What does Trump 2.0 mean for tax multilateralism? In a new paper in the British Tax Review, I look at why (and how) international tax cooperation has proved surprisingly resilient in an age of multilateral breakdown. Open access: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The five areas of focus in the SI are: 1: Sourcing financial data. 2: Improving ‘follow the money’ methods. 3: Accounting as rationalization machine. 4: Creating alternative accounts. 5: Public/Private financial hybridization. Whole SI can found found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📢Who decides where value is created? Value creation is central to how multinationals are taxed & remains a contested international tax idea, shaping debates on taxing rights. This panel revisits its origins, evolution & why it is re-emerging in #UNTaxConvention negotiations. 🔗 bit.ly/4dzGeWL

📢 Join us this Friday for the second webinar in our 'Four definitions to change the world' series, exploring how “foreseeable relevance” is being shaped & debated in the #UNTaxConvention How should tax information be shared across borders, & under what rules? 👉 Register: bit.ly/4wEtl6D

Jim Clarken of @oxfamireland.bsky.social sets out a clear case for a wealth tax. It won't solve everything, but it can pull the handbrake on accelerating inequality. We think that's urgently needed in this country. www.thetimes.com/article/2a39...

Truly horrifying study on the personal & social harm done by sycophantic AI. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brendan Palmer (UCC) presented IFUT’s updated Precarious Employment Survey at #IFUTADC2026. 87.8% said precarity remains pervasive across higher education, while staff reported unpaid work, insecure contracts and long delays before permanency. Delegates backed continued organising and action.

Not good enough, after 8 years of delay, over 2 years of apartheid Israel’s livestreamed genocide in Gaza, of escalating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously recommending the inclusion of services, 🧵1

Functional finance Suppressing finance Taxing the rich Transforming firms The foreign exchange constraint @abenanav.bsky.social’s transition plan has it all. The most intellectually serious and exciting thing you’ll read this month I promise.

End trade with Israel now @ipsc.bsky.social #freepalestine www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Housing. Important, inarguable overview by Lorcan Sirr @tudublin.bsky.social via @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Link to the book (open-access): taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

I contributed a book chapter on a key EU policy problem: fiscal consolidation pressures and rising defence spending risk crowding out public investment in the green and digital transition. I discuss options for creating more fiscal space under the reformed EU fiscal rules.

This should read: Data centre expansion threatens energy affordability for households and national decarbonisation plans. www.irishexaminer.com/business-col...

💫 New publication by Manuel Aalbers on financialization or rental housing 3.0, exploring how niche housing segments, such as mobile homes, informal housing and subsidized housing, are turned into assets. Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why has the taboo on tax increases for the rich (TIR) weakened? Timely piece by Fastenrath & Marx that emphasizes 2 key conditions, based on SPD and Labour (temporarily) embracing tax-the-rich platforms: 1) Competent policy entrepreneurs: "mobilizing on TIR requires public confrontation with..."

Monday, global edition

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Private equity: taming the beast - a joint podcast episode with the brilliant @bylinetimespod.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @naomifowler.bsky.social @alexcobham.bsky.social - it's gone under the radar for too long - @hettieobrien.bsky.social discusses her new book

Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.

The 14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference takes place in SETU Waterford on 26 May from 10am-5pm. The morning session will have presentations on Earnings, Climate & Resilience. For more details & registration go to - www.nerinstitute.net/events/2026/... #Earnings #climate

Tomorrow at 6.30pm in Trinity (Dublin 🇮🇪), I'll be joining academics to talk about the humanitarian and human rights impacts of war in Lebanon & Iran. Info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/humanitari...

The conversation had been brisk and pleasant when, suddenly and simultaneously, everyone just got dog tired.

Here's the report, led by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social.

Looking forward to discussing Gender, Transnationalism and the Far-Right on the Island of Ireland tomorrow morn (Fri 8th) at the @sociologyireland.bsky.social. Welcome along! With thanks to Ulrike Vieten for organising.

Summer looking better already :-)

Happy Labour Day! @maynoothuniversity.ie recorded € 11 million surplus last year. It's time for tenured academics to stand with precarious academic workers. Solidarity is just lip service if not rooted in campaigns to build pressure for change. @ifut.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Fascinating and rich report on the Far Right in Ireland by the team at Hope and Courage Collective @edelmcginley.bsky.social @dukeofemily.bsky.social. A must read hopeandcourage.ie/wp-content/u...

"Raghu Rai is gone, at the age of 84. An astonishing man. He showed how photography can come so close to poetry.... Calling him a magician of the camera would not be an exaggeration." Photographs should reflect "Life's longing for itself" was his philosophy. Book here: ojasart.com/wp-content/u...

Family scene behind the Taj Mahal. Agra, India, 1985 | Raghu Rai

The annual MU Arts & Minds Festival returns & will take place from May 7-9, Thurs to Sat. A major draw this year will be The Blindboy Live Podcast Show on Saturday, bringing one of Ireland’s best-known podcasters to town for a wide-ranging conversation. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation. She represents us and the rage we feel.

Just glorious

The South Centre 's Anne Wanyagathi joined the IMF Civil Society Policy Forum panel "Making IMF Tax Policy Work for People" alongside Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, the Tax Justice Network, the International Trade Union Confederation and the IMF, during the IMF Spring Meetings 2026.

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Interesting - 'microeconomic populism'. by @stephangruber.bsky.social

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Members of the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social have contributed to a series of reflections on the (contradictory, emergent, uncertain) 'state of the state', introduced by Andrew Barry and me (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.

The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order, by @jbrgreen.bsky.social

Great reading list on the political economy of AI from @himself.bsky.social

Jam-packed programme. Kicks off today. Fantastic events running Mon-Thurs! @maynoothuniversity.ie sites.google.com/view/maynoot...

The world is at a crossroads. But there are still opportunities for global economic justice movement! Join our Policy Forum on 18-19 June to realistically analyse the current context, share ideas, develop strategies and energise our collective work. Register now: www.eurodad.org/eurodad_poli...

Spring, Earrach, Udaberri, Primavera, Gwenton, Forår, Kevät, Frühling, 春天, Wiosna, ربيع, however you say it, it's only fab out on the campus at the moment. 🌺🐈

"This weekend, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, and Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula Silva, will meet in Barcelona with the heads of states of South Africa, Mexico, Colombia and many more countries to press ahead [with a global minimum tax]." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet another stalled regeneration promise. An enraging yet familiar story. Written by @kittyholland.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

For those of us who grew up in the Ireland of the 1970s and 1980s, Moya made traditional music accessible. She showed us that our music was just as relevant and cool as that from the UK and the USA, and that there was more depth in it for us to connect with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmUx...

Important thread by @alexcobham.bsky.social

After four sessions of (sometimes heated) discussions, the #UNtaxConvention negotiations are now entering crunch time. We've just submitted to the UN our written input as a negotiations stakeholder. Here's a summary of what we submitted. taxjustice.net/2026/04/03/u...

Documents say asylum law centre was in “unprecedented crisis”. The Legal Aid Board tried to hide it with redactions. A technical fail made it easy to reveal what sat behind the black rectangles. The board said it redacted accounts that weren’t “evidence-based”. www.dublininquirer.com/documents-sa...