This is why Cork Airport is the best in Europe. You can get there 50 mins before the flight and still feel like you're early, and be in the car 10 mins after landing.

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I mean, of course they don't (and the actual video doesn't really say they do either), but they don't let that get in the way of trying to get views...

Farage going full racist "go back to where you came from" with his Facebook ads today.

Think these probably go against Meta's hateful speech policy (which still exists!), but isn't it pretty close to the line on inciting racial hatred? It's being broadcast widely, it's obviously crafted and the video is a few weeks old?

Bloody Instagram, sending me unsolicited pics of a massive organ.

So, about 28 years ago I got an email from a guy asking if my band wanted to put together a website and have it on his domain with loads of other like-minded bands. It's called brainwashed.com and it's now been going 30 years! Pretty cool it still exists.

My over-confident prediction is that, apart from some financial/bitcoin scams, they will find between none and none.

First time I've seen a Sun link in years. "Donald Trump's super soaraway favourite paper!" The comeback is on!

And what do you know... www.ft.com/content/7fd5...

There was some debate about the value of certain types of polling on here earlier in the week. This type is known as "clickbait trash".

So far, it's the *only* candidate-specific ad they've run too. I might have seen if anyone else wanted a go first, but what do I know, I don't run the campaign operation for a major political party.

I think this just fails on one test - would the winners of an election, who'd been judged to have lied during the campaign, pay the required fine and continue the system? Of course not.

Just reading an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill that would establish a panel to determine whether political ads making "factful" claims are true or not. I really don't think this would work (it shouldn't even it be tried). bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/s...

Sharp intake of breath.

I think there are a vanishingly small number of people who would choose to do this, and it's probably worth asking CCHQ if it was them trying to manipulate the system.

See the Reform energy bills competition winner...

Interesting photo choice.

I think social media is making many people unhappy and dissatisfied. The news used to bring you "I'm lucky that's not me", but social, particularly video, does the opposite.

Historically, they aren't particularly big spenders on digital ads, but the SNP are investing heavily this time ahead of next month's Holyrood election. E.g. currently outspending Reform 15:1 (Labour always top the list).

First met @jamesrball.com doing work covering Facebook ads, and now... he's become a Facebook ad.

Only just getting round to the New Yorker piece on Altman over lunch, and again, it remains unclear to me why Americans are just so chill about the way their political and economic superclass routinely behaves.

Have they considered turning on the radio?

When your campaign slogan is "Get Starmer Out", this is exactly the sort of genius political move you pull.

"Hi, is that KPMG? I'd like to speak to someone about how you can help use AI to combat emerging cybersecurity threats to my business. Can you put me through to a consultant?"

The Gardai have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

My word Coachella just looks worse and worse each year. A Fyre Festival with logistics.

I did political ads coverage of 2018 and 2022, both times when "Orban could lose", so let's just wait a bit.

Guys, people are eating steak and lobster in Tooting Broadway Market.

Repayable if/when the price falls below the 12 month average I hope.

Welcome and important. All parties should support.

"Actually, I've always been in favour of farm collectivisation" - Micheal Martin, T.D.

The leaders of the fuel protests are big jeans and shoes guys.

Client meeting, trip with dad for hospital appointment, Pakistani food for dinner, then Godspeed gig. Ultimate "man in his 40s" day out.

They're a labour movement without any of the things that would make them a labour movement.

Just got a "Play golf at Trump Doonbeg" ad before my "Political Conversions in the 21st Century" podcast. Quality.

Centra 99 is up to €3! Block the roads!

Trying to develop a conspiracy theory for this sign.

Heading into the maw of the beast (the bloody fuel protest at Macroom).

It's so incredibly sick the Express posts these, knowing exactly the type of disgusting engagement they're going to get.

100% true Artemis II.

Interesting stuff!

To me, "whatever happens, the national finances are a piggy bank hanging by a thread" isn't the best messaging by Reform.

I don't know what "better reporting" about Trump would do right now. Seems a side issue compared to the fact that 77.5m people could see him with their own eyes and voted for him anyway AND the US Constitution being ready for the glue factory.

Trump is an EU psyop, making Republican politics unelectable for generations. US politics will look like Denmark's in 20 years. A massive success.

Kids football in Ireland, where as a coach you're still totally free to have a smoke on the touchline. Magnificently terrible.

Oh No I Spent Too Much At The Garden Centre Again - a middle aged autobiography.

Anthony Gordon is trying to wrestle the title of Prince of Mitteleuropa from Dominic Szoboszlai.

Definitely worth a read. I know it's only a minor part of it, but Meta and Google's decision to pull out of political ads seems to have further tilted the online field towards Orban. Thankfully it looks likely he'll lose regardless.

*Checks the bios of the other four Green MPs and wonders if Hannah Spencer is actually in the wrong party?*