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...

In radio in Ireland, the “accent ceiling” persists. On volunteer-run community radio, there’s room for people with all kinds of accents – but it’s rare to move beyond that. read more here www.dublininquirer.com/in-radio-in-...

"For every additional dollar of windfall profit, approximately $0.20 is booked in tax havens. This diversion intensifies during commodity booms." Noteworthy in light of <gestures broadly at the world> taxobservatory.world/publication/...

1/ 🌍 New research from the ITO by @alice-chiocchetti.bsky.social, @nmoreaukastler.bsky.social, @qparrinello.bsky.social & @giuliavaraschin.bsky.social shows that commodity booms generate massive windfall profits, but a growing share ends up in tax havens 🧵⤵️ taxobservatory.world/publication/...

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :) 🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps... 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Another bookshop in London would like to stock my greeting cards. Is anyone interested in bringing 30 cards to the anarchist bookstore in Whitechapel for me please?

"Every Gazan student in Ireland is haunted by what they cannot express...." by @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

The far-right have called a rally in Coleraine this weekend, this is the peaceful counter. 'The Causeway Trade Union Council is organising a peaceful counter-demo to show that the north coast stands for peace, solidarity, and inclusion. Where: Coleraine Town Hall When: 2PM, Saturday 4th April'

Maynooth Festival of Palestinian Culture 20-23 April 2026 Great line-up. See you there! @afp-ire.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @musociology.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/maynoot...

Lelia Doolan, the 91-year-old Irish broadcaster and activist, has called on the public to “stand up – and walk – for peace." The initiative is aimed at highlighting opposition to the use of Shannon Airport by US military aircraft and advocating for Irish neutrality. #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

A death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jewish Israelis who committed similar crimes. That's apartheid. And still not a red line for western States who will continue their policy of support; because if genocide is not a red line, what is? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Important & of wider importance. Solidarity to our German precariously employed academic colleagues @ifut.bsky.social

Resisting the deliberative project of pessimism. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social talking to @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Trading Beyond Understanding is a powerful investigation of machine agency, market transformation, and the shifting boundaries between technological systems and social life. www.sup.org/books/sociol... #ReadUP

'The Price of Prosperity' report written with Paulie Doyle and Pat Brodie is now available on SSRN. 72 pages on the historical development of Ireland's dependency on the US and how this constrains the state's ability to pursue an independent foreign policy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Join us at Maynooth University for a conversation with Sally Hayden on reporting from Lebanon, Syria and beyond. 📅 1 April | 6pm 🔗 bit.ly/4sP2mT3 #MUResearch #Journalism #HumanRights @maynoothlaw.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

I’ll be back in Ireland briefly over Easter and doing this event at Maynooth University. It appears to be open to anyone. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Upcoming one-day symposium organised by and for postgrad and early career researchers on politically and socially engaged research in @musociology.bsky.social! Call for papers here: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

In person and online format. 'Is a democratic economy possible?' @neilwarner.bsky.social

Masha Ivashintsova going about her life taking mesmerising photographs (discovered posthumously) mashaivashintsova.com

"Our study’s policy recommendation is straightforward: a permanent excess profit tax on oil and gas, defined as returns above a specified threshold. ... taxing only the 2022 incremental US profits would have yielded $225bn ... enough to nearly double American clean energy investment that year."

A tale of two meetings by @alexcobham.bsky.social blog via @financialjustice.bsky.social www.financialjustice.ie/news/blog/a-...

As usual, amazing things are happening at the big-4.

Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of Congo. A socialist who sought to nationalise the country’s vast resources. A US-backed coup kidnapped him, tortured him, and shot him, then dissolved his body in acid. # Congo #lumumba #resourceterror

The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam is a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968. It was a mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. soldiers during the American War.

pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good ! academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

What does the evidence say about taxing the super-rich in #Denmark? 🇩🇰 In a recent webinar, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social & other researchers examined wealth tax myths and discussed how taxing the super-rich can support public investment and promote economic fairness. 📺 fho.dk/blog/2026/03...

The Irish Times reports that staff at University of Galway were “blindsided” by proposed Arts reforms. IFUT has convened well-attended meetings and raised concerns about consultation and data framing. Structural change deserves proper engagement. Read more: tinyurl.com/57fzcwnu

It’s exactly a month until my book publishes on 9 April! THE ASSET CLASS is a narrative investigation of private equity, a relentlessly destructive wing of finance that infiltrates almost every corner of modern life. Here are some of the very generous things that people have said about it so far…

An intersection that counts: Gender studies & economic sociology. In the new issue of "economic sociology. perspectives and conversations", editor Jeanne Lazarus and contributors show how attention to gender reveals economic dynamics that often remain invisible within mainstream economic sociology.

"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians" "Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."

Interesting. The ambiguity of centrism by @karlpike.bsky.social. Blog below & full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Call for Papers – Accra, Ghana | 11–12 June 2026 Workshop: Administrative Data & Tax Policy in Africa Focus: African administrative datasets → revenues, compliance, taxpayer behaviour, efficiency Deadline: 31 March 2026 👉For more info: bit.ly/40EL4fH

I really enjoyed doing this @identitiesjournal.bsky.social Podcast episode (9) on Researching Extremism and Risky Material with Shereen Fernandez and @rizwaansabir.bsky.social. 1/ open.spotify.com/episode/3Bpn...

Important. "Rather than collapsing, Iran is adapting.. illustrating... that war can indeed reinforce state structures, even under extreme external pressure" by Ali Ghareh Daghi @musociology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

Employers won’t be ‘penalised’ as Ireland to miss deadline to introduce pay transparency law. But women workers and the country* will. *Only six months ago the EU Court of Justice fined Ireland €1.54m for delays in fully introducing new work-life balance rules.

Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026 president.ie/en/media-lib...

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

🌍"There is still more possibility for progressive outcomes in the #UNTaxConvention than in any other intl' negotiation right now", @jayatighosh.bsky.social at IDEAs webinar. 2 key battles to: →Ensure fair taxation of digital services based on formulaic methods →Reforming unfair dispute mechanisms 👇

From the Archive: Michèle Lamont and Sada Aksartova, 'Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working-class Men' - analyzes how ordinary people bridge racial boundaries. (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What keeps men out of frontline care work? - Our new paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social suggests problem is less masculine identity anxieties & more low pay, insecure hours, limited progression & poor public understanding of care work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #gender

New on Critical Takes: UN independent expert Attiya Waris explains why talks on a UN tax convention are going unexpectedly well. criticaltakes.org/tax-and-prof... A recommended read for anyone in civil society whose work deals with the UN.

Doing Industrial Policy in a Geotech World: Challenges and Opportunities. New Special Issue eds Salih Işık Bora, @fbulfone.bsky.social & Timo Seidl www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

@palmapolyak.bsky.social ’s work on EU battery policy is electrifying! No, seriously it is the best stuff you can read on this sector.

Winter in America Gill Scott Heron, 1974 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zK...

The road to 80% #CollectiveBargaining: where do we stand? 📜 Under the EU Minimum Wages Directive, countries below 80% coverage must adopt action plans. Only 9 of 18 countries required have submitted plans. This week's ETUI conference explored how to turn commitments into real structural reform.

From South Africa to trains, how boycotts have shaped Irish sport. The public profile of sports events makes them a valuable forum for pursuing and drawing attention to social justice issues and other matters, writes Siobhán Doyle www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

NLR 157 is out now. Featuring an interview with Ervand Abrahamian on Iran and Susan Watkins on Trump. Also in NLR 157: Costas Lapavitsas on dollar imperialism, Xi Ruochen on Sinosphere publishing, Tony Wood on the Latin American ‘boom’ and much more. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157