I have just learned that in France a prescription is an "ordonnance" which sounds a lot more impressive (and perhaps effective).

No matter how often this is stated, there are those who persist is claiming that criticism of Israel's murderous activity in Gaza and Lebanon is somehow anti-Jewish, not anti-Israeli. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Spare us from those who look into their hearts to find what the people of Ireland want. A sound piece from Patsy McGarry in today's @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...

Missing being at RHS Chelsea this week. The best part is always the Floral Pavillion which are all about gardening. The gardens are not about gardening. They are about engineering.

‘I am working class and there’s nothing I like better after I’ve had a few pints at Wetherspoons, a good curry and laid a pipe, than to pop over to see my ex-banker Dulwich school millionaire tax dodging pal, Nigel, and kiss his upper class arse’ Reform. The party for working men. #makerfield

HM not HRH ffs!!

NEW | A look at Simon Heffer’s new publisher. Spoiler: it ♥️ ‘race science’ guys and antisemites… BARON BLACKWATER’S VERY BAD BOOK CLUB He’s promoting his Enoch Powell book in The Telegraph and Spectator. His chosen publisher is a far-right cesspit. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/baron-blac...

OK - they're both evil dickheads, but seeing Musk defeated is a joy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My review of this convincing study.

Breaking news: A jury decided to throw out Elon Musk's case against Sam Altman and OpenAI on the basis that its claims fell outside the statute of limitations. ft.trib.al/7NGODiZ

The Irish government is more than happy for you to do business with these people.

Silence is complicity

Random US food…

A gang of youths Have been hanging around The shop For over an hour Discussing books

How can the Torygraph be using Wes Streeting's EU rejoin announcement to attack Andy Burnham, rather than attacking the explicit rejoiner himself? Burnham is CLEARLY worrying the right wing, whereas they're entirely comfortable with Wes Streeting, which should tell you everything you need to know.

Despite Brexit, British food is safer than American food. Also random food photos on Bluesky are frequently hideous when posted from the US unlike most from the UK. And I’m neither British nor American.

Moscow right now 👀💅

Other work of the Ladybird artists Cotswolds Village Artist: SR Badmin

No. www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

For UK followers, these ALDI wines offer outstanding value for money. And I wish we had that Bordeaux in Ireland - it's a joy. www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

As a teen In the 90s I loved Rage against the machine. I bought a Tshirt with the lyrics "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" on it and my mom made me take it back for a refund. So I did exactly what she told me.

I got "Anarchist Rotarian" if you must know.

@ebu.ch facilitated international propaganada for a genocidal regime whilst those who came second in #Eurovision were attacking and murdering civilians in refugee camps in Gaza.

Great piece by @jenoconnell.bsky.social Bertie’s outburst wasn’t part of a Fianna Fáil master plan. It was worse than that www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

That’s all he got. No help with Iran, the opposite in fact. He was threatened to back off Taiwan, vague claims about buying Boeing planes, and was told the US is a declining nation, but he’s too stupid and arrogant to realize it was about him.

The Far Right are whining.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Essex County Council’s first week under Reform UK control and they’re smashing it. 💥 Have I left anything out?

I also love that Bertie is worried about Sharia Law when Ireland had women & kids tossed into the Church ran Laundries for slave labour & sexual abuse for "being sinful"- and he was in favour of having Church records sealed so as to protect religious orders from consequences.

Remember people: Bertie Ahern can only enter your house if you invite him in. Stay vigilant out there.

Today, far right leaders will try to spread hatred and fear on our streets. We’re all too familiar with the consequences of that politics, how quickly dehumanising rhetoric escalates into real-world violence.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

'Remind me again, whose decade of leadership left Ireland in such a precarious position as to be so gutted by the 2008 financial crisis that we never really recovered? Was it the Congolese, or am I remembering that wrong?' This week's column on BertieGate2026, with a smattering of Micheál.

An old watercolour drawing of mine from a sketching visit to London in 1993. This is the Inns of Court, completed on the spot. I was told off by the porter who is looking out of the window on the right (he graciously said I could finish what I was doing). It sold at an exhibition.

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Both Labour and the Tories have wasted time and effort in pursuing the racist knuckle-draggers who support Reform and who will never vote for them anyway...

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

No P.G. Wodehouse?? "Tommyrot, Jeeves. Pure mashed potato". www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

BYD Exported More Vehicles In April Than Tesla Sold Worldwide* cleantechnica.com/2026/05/13/b...

Starmer pandered to Reform – and got what he deserved The decision to prioritise Reform-curious voters over Labour loyalists and Green-friendly floaters has been catastrophic archive.is/2026.05.15-1...

And so it begins. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

This ghastly woman - it's hereditary - claims that Britons are being punished by the EU for voting Leave. Look, Rachel, when you leave the club, you abandon the privileges of membership. And your lying brother sold Brexit to the electorate. Check out that mote... www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...

We're absolutely raging here. The Globalists stiffed us on last month's invoice for services to Big Woke. If you'd like to help cover the shortfall, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WhispersNews

No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period

I hate to admit it but John Bolton is right again.

Farage is a thin-skinned petulant creep. The pub bonhomie is a carefully-crafted act.

"There's a reason President Trump is respected by world leaders, and it's because he's consistently shown a level of strength that we haven't seen from our Commander in Chief in modern history." - Vice President JD Vance, whose career plan is for Donald Trump to drop dead

3-year-old Teslas fail inspections more than any other 3-year-old car in the Finnish market by multiples. Top 3 worst: 1. ⁠Tesla Model Ys saw 62.7 % failures. 2. ⁠Tesla Model 3s saw 58.7 % failures. 3. ⁠Dacia Dusters saw 23 % failures. Nearly all other car models had under 10% failure rates.

Over on LinkedIn a prominent Nigerian-born Irish academic and activist is receiving a ton of abuse from men telling her she’s not Irish. Using their real name and with their employer in their bio.