Sometimes you just have to lean into the mid-life crisis ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHp9...

Somehow those "tough decisions" are always about making poor people even poorer, not about nationalisation or taxing the super rich.

At his Belfast gig Paul Weller dedicated this to the people of Gaza. Never thought about the lyrics in that way before but it makes sense (he played the fast version last night but this is better) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea6V...

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’ @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/jordan-valle...

This is the guy who a few months ago did a flattering three hour interview with John Collison whose think tank is currently exerting a major influence on Irish government policy. He might be a madman but he's our kind of madman.

Really pleased to be asked by the LGBTQIA+ Heritage Group to talk about the lives & deaths of brothers Sammy & Anthony McCleave. I've been invested in their stories since I first read about them over 20 yrs ago so it's an honour to be able to share some of the research I've carried out over the yrs.

1/ The Israeli government struck a vehicle in Gaza and then struck the area again as civilians gathered to rescue the wounded, increasing the number of casualties. Raghad Ashour, an 18-year-old student, was on her way to take her general secondary education examination when she was killed

Don't worry, whatever happens afterwards some of the Irish left's greatest minds will be along to tell you it was objectively progressive all along

We should recognise that unionism is not to blame for Donaldson; sociopaths are very good at infiltrating, at hiding their true selves. We should also recognise that unionism has weaponised crimes by individual black and brown people to demonise entire communities. They need to think about this.

so sick and burnt out last week I missed my own Irish Examiner op-ed on how communities have organised to resist the far right and repair the damage left behind once politicians have lost interest and the press have moved on to the next story www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Hope everyone in Belfast is safe tonight from the loyalist mobs out threatening to burn DUP members from their homes because of the actions of Jeffrey Donaldson.

I don’t want to be a crude leftie, but the Guardian has a column on Where It All Went Wrong for Starmer that doesn’t mention Gaza/Palestine even once either as a foreign policy issue or as a target of domestic repression - come on, man.

Depraved Donaldson claimed to be on a mission from God, with ‘an unusual spiritual sixth sense’, while assaulting tiny children: Long read on a degenerate political leader whose double dealing was on a scale few human beings could imagine.

PSNI Stand Down Riot Units As Loyalist Gangs Not Bothered By Donaldson Guilty Verdict https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/06/22/psni-stand-down-riot-units-as-loyalist-gangs-not-bothered-by-donaldson-guilty-verdict/

AI hasn’t made your toaster smart. It hasn’t trained an army of robot dogs to resist human beings and start World War IV. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Can confirm that no trouble is expected this evening in Belfast after Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two children.

22-06-1977 UK: The first solidarity demo and mass picket supporting the Grunwick strikers is held. todayinlaborhistory.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/j...

Last word on Andy Burnham: never trust a man who looks like all of the Smiths at once.

One week since The Fenian Empire hit US shelves! A massive thank you to everyone who has reached out, and to the brilliant series editors Kevin Kenny & Nicholas Wolf - and the entire @nyupress.bsky.social team for putting together a final product that really captures the spirit of the text.

“It is a tragedy of today’s politics that, for too many, working-class defiance finds its outlet in racist organisations and reactionary parties, and that the left’s neglect of class politics… has left it with little moral standing to challenge that”: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Looking forward to this

despite their usual trumpeting of any crime committed by a foreign national, the only story Gript have run on Ramamoorthy was when Jim Glennon admitted he was the ex-TD who gave him a reference maybe they don't want to embarrass their friends at Spirit Radio, where Ramamoorthy was a DJ for years

My Substack post on how Ireland's unique ethical approach enables to help out both Israel and Russia while continuing to occupy the moral high ground. open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

Shameless hypocrite. As if being a Putin apologist wasn't bad enough. #spéirghorm

When you see people doing this it confirms your suspicion that America is the only thing that matters to them.

Though it hasn’t become a national issue, there have in recent weeks been arson attacks of mosques, street attacks on those perceived to be Muslim, and now this. An issue that needs to be taken seriously. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone pointed out to me once that the only people actually benefitting financially from the explosion in growth of data centres are developers. Give the behaviour of the government I'm starting to think this theory makes sense

I love that this guy thought to himself “If a bin could talk this would be its voice”

OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI‑WAR CONFERENCE IN LONDON On 20 June, the Stop the War Coalition is hosting a major International Conference Against War in London. Back in January, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign wrote to Lindsey German, Convenor of StW, stressing that any credible discussion…

#OtD 18 Jun 1978 a multi-ethnic crowd of 4000 people took to the streets to protest against racism after a white mob attacked the predominantly Bengali area of Brick Lane in London the previous week. More on Asian struggles at this time in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/british-...

Final episode of Brothers in Pain. This one looks at Irish republicans across the 'White Dominions' and in continental Europe. Thanks again to Fin Dwyer and the Irish History Podcast. shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

Inspired by Eamonn's post www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7B...

As penance for my footballing Anglophobia. Why the Real Golden Age of Television was British rather than American. The Singing Detective! Ken Loach! Mike Leigh! The Naked Civil Servant! Boys from the Blackstuff! And Many More! saturdaynightwaltz.substack.com/p/the-real-g...

As Israeli forces push to seize even more of Gaza’s territory, many Palestinians are left questioning whether the diplomatic process has any meaning at all. www.972mag.com/gaza-israeli...

1/ Many Palestinians in Gaza are descendants of families displaced from Jaffa in 1948, and many people in Jaffa today have relatives in Gaza who have lived through the horrors of the genocidal war. The distance between Jaffa and Gaza is measured in kilometers and in decades of separation and loss.

I love this. Unmute.

"what do we do with all these copies of Vandalising Ireland we bought to help juice its sales?"

Omer Bartov: "Israel has completely exhausted all credibility to ever again invoke the Holocaust.. the main enemy" of the Jewish state "is its own government." He advocates European and US sanctions – not to punish Israel, but "to save it from itself." expresso.pt/medio-orient...

This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal ❤️‍🩹 He was just seven months old when he was killed when Israeli soldiers fired a bullet at the car he was traveling in with his parents in the West Bank. His parents were wounded by the bullet. (1/2)

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PAIGC report of the supreme Council of the Struggle Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde

Growing up in an Irish household in England has been defined by two eras of WC discourse. Post 1986: Haha, you guys are so bitter. Just let go - they won. It’s about time you guys stopped being so petty, sure everyone bends the rules if they can get away with it, it’s funny really. Post 2009: 😡

Waiting for the social media ban for the group most vulnerable to exploitation and radicalisation by online anti-social elements: middle-aged politicians

Only 10 (or so) years after I first started drafting it, I’m very excited that I have a new article out in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social! ‘He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago’ is out! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...