So NOTORIOUS is on a deal. 99p on Kindle, and that's a bona fide bargain. I am so very proud of this book and really don't care how much you pay. So please rob me! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0F2...

Sitting in a bar in Jakarta and people are worried about how a government shut down in America will affect them here. The world is fucked because of our dependence on the US. Maybe a retreat from that will ultimately be good for the world.

So happy for them now that they’ve won. Absolutely disgusted at the behaviour of the US fans. It’s not how happy people behave, this is how people with low self-esteem behave. Too drunk, too obnoxious. Shame and sadness plus drink gets you to this point. Sad! www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2...

What I love about these YouTube is the fact that they show what people see when they visit Dublin - the best of it. I started my young working life as a bus conductor on the #13 from Palmerstown park to Ballymun in the late 1980’s. Believe me when I tell you 1980’s Dublin was an “experience”

This is a very good and thought provoking article from our state broadcaster RTE. It underlines the main question of being anti-colonial and why Kneecap resonate so well within Ireland and elsewhere. Our painful history can create a better future if we face up to it and support others on the journey

Tiocfaidh ár lá ar son na Palaistíne saor www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

This is is a cruel policy. This “shift to the right” is going to consume everything until the shame of it all catches up and we move back to sense. The shame will linger though. Ireland open to using deportation hubs outside EU borders, says Jim O’Callaghan www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Reader - he didn’t grovel

Jimmy Kimmel has broken the false narrative of “ratings”. It’s not ratings that matter now, it’s subscriptions and clicks. His show isn’t losing money anymore, it’s now part of the house of cards for Disney+ and if they take it out the whole house starts collapse. In just a few days he’s proved it

Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 16% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 31% at 00:00. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 58% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 26% of demand was met by imports.

Morning all. I'm talking gangsters, witch hunts, rogue spies, vampires, treachery and plagues at the Chelsea History Festival this Friday at 3 pm... but it won't all be laughs... there'll be serious moments, too. Do come along if free. Tickets here chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/notoriou...

I was thinking of my favourite Robert Redford movies. There are so many! Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, Sneakers, Barefoot in the park, All the president’s men. I think my very favourite though is Three days of the Condor. youtu.be/h1f1VJDe3ik?...

They can lift the ban on Palestine Action while they’re at it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Excellent read - well done @ottoenglish.bsky.social

The worst thing that could happen now is an apology from Kimmel. If this suspension means that he cannot return and criticise or satirise the government or holy “St Charlie of Kirk”’s memory then it’d be better if he just stayed off the air.

Trans rights are human rights.

Nothing makes me happier than to see new members to the Irish family. I promise you the VAST majority of Irish people welcome our new fellow citizens and only wish them happiness, health, and prosperity. ❤️ ☘️

15 years ago we were in this position. We often missed payments and had to prioritise which bill to pay that week. It’s depressing that things are no better. Almost half of people in Ireland fear they won’t be able to pay their bills – survey www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

It must have finally sunk in that he didn’t have the a hope. Yes the nomination is a clunky process that often provides safe establishment candidates. Counter point: Michael D Higgins & Mary Robinson. The presidency serves as the conscience of the nation www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

This has been happening throughout American history. That there was a period of about 20/30 years where it was a rarity is the real shock. 4 presidents assasinated, 2 wounded and 13 credible assasination attempts - when you start looking at state reps and members of congress the number keeps growing

The thing that gets me with all the rise of the right, Charlie Kirk, 100k marching in the streets of London and the smirks of Tommy Robinson and Farage etc… is that they KNOW they don’t represent the majority. They KNOW they have to seize this opportunity right now or it will be gone.

This is, literally, Fascism

Free speech absolutists 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Less than 24 hours after Charlie Kirk’s tragic murder you can already feel the story starting to turn over. What about those Epstein files? That’s not going away

I’m seeing a lot of stuff about Charlie Kirk’s view on guns and how a “few deaths are worth it” somehow being karma - stop it. It distracts from his racism and misogyny Charlie Kirk, RIP - we hardly knew ye

No, Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk wasn't “practicing politics the right way.” He promoted racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Kirk had every right to express his political views, and his death is an outrage. But no one who believes in peace and love should praise what he was doing to our politics.

