If you're in Ireland looking at the arson attack on Jewish community-owned ambulances & saying that maybe they should have spoken out against the genocide in Gaza, congratulations! You're using the same logic the British used to persecute Irish people in the 70s & 80s, and you're also an antisemite.

A few points 😬 first of all as anyone who lives in north Dublin knows, anyone who lives on Burrow Road describing themselves as “not rich” is absolutely priceless. Secondly, his idea of what constitutes an ordinary person’s criminal record is interesting, to say the least.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

I'm not sure a society where an endeavour this stupid goes unpunished can survive

The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

Colleagues creating incredibly useful tools!

Trump's defects in policy and personality are one and the same, and it's time to kill off any squeamishness about calling out the planet's Mad King. www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

📢 Attention populism/IR peeps! This is just to remind those of you who have not seen or (understandably) ignored my Trump-style announcement some time ago that the second edition of my co-edited volume (with David B. MacDonald and Dirk Nabers) #Populism and World Politics has been published.

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There is nothing in the NATO Charter that requires a member-state to join wars of aggression started by another member.

This lot once had an empire

Bruce Springsteen, Jessie Buckley and Hozier are among the stars who will feature on an album celebrating the late Shane MacGowan. Springsteen yesterday released a cover of A Rainy Night in Soho, which will be one of the songs on 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan. jrnl.ie/6982602

Anois, beidh ár 'horrifying dystopian surveillance app' ar fháíl as Gaeilge! Go han-mhaith ar fad! Ná cur ceist faoi an teicneolaíocht agus an comhlacht i ndiaidh an teic, an bhfuil "níochán-gaeilge" an focal ceart don nuacht seo?

Anyone who says this sort of thing should be understood to be willing to be gaffa-taped to the side of said tanker

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

Worth following this summary of VDL's speech:

a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.

It appears the RSA doesn't track the number of people killed by SUVs which to paraphrase the article " are designed for off-road use, and when used inappropriately on public roads they pose a danger to vulnerable road users." - but banning those would impact a very different demographic...

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

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When I wrote a piece about my son's love of reading in January, I included this bit because I refuse to hear lectures about literacy rates from the selfsame ghouls and vandals who've cheered on as the UK's apparatus for childhood reading has been stripped to the wiring and sold off for scrap.

It would be strategic lunacy for Europe to support the US/Israeli war on Iran. It is an illegal war that comes with huge costs: regional spillover, higher energy costs, helping Putin in Ukraine. It risks drawing Europe into a new regime change quagmire ecfr.eu/article/stra...

An excellent article on AI and history, but applicable to the broader humanities and social sciences as well...

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Bernard Woolley: Minister if the boots are on the ground then they can't be on the table... well I suppose you could have one on the table and one on the ground but that's be awkward, but soldiers are rather fit aren't they? They could manage the... stretch... *Humphrey and Hacker staring at him*

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My latest column for @wpr.bsky.social in which I argue that Macron’s nuclear speech really was groundbreaking and should get more attention (and please: I did not chose the title! All mistakes in the text are mine, but the title is not.)

The EU has the tools to stand up to the US (read anti-coercion instrument) and I read @olofgill.bsky.social's statements to mean it is ready to use them if Trump really blocks all trade with Spain because Sánchez dares criticize him. The EU has to stand together.

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

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I am pleased to contribute to the search for an Associate Professor in the IR of the Global South at the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk @politicsoxford.bsky.social. We seek outstanding scholars, maintaining broad openness on regional focus & method. Details: rb.gy/iosyrq Closes: 7 April 2026.

So, the GAC meeting today in Cyprus - which was to include representatives from accross the EU, candidate countries and the UK - has been postponed due to the security situation. Small nuissance in the grand scheme of things, but shows how direct EU territory is now affected by the war.

As we (rightly) focus on the threat of U.S. government funding far-right parties and "think tanks", this excellent @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social report is an important reminder of the crucial role that the Orbán government already plays in developing and financing a far-right infrastructