Come to our wee Belfast book launch. This Saturday at 1pm! I love saying "wee". fb.me/e/7Ja4BlPwZ

Today is too late for the launch, but the nice thing about books is that they're available afterwards. Buy this one!

Packed house in The Teacher's Club for launch of David Landy and @oisingilmore.bsky.social new book on the contemporary Irish Left - 'Fragments of Victory'. So many familiar faces!

'Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left' edited by @oisingilmore.bsky.social and @david-landy.bsky.social and published by Pluto Press. I have coauthored a chapter in it on the Irish Repeal referendum, focused on the activism of the Abortion Rights Campaign. #abortion #sociology

Very interesting thread. 🧵

Hold the date: Book launch on February 6th! ‘Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left’, which I co-edited this with David Landy, is forthcoming from Pluto Press in January 2025 and is available to pre-order now. www.plutobooks.com/978074534875...

The irony of the neoliberal dispensation in a academia is the refusal to apply something like a cost-benefit analysis to competition itself

I think this thread is wrong in a number of ways, but it's still an interesting idea.

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

RIP H.S. (1922 - 2024), you will be dearly missed... libcom.org/tags/henri-s...

This is so sad. Henri was one of the most incredible men I've ever met, and it was an honour to know him and consider him a comrade.

A good article by Anne Marie Walsh in the @irishindependent.bsky.social about my report on pension auto-enrolment, gender and care launched today with the National Women's Council @nwc.bsky.social

Ireland’s auto-enrolment pension scheme may deepen the gender pension gap, as it links pensions to earnings—disadvantaging women for unpaid care work. Read our report with @nwc.bsky.social: www.tasc.ie/publications... #PensionJustice #EconomicEquality

The auto-enrolment scheme is not gender neutral. It risks increasing the gender pension gap and that cannot be ignored by policy makers. We need to focus on meaningful, non harmful reforms of our pension system. Mary Murphy, Age Action #PensionJustice #Stillstuckinthegap

Private tax relief is the elephant in the room because it benefits those most who have the highest incomes. We want to see adequate pensions for people in old age and the best way to achieve this is the State pension. Senator Alice Mary Higgins #PensionJustice

Auto-enrolment is likely to increase the gender pension gap. We need to look at the State pension and investing in /benchmarking it as the bedrock of our pension system. Maureen Moloney, University of Galway #PensionJustice #StillstuckintheGap

Men have significantly higher pension income than women because they have significantly higher income from private pensions because their earnings during working age are also much higher. Oisin Gilmore from TASC #PensionJustice

RTÉ article about my report for the National Women's Council @nwc.bsky.social about the gender and care aspect of forthcoming Irish pension reforms.

Just after leaving the launch of a report I wrote for the National Women's Council about pension auto-enrolment.

United Health CEO is assassinated in NYC. Wall Street: this is good.

A decent article by David Broder, whose not on here, on the election. jacobin.com/2024/12/irel...

I was on Spanish radio talking about the economic background to the Irish elections. On the International News Program ("5 Continentes") broadcast on Thursday, it starts at 11m: www.rtve.es/play/audios/... And a long report (with different topics) broadcast on Friday: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

Ireland's exit poll suggests the govt will lose 6pts of vote share. That would put them just below Belgium on the 2024 leaderboard of anti-incumbent backlash: Indonesia -39 Britain -20 South Africa -17 Portugal -13 Lithuania -11 Austria -11 Japan -10 Belgium -7 USA -3 Croatia -3 India -1 Mexico +1

This day last week @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social was on @aljazeera.com explaining Irish people's solidarity with Palestine 🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸 aje.io/tbgtcn