Books of the year 2025: 36 Authors and critics pick their favourites. Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

🆕 The #AGEBarometer2025 is out now! How are #digitalisation, the #GreenTransition and persistent #LabourShortages affecting #OlderWorkers? Discover inspiring practices gathered by AGE members that promote inclusion and support quality working lives. 📥 Download now: bit.ly/age-barometer-2025

Prisoners' stories from the #WestBank reported by #SallyHayden www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Educational & accessible as always from @annpettifor.bsky.social annpettifor.substack.com/p/central-ba...

I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?

Welcome article on issue crying out for greater attention & understanding - on.ft.com/4hZDDYh via @FT

RTE news : President Catherine Connolly says she will ensure 'all voices are valued' www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

To President Michael D. Higgins, on your last day as President of Ireland, we say thank you for your service. #Ireland #Politics #President

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Nailed by @fotoole.bsky.social. Deflect to distract from govt failures on housing etc

Welcome health policy study from #OECD @oecdgovernance.bsky.social doi.org/10.1787/0F7b...

Among those actively advocating for reforms are members of the Vietnamese diaspora who are concerned about their homeland and are eager to study their heritage.

Funding challenges @who.int - on.ft.com/4ojfvSE via @FT

Maintain control when you access internet & social media platforms www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA www.ft.com/content/1377...

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Nash Colundalur interviewed Machado, who is in exile, for Prospect: “Is there a risk that I could be put in prison? Yes, certainly.”

Well worth reading from @annpettifor.bsky.social. Lisa Cook, the Fed and Full Employment. CBs Pt 3 open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Molecular evidence on stress & ageing. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

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"No machine should decide who lives or dies” open.substack.com/pub/stopkill...

'Understanding the dynamics of research–policy fellowships: an evaluative analysis of barriers and blockages' New from Evidence & Policy, by Matthew Flinders and Jessica Benson-Egglenton Read with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744...

👵👴 Today is the International Day of Older Persons! We’re launching our Proposal for an EU Action Plan to Combat #Ageism: 9 key initiatives to embed age equality across EU policy. 👉 www.age-platform.eu/solidarity-b... #IDOP #IDOP2025 #AgeingEqual #AgeDiscrimination

Fact-based reporting from @tconnellyrte.bsky.social on the #WestBank www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

From @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. Always worth reading, on.ft.com/42K00u3 via @FT

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

For the latest episode of our podcast series, Senior Editor Rumbi Chakamba sits down with Managing Editor Anna Gawel and Global Development Reporter Ayenat Mersie to discuss the top global development stories of the week.

🚨 Our latest #Substack is out! It considers progress toward an #AutonomousWeapons treaty at the UN in Geneva amid the geopolitical shift toward normalising automated harm, rearmament, and an offensive approach to conflict. #CCWUN #StopKillerRobots stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Today we released the World Alzheimer Report 2025. The report explores the important topic of dementia rehabilitation, examining how the concept is defined and implemented, and how to best adapt rehabilitation practices. alzint.org/resource/world…#WorldAlzReportrt

I love this celebration of London & Londoners #diversity #inclusion #belonging #respect

My column in tomorrow's paper:

Nanoplastics contributing to rise in Alzheimer’s, TCD research finds

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

'"I have been obedient all my life, but it was too much," Sister Bernadette said. ... supporters are bringing food and groceries, and they have been seen by doctors. There is a steady stream of visitors, many of whom are their former students.'

France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners on.ft.com/46BFpKM | opinion

Palestinian journalists reporting in the shadow of death - on.ft.com/3JQBAbQ via @FT

State coerced my mother to give up a well-paid job when she married www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere. It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do. So what went wrong? My piece: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

RTE news : Japanese climber, 102, sets Mount Fuji record www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...

Journalist #SallyHayden has an exemplary track record & pulls no punches here. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Strategising to involve older people before governments start work on new UN convention in 2026 www.helpage.org/advancing-th...

Gaps in empirical evidence to guide policymakers & the public - on.ft.com/4mWjRxN via @FT

In the face of war, death, disease, injury and hunger in Palestine, what is happening to older people? Read Preetha Joseph and Pamela Suero's paper online in Journal of Global Ageing #HumanRights #Gerontology #HOMeAGE Doctoral Network.

Social media algorithms are encouraging anti-migrant violence, says campaign group

Links between violent disorder in public spaces & #domesticviolence www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Dementia drama Lost Lear astonishes on Edinburgh Fringe — theatre review - on.ft.com/41tbMsb via @FT