“He’s just a walking tumour. He’s hatred with legs.” We read Leo Varadkar’s new book so you don’t have to. Out on all podcast apps now.

NEW EPISODE ALERT. Leo Varadkar — neoliberal prince of darkness, lover of packed lunches, and all-round messy bitch — has written a memoir. Helen and Matt read it so you (and Glen) don't have to. And you really, really don't have to. Available on all good podcast apps now.

Really enjoying this. Slobodian takes the ideology of the Far Right seriously, in order to attempt to understand it. It is an extremely welcome change from the dismissiveness we usually see.

Honestly, Trump’s inevitable death will permit a whole lot of people to quietly and gradually shed the shame of ever having voted for him

Everyone say congrats!

Kate O’Connor, what an icon

The EU itself is “essentially anti-immigration”, though. it intentionally lets thousands of migrants drown in the Mediterranean every single year. Being pro-EU simply means you don’t mind sharing space with white people.

Andy Quirke is the most embarrassing scrote in Ireland

What is ‘RTB’ in this context? I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how the Residential Tenancies Board had all of this data on people in the first place

Not good!

Damn. A true giant. Difficult to understate how easy it would’ve been for him to steer clear of activism, given the political and cultural milieu in which he made his name. RIP

The far right is powered by jouissance, political enjoyment. In this one specific regard, the Left could learn a lot from them.

Only the far right could have a ‘Free Ireland’ anthem and it rapped by an English gangster 🤣

Jesus I hate Musk so so much. We’d all be so better off if he was gone

If it was Newsom that was killed instead of Kirk, how likely do you think it is that Kirk would be saying the same shit In return? He’d fucking revel in your death you spineless bastard

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

Genuinely insane thing to say rom BoJo before we know who shot him or why

Nights like this I miss Twitter, but always good to remind ourselves why we shouldn’t be on there

Very funny that fans of England (who basically win every game) hate the international break, while fans of other teams (who mostly lose) love it. Could write a great paper synthesising studies of nationalism and empire with Lacanian psychoanalytics about that.

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Good video! Simple to make!

With socialism and the welfare state firmly defeated, capital requires other enemies to sustain itself and distract from its inherent contradictions. It used to be communists and state spending, now it’s foreigners, trans people, and “woke”.

I’m not sure people truly grasp the level of dormant Luddism that’s percolating lately. People know that their phones have made them unhappier and would rather not make the same mistake again

Entirely loser behaviour! You’re SpiderMan! To those nerds you are their GOD!

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

Embarrassment of the day: I am only NOW realising that Douglas Murray and Charles Murray are different people.

If racists are hanging tricolours around the city, the last fucking thing we should be doing is making official complaints about them to the council. That’s EXACTLY what they want us to do, so they can turn around and say “See?! The left HATES Ireland.” Think smarter

What the hell is this feature? Surely if you’re recommending 5 songs from one album I could just listen to the whole thing?

Keep going guys, we nearly got him

Just wait, the freak out is coming

People constantly forget that there is no “Bluesky”, there is just who you follow and who follows you. I never see any of the crap people complain about

This just in: New York City the only city in the world with a subway

Hell yeah, Dev’s list of albums is amazing

Say it louder

Brave of you to assume Yglesias would ever set foot in a mall or a metro station.

Looks bad when you put it like this but doesn’t this just correlate pretty neatly with population centers? You’d expect more cycle lanes in the industrial strip from Copenhagen to the Alps, surely

The problem with this tedious line of conversation is that nobody ever defines what they mean by “politics” or “political”.

Mainoo will be the thing that turns the fans against Amorim. I’m not sure he understands the depth of feeling there

Can I play devil’s advocate for a minute? I actually think far-right protests at the site of hotels ARE more news-worthy than progressive protests which pose no threat to anybody.

You're a worker. You don't have to agree with every decision of the communist movement or of socialist states throughout history, but to disavow them in their entirety means you disavow your own right to imperfectly fight for liberation. This is your history, too.

I’ve said it so many times before but it is totally baffling to me how many people believe that social housing is free. And the persistence of this myth really reveals the segregation of Irish society – a lot of people simply don’t know anyone in social housing. Completely disconnected

The EU continues to support this rolling atrocity. Staff who try to object are silenced. Others willingly choose silence rather than criticise the Union.

Minor note but I HATE “blame the rich” as a message. It’s not the rich’s fault either! It’s capitalism’s!

Stewart Lee’s “these days, if you say you’re English..” routine is from 11 years ago. What’s quaint about this headline is how old fashioned it is. The only difference now is that more people believe it than ever.

Imagine how high we could get this number if we didn’t keep scaring landlords out of the market 😭

I had a dream that Casemiro was running for President of Ireland

The job market is fucking terrible right now. Why did no one tell me (they did)

Literally fucking insane

Even the “great” German film of the past few years (Zone of Interest) was directed by a Scot.