If you're anywhere in the vicinity of Princeton on Friday please join us arts.princeton.edu/news/2026/03...

Our 4/9 issue is now online, with Pankaj Mishra on India and Iran, Pablo Scheffer on the art of tennis, @yilingliu95.bsky.social on Shenzhen’s engineers, Miranda Seymour on Muriel Spark’s spark, Ben Lerner on John Berger, @fotoole.bsky.social on Trump’s war of choice, & more.

Great event on “For and Against a United Ireland” this morning in DC with the Washington Ireland Program and authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social. Special guests included Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland @little-pengelly.bsky.social and @reptimkennedy.bsky.social. 🧵

Deeply honoured that Sam McBride and I have won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for For and Against a United Ireland. www.hotpress.com/culture/fint...

'For and against a united Ireland' by Sam McBride and Fintan O’Toole has won the 29th Ewart-Biggs Prize! 🏆 🎉🍾 The Ewart-Biggs Prize recognises work that promotes peace, reconciliation and greater understanding. @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

We kicked off the US tour of “For and Against a United Ireland” last night in Chicago w/ authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social. Next: NYC, DC, Boston, Princeton The book has inspired dialogue in Ireland and the UK. It’s a thrill to discuss it on this side of the Atlantic.

Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) on Trump’s meaningless war, all violence and no pretext, all means and no ends https://go.nybooks.com/4rrbXOP

Poignant that Country Joe died in the midst of all this: "One, two, three, four / What are we fighting for?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v...

Prosecutors are losing key witnesses in criminal cases because they are getting deported by this administration. The lawlessness of ICE and CBP makes us all less safe.

The Trump administration is unsatirisable

Join us in Chicago for an event with @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social — authors of the acclaimed book “For and Against a United Ireland.” 🗓️ Thursday, March 12 🕟 Reception @ 4:30 pm | Event @ 5:30 pm 📍 The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St. ✅ Register here: go.nd.edu/for-against-...

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Great piece on Andrew and imagery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're in New York on March 25th you're very welcome to this talk in memory of the great Robert Silvers. www.showclix.com/tickets/fint...

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

The idea that Trump is creating quotas for denaturalization is a gross abuse of power that should scare every single American. Republicans used to pretend they were for legal immigration, but now they are working to strip citizenship from Americans for no reason.

SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov

“If the murder of Alex Pretti…cannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meanings…making the victim the perpetrator, the perpetrator the victim.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

“The effluence of extreme affluence”. @fotoole.bsky.social in full flight www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...???

Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Cover reveal of my new book and a link to pre-order. You’re welcome 🤓https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/a-hosting-interviews-with-irish-writers-1991-2025

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

Our 2/26 issue is now online, with @fotoole.bsky.social on the murders in Minneapolis, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison’s sense of humor, @juliangewirtz.bsky.social on the new microchip race, Vivian Gornick on Arundhati Roy, @rhodesben.bsky.social on Robert McNamara’s sins, and much more.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Troublemaker is my middle name.

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

“Trump’s imperial project is all gunboat and no diplomacy. He probably mistakes the flattery…of most European leaders for esteem. In reality their deference masks a mixture of fear and short-term resignation.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Fintan O’Toole @fotoole.bsky.social on the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti https://go.nybooks.com/4bmNB4F

The prospect of #Irish #Unification is now stronger than at any point since #Partition in 1921. Journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND. Sam McBride Fintan O'Toole #Preorder their book at: undpress.nd.edu/9780...

Happening this spring! On March 14th, authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social will discuss FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND at the Irish Arts Center in #NewYork. Their #NewBook presents the case for and against #Irish #Unification. Order your tickets at: production.irisharts...

On Renee; www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

The Picasso of Football. Absolutely loved watching this genius. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... I read @sjamcbride.bsky.social & @fotoole.bsky.social's For & Against A United Ireland. A fascinating intellectual exercise that gave me the push to put down my thoughts on how any possible Irish Unification vote should be approached.

A memory of Martin Parr www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...