Yanks on manoeuvres again?

THE AUDACITY. A crisis management system we don’t contribute to and a Climate Action plan we are ignoring. Jesus wept. Who voted these absolute wombles into office?? Own up.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

Meanwhile at the EU Commission in Brussels: "Wait, they lost another Prime Minister?"

Coinín dána 🐰

Portugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide https://aje.news/ioo8cy

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

What are the odds he'll be working for FG before the year is out?

It's really hard to frame improvements to workers rights as a scary thing, but bless them The Economist will give it a shot. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Chaser bsky.app/profile/weir...

Journalist: "What do you say to reports that you were aware these deportation airplanes stopped in Shannon?" Micheál Martin & Simon Harris, in unison: "That's an absolutely reprehensible assertion, how dare you, what a repugnant claim, you're not giving us any credit for the work we've done"

@dieworkwear.bsky.social post a few minutes ago making sense now

Wow. Don’t want to hear another “good billionaire” or “they were such nice kids” stories about the Stripe boys. Sitting down for a 2 1/2 hours(?!?) interview with Elon Musk and not challenging him on his political ideology, racism, the death toil from Doge +++ is just moral cowardice…

The far-right don’t win when they win elections. They win when centrist parties like Fianna Fáil adopt their policies to suit their narrative. The Social Democrats will continue to push against far right politics moving to the centre – no matter what.

I have had dinners with private equity people through work and the bar for charm is on the floor. Money people are frequently boring and often kind of stupid outside the field of turning a pile of money into a bigger pile of money.

Mandelson couldn't get laid at 2:45AM in The George on a Bank Holiday

"Mandelson's witty charm" "Epstein's easy charm" Imagine your social life being so poor and your pool of friends so limited that you thought these blatantly obvious creeps and snipey gossips were charming. I meet people more charming at the supermarket checkout every day

This happened also just before the Paris ‘24 games

The UN's top man wrote a letter to member states warning of imminent "financial collapse". RTÉ Global Security Reporter Yvonne Murray looks at why the UN is in such dire finanical straits

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Few more Italian lessons needed for Mariah at the Instituto #milanoCortina #winterolympics

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

Any time we hear from Micheál lately, it's just been to tone-police members of the opposition. It's giving Joey discovers the thesaurus in Friends

LOL, Unionists really are the weakest, most pathetic people on these Islands. Is there anything ever said by the DUP ever that isn't absolute clown shit? Responses like this mean we need to call it Derry even more.

The Brits. Never Not At It 🖕 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4eae576...

Exporting crops during a famine

If the guards' claim is true, it's another cringe instance of the state cowering before a rogue company that has repeatedly informed me posting pro-Nazi content hasn't broken its "Hate Policies". (AND whose owner was begging Jeffrey Epstein to take him to his peado island)

Micelín getting cranky…for the umpteenth time this week

Irish media facilitated yet another both-sidesing when there is no ‘debate’ to be had, only the doing to be done.

“If we tax billionaires they would not be able to make job-creating investments!”

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

Ireland’s poodles.

As our EU partners step in to fill the gaps in Social Media moderation we do nothing. Telling. Our government does not have our back, from the commute to work, childcare, elder care, flood free streets to our time online…FFFG and the Rural Nazis care not a jot for us, or our quality of life.

J K Rowling invites paedophile to children's show 6 years after he was convicted for trafficking children for sex This invitation was found in Epstein files www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Cannot be stressed enough that there is a crucial and fundamental aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein story that directly corresponds with the Jimmy Savile story, to wit: Everybody knew.

I love that the Paris prosecutor's office asked for Elon to come in for an interview on 4/20.

About 403 jokes I can insert here. But if this article finds its way to you, it’s a TREAT. (Not including the link for obvs reasons. I don’t want to be on a list 😅) Yes the word Sodomy (natch) lurks in the verbiage. Also the immortal ‘overrun by Gays and Lebanese’ line. #speirghorm #irishpolitics

Oh well! To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”. DCC spent €350,000. Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020. And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job

Conservative talking heads trying to talk down a bank holiday which celebrates a saint, and for some a goddess, and the start of spring, doesn't surprise me one bit. They wear their supposed ignorance as a badge of honor. Honestly it's best to ignore them.

Disappointing but hardly surprising. Places Ireland firmly in the ‘Trump whisperer’ camp and signals Irish vulnerabilities. Seriously weakens us in EU. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Might be time Europe insisted on Americans proving that they are vaccinated as a condition of entry, or this could get out of hand pretty sharpish. There's already measles outbreaks all over the shop.

Ronan McGreevy once blocked me after I asked how Breda “so Catholic I had to home school my *Catholic children* in Ireland” O’Brien had any business writing a column complaining about how Muslim migrants didn’t do enough to integrate in our Society…

I’m just a cis straight white middle aged man who happens to work in disinformation and I am *exhausted* by the efforts to normalise British transphobia in Ireland in the last half decade +++ Fuck knows how trans people put up with it..

There’s maybe a few thousand trans kids in the Republic of Ireland, but each week Irish papers pay a bunch of columnists who dedicate a large part of their writing trying to make these kids lives absolutely miserable.

De mighty kingdom. I believe I have either windburn or sunburn 🥵