took me long enough 🤣 Thanks to everyone at @edinburghup.bsky.social, I can't recommend publishing with them highly enough! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-europea...

I wonder at what point exactly this concerted effort to impoverish and weaken the United States will reap clear, incontrovertible and visible consequences. Like, what will the damage being done now actually lead to, at least in relative terms to other countries?