I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Pleased to share the first media article about my new book Performing Paramilitarism that connects this month’s violence in Belfast to a broader culture war within loyalism: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/feature...

I’m reselling #MountEerie tickets for the sold-out gig in Dublin because I can’t make it. Anyone interested can access here: secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/18006478E...

We - University of Leeds School of Music - have a PhD scholarship available, open to researchers from Black/ Asian/ other minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Open to UK/ Home eligible applicants. If you want to know more, DM me and I'll try and help. phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/385-...

Just back from the anti-racist demo in Belfast. Great turnout! ✊

Anti-racism protests are being held in Belfast and Derry this afternoon.

Depressing news out of Belfast this week, but for anyone interested in learning more about loyalism, conflict, and culture war my new book 'Performing Paramilitarism' gives an ethnographic account of what's driving some of this stuff: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

People are organising in Belfast to support those effected by last night’s racist violence. Whether you are near or far, please consider donating! chuffed.org/project/1854...

Trump is like a caricature villain from a 1980s video game www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

Happy Friday, everyone! 💚 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wish those involved all the best with this film, but was surprised no one acknowledged Harvey Andrews, whose song (and story) this is clearly riffing on… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interested in learning how anthropology reshapes debates in policy, heritage and human rights? Check out our online seminar for the MA in Anthropology at Queen's. Takes place tomorrow (19th Feb) at 3pm. More details here: www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...

Just started my journey to Cork to give a presentation at UCC tomorrow morning. If anyone is interested in music and culture war in Northern Ireland, it’d be lovely to see you! www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/music...

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

🔴 BREAKING: 14 people have been injured in settler attacks south of Nablus, including residents, journalists, and foreign activists, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported. Israeli settlers, in the month of October, carried out at least 264 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank — the highest...

1/ Was proud to be among 300 former NYT opinion contributors who pledge to boycott writing for the New York Times opinion section until our demands about Palestine are met www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

If you are engaging with the discussion on Aston Villa v Maccabi TA and its wider implications, do read this substack by Owen Jones. It's really informative, particularly the later sections. I learnt a few things which are worth knowing. open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...

The latest from ICE in Chicago: Video below ⬇️

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30... Remember this video for the centenary of Easter Rising 2016 - ‘ahistorical sh*te’ (D Ferriter)- defended by the then Heritage Minister! No mention of Pearse, Skinnider etc-but included the Queen, U2. Is this a president we want,one who evades #aras25 #speirgorm

Wonderful to receive the hard copies from @edinburghup.bsky.social today! Long in the making and so many people to thank in #cyprus, the #diaspora, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, @edinburghup.bsky.social and more!

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

“Nationalism and patriotism are so embedded within the discourses of nearly all of the major political parties that it’s impossible for politicians to tell the general public that they aren’t allowed to wrap themselves in the same symbols.”

It was better when the internet was a thing you did on the computer, not a presence that lived in your pocket

Absolutely incredible. The Berlin police justified repeatedly brutally punching this Irish activist in the face and breaking their arm... ...because they said they were acting like Nazis. Yes, violently attacking protesters opposed to genocide has definitely rebutted that one!

Effigies of rap trio Kneecap and an Irish language slogan urging people to “kill your local Kneecap” have been burnt on a bonfire.

I am FoI'ing the BBC on some issues to do with Israel-Gaza. DG Tim Davie told MPs on Mar 4: “Part of what I have tried to do for the BBC is to be a guardian of true impartiality through thick and thin, and that requires being completely transparent.“ But the BBC has so far withheld this information

Surely if you had all the money in the world, the job would actually be quite easy?

It feels like it ought to be possible for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to avoid giving a running commentary on a music festival.

Because the mainstream press don’t give a shit about the genocide but go bananas for anything at all culture wars. The UK government are pathetic.

For anyone interested in music and conflict in Ireland, here's a link to a radio programme I did with Radio Télévision Suisse: www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart. It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

After posting this I watched the full two-hour interview, which was actually really interesting: youtu.be/smemFVe0l5E?...

He knows nothing about the country he wants to bomb.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Watch, below, the genocidal racist nonsense that airs on Israeli TV and then read Prem’s deep-dive for Zeteo into Israel’s horrific Channel 14: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Top tier gaslighting from Labour: www.thenational.scot/news/2519277...

The right to protest must be protected! And genocide enablers must be called out! ✊🏻🇵🇸

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...