LinkedIn is absolutely sickening today. Such tenderness for a man who preached hate and racism literally every day of his life. I am genuinely traumatised by his killing, but his sainthood is very questionable.

RTÉ says it will withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/0...

I see a lot of people complaining about Democrats “honouring” Charlie Kirk. They have no fucking choice! The media machine in America is so skewed to the right that a commentator was fired today for simply pointing out that Kirk was a victim of the environment he himself created. On MSNBC!!!!

A lot of people are going to learn a lot about Charlie Kirk tomorrow. They will read his own words and see video clips. Then they will ask why corporate America, the NY Yankees, the mainstream press, and MAGA valorized a man who spent his life committed to hate.

You’d hope that an assassination like Kirk’s would be a watershed moment where the government of the day would ask for calm and for the country to come together to condemn political violence. I doubt that will happen. Yet another sad chapter in American history fuelled by hate plus guns.

This is amazing. We need to do better on placement of solar and wind facilities on our little island, but if we keep going we will be close to the vast majority of our energy being sustainable and green.

She bounced a cheque for 25$ received probation and paid the money back only to then be arrested and placed in solitary confinement 10 years after literally paying her dues. ‘ICE’ places Irish grandmother and green card holder in US isolation cell over $25 cheque www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Read this and weep www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is brilliant!

We’ve left things go to far, but we can take back the narrative in Ireland. I’m certain that the vast majority of Irish people hate thuggishness and bigotry. We want our country back alright - we want to take it back from the scum bags and racists. Fuck’em

While the west assumes it is a totalitarian state, China functions weirdly through consent of the people while at the same time crushing dissent. Climate change is one area where the people of China have demanded change, and they are getting it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I agree.

The US has decided that constitution is passé and instead the Wild West “justice” of Judge Roy Bean should prevail…

This man has been obsessing over trans people for years, threatening violence and is accused of harassing one person including physical assault. He is not a “freedom of speech hero”. Father Ted writer Graham Linehan ‘arrested over X posts’ on trans issues www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

So wait….. Trump is still missing in action?

Everything is falling into place for these fuckers. Russia is winning in a way they couldn’t have imagined possible, it’s all worked out so well with just one useful idiot. They are winning, but they haven’t won.. yet. We can still wipe that smile off their faces

What a nauseating display at the cabinet meeting. Who can watch that and think the government of the US is in good hands? You can’t wait for the mid-terms. This kleptocratic regime will have finished its work by then. America is rightly fucked at this stage. youtube.com/watch?v=mVnE...

If Trump takes over the Fed that means that very soon the US Dollar will no longer be seen as a reserve currency. Watch in awe as Central banks dump the dollar for the Euro. Exports from the US will briefly be very cheap as the dollar tanks.

The fact of the matter is that Trump has done enough to be impeached and removed ten times over in the first seven months of his regime. The fundamental a of government are destroyed and I don’t see a way back without a mass movement on the streets. People are going to get hurt either way.

Anti-democratic forces are hitting a high water mark worldwide - let’s hope the flood subsides, but it won’t all by itself. We all need to act where we can. ‘Serious concerns’ over conspiracy theory group forming shadow system of county councils www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

I agree with pretty much everything in this article, except that Trump basically wants to use the same Russian government template in the US. He has as much disdain for Ukrainian democracy as Putin. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m pretty sure Putin has been giving autocracy 101 tips to Trump and that’s what we are witnessing (and for some enduring) now. I’m very hopeful this will not work because 1. Trump and his acolytes are so incompetent and 2. The American people are a very different to Russian people.

It’s never just one thing that brings down a government anywhere in the world, it’s the drip, drip, drip of corruption and incompetence. Epstein may have run out of steam for now, but it will resurface. The general feeling of discontent and disgust with Trump will continue to build.