Insane stuff, but the Irish Times headline writers appear to be attributing things Jim Gavin didn't say to him to make him seem more critical of the left

1. Change all her political opinions. 2. Get therapy, decide to not be an arsehole anymore, really put the work in. 3. Do the actual work that politicians do and accept the criticism that comes with it rather than being a bleedin' hurler on the ditch.

I agree with this. There are a number of things about the current labour party which I think best make sense as a kind of fanatically committed centre right extremism. Odd to say because it's been tied up with a lot of dishonesty, but in a sense it's even principled...

As I said the other day, the main retort of political science professors to people who identify Labour's trajectory as deliberately suicidal is, "Political parties don't like to lose elections," but I really think those people severely underestimate the zealotry that underpins the McSweeney project.

For a second I thought this was a Taskmaster spoiler

Hey if any content creators get an idea to land on the island to get some material, please go right ahead. Can’t wait to see the footage!

If the only lesson that politicians learn from the Very Expensive Bike Shed Story is "don't build any bike sheds ever", then that's a disaster. This is significantly lower in planned cost, and the tender hasn't even been awarded yet.

There's two women candidates out of three, but in fairness they are heathens and communists.

The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

PrOTecTinG WoMEn...

Therapist: Cathulhu isn’t real and can’t hurt you Cathulhu:

You should post this on Facebook or wherever your ICE agent/Military/Cop cousin can see it

You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.

i think we all know where this is going

Famously, the primacy of EU law stops in the application of EU law whenever Member States say so.

imagine right, you've had to get past the 28k/38k minimum income requirement for a spouse visa, your visa conditions are *work is not a requirement of entry*, you'll pay about 14 grand over 5 years minimum across 3 visas, and you have to also pick up dog poo from the local field or you have to leave

Hundreds of businesses to Bridget Philipson: "please stop telling us to invade our customers' privacy"

Timeline cleanser 🐈

"Let's use people who've moved here to plug the gaps in Government services because we've never recovered from austerity - and let's be really racist while we're doing it"

Think about what Michael D spoke about since he was elected. Think about how different the official tone would have been if we'd had 14 years of Sean Envelopes. Now imagine some Iona head in the Áras amplifying terf and racist talking points. The Presidency doesn't have power, but it has influence.

So 41 complaints over half a decade, 32 from Peadar and 11 ended up donating after it was explained why anyway, leaving between 20-30 in 5 years to make up the anti-trans article quota for the indo this Sunday. F U C K OFFFFFF!!!! www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

That’s not how EU law works, Slovakia 🙄

at any given moment starmer has like 3 different positions put forth in articles and commentary, or lisa nandy is on TV being wrong about NI numbers, and his home secretary is saying something else *again* this very morning. I dunno man it kinda feels like they're lying to everyone, all the time

Donkeys at my local animal sanctuary having a party to celebrate one of them living there for 20 years.

The Irish Times interview with Steen underscores how painfully entitled and obnoxious she is but this bit made me laugh. It’s so clearly bullshit (obviously she she just picked up her favourite bag thinking nothing of it) but even the fake rationale makes her look like a prick! lol

Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced. The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵

lisa nandy: "the problem with national insurance numbers is that they're not linked to anything else". if you came here on a work visa when we still had physical biometric cards for visa holders, you'd often find the national insurance number *on the card*, or tied to your current eVisa

This is how to do it.

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

As I always say a "technicality" is the word you use for a bit of law you don't like.

Charges dropped against Liam Óg O'Hannaidh of @kneecapceol.bsky.social it seems, what a lot of noise and fuss the British government has made to achieve nothing except embarrass themselves.

UK COURT RULES TERRORISM ACT PROSECUTION OF MEMBER OF IRISH RAP GROUP KNEECAP CANNOT CONTINUE

They really don't give a shit about rehabilitation, do they? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

This would make habeas corpus applications very... interesting. The State being ordered to fly people back to have legal challenges heard. (Or having to pay for lawyers to fly out to meet their clients?!) www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

It makes sense to go big on messaging that we need to bring in something that ukvi already has a digital system for?a digital system which replaced the physical cards migrants had from 2015? sorry, how is this not pandering to people with lies and hoping they buy it at the expense of migrants?

How do the 'second-gen' make sense of who they are? How do discourses of 'Irishness' influence how they talk about belonging. The stories I have heard so far have been incredible, full of humour, candid vulnerability, and agency. I am really excited about where this research project is going.

Tony Blair appointing himself Resident-General of Gaza is surely the end of his villain arc.

I could have told you this www.thejournal.ie/gaa-palestin...

Yeah a Brit Card is going go down like a lead balloon in West Belfast

when people with no experience of the immigration system wrongly explain how biometric and digital checks for immigrants have worked for the last decade:

Wait a minute, how the fuck is this supposed to work in Northern Ireland?! Or have they just forgotten that the North exists, again.

ID cards do *fuck all* about the "shadow economy" You would work though? An immigration system that isn't punitive.

In unrelated news, a digital ID card system will be great for everyone and the technology will never fail in ways that make people homeless and unemployed and penniless.

But they need all your data so that AI can solve everything, Louie. Stop getting in the way of the future.

Just popping in to say that, if I was Taoiseach and Irish citizens were banned from somewhere because of their opinions, I probably wouldn't wait to be asked by them to say something about it.

From the President who brought you ‘we’ll do it with two years’ notice to give people time to move manufacturing’, and ‘we’ll sign a treaty with the EU stipulating that its 15% tariff includes pharmaceuticals’, comes ‘actually yeah we’ll double your price unless you turn the sod over here in a week’

I think of digital ID cards as akin to the voter ID laws passed by the Tories. It fuels a lie that there are a lot of illegal immigrants unfairly working or claiming benefits, and if only we had the instrument we could find them and stop them. Not true!

For a party which is obsessed on chasing reform it’s WILD that they would try and introduce ID cards when these voters believe anything and everything is a conspiracy, LMAO

I'm calling it: 1st October 2041, first day of the Commission of Inquiry into the Brit-Card Failure, Lord Starmer called as a witness to explain why he thought that the largest UKGov IT project in history would come in on time and on budget. It winds up being cancelled after 15 years & £4.5 billion.