When you get a solemn Rememberance email from a senior university administrator stating that "The United Nations estimated that 87% of people who die in war are now civilian" when the same institution blocked a staff-student listening session on Palestine and took protesting students to court.

Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon

The distortive power and influence wielded by billionaires and now trillionaires is incompatible with democracy.

Just as well celebrities are so rich because if The Traitors is anything to go by, they get their wallets inspected A LOT. #TheTraitors

Lads, the reformation is over. You won. Deal with it. www.thejournal.ie/orange-order...

🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓 We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in: >Counter-Terrorism >Emergency Powers >Human Rights >Constitutional Theory >Public Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Dispatch from the frontline of the Poppy Wars

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

"Awww, Thanks, Guy!"

New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...

FF and FG turning hard right on immigration despite emigration being a key part of Irish identity. Meanwhile, the mayor-elect of NYC proudly states that, "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Nobody will ever match the Simpsons’ perfect summation of America’s indefensible two-party system.

New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...

It's really amazing how the UK is a good few years ahead of Ireland in its race to the bottom on migrant rights and yet Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have learned nothing from the mistakes made by the British Labour Party or Tories in pandering to the far right.

I was just talking about Cheney to a colleague this morning in relation to the unitary executive theory...

This breaking news story raises more questions than it answers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New video in my Coffee Time Constitutional Law Series: The Common Law as a Source of British Constitutional Law youtu.be/g25kkI9jT0s

New video in my Coffee Time Constitutional Law Series: The Common Law as a Source of British Constitutional Law youtu.be/g25kkI9jT0s

A really sobering story about how vulnerable UK universities are to intimidation to get them to abandon human rights research. Claims by China in this report of inadequate "fact checking" should always be accompanied by mention of their exclusions from Xinjiang: share.google/KY9SxTEk3rUM...

What in the Pro-VC for Brand Awareness is this?

British press: look at this lefty woman Ireland elected as president. They're so ridiculous. Also the British press: There are serious allegations against Andrew so he will no longer be called Prince but he'll still get a stipend from the King and a huge house on the Sandringham Estate.

One of the key reasons behind non-jury trials in relation to terrorism cases in Ireland and Northern Ireland was orignially, not fear of jury intimidation but jury sympathy towards the defendant's cause; ie nullification. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somebody needs to do a 3 hour video essay on Kate Garraway's peformance on the Traitors and the state of British journalism... #CelebrityTraitors

Am I correct in thinking that this is the change to the ministerial code introduced by Boris Johnson so he didn't have to sack Priti Patel?

Example of allegation-picking in the latest ECtHR climate change judgment Greenpeace Nordic v Norway: not necessary to examine separately the complaints under Article 2 ECHR. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...

"So Mr Ross, it appears that the traitor turned out to be the very person who was most obviously a traitor." #CelebrityTraitors

These tech bros will name their companies things like Palantir, Sauron, and Uruk Hai but still not realise that they're the bad guys.

In case people still haven't realised yet, transphobia was always going to be just the start...

So the Raise the Colours brigade in Birmingham are flying the Irish tricolour alongside the Union Jack, St George's Cross, Scottish Saltire and the Welsh Red Dragon. Just in case anybody was in any doubt about the intellectual capacity of the geniuses leading this "movement".

"Irish people shock rest of the western world by thinking Palestinians are human."

Huge interest in our @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social conference on Public Interest Litigation & Access to Justice in @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th November. Click here for access to schedule and registration portal: universityofgalway.ie/business-publi…

And people say the British press doesn't know anything about Ireland. They got this scoop, didn't they.

"Stupid political parties, of which I lead the largest, whipping their councillors, TDs, and senators to block other presidential candidates."

Dying at Alison O’Connor saying FF/FG need to accept that their social media is the equivalent of bad dad dancing at a wedding on Radio One just there.

Or what the British press calls "an extremist".

“WOKE IS DEAD” I state confidently to a radio panel of people who agree with me just seconds after the headline confirms a landslide victory for Catherine Connolly, making her the most “woke” president in Irish history with a massive mandate.

It's fun watching the press of a country which has this politics calling the new Irish President-elect an extremist.

Ollbhua. #Aras25

Academic books should have little felt flaps that you have to lift up to read the very important bits.

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

If the Vox Pop that Morning Ireland just did in Clondalkin is anything to go by, Catherine Connolly is in for a very bad day. #Áras25

Unremarkable stuff on RTÉ Radio now As the political press once again demonstrate their intellectual vacuousness No question, of course, about how they approached the Presidential campaign Self-reflection is not a skill cultivated among the palace gossip merchants

Your regular reminder that the Irish electoral register is a joke. I emigrated in 2013 and I'm still on it. #Aras25

For overseas followers: in Ireland every seven years we vote for someone to tell the Government they are a bunch of evil clowns and every five years we vote in the evil clowns.

"By finishing second, Reform UK prove that they are the real winners of the Caerphilly by-election"

This new Irish Times aesthetic is awful. It looks like it's been made on Canva in about 10 seconds.

This is the context in which I and all my colleagues are being told that we must bring in a minimum of £25k in external funding per year. We get 100 hours of research time per year. The bid-writing process will take up most of it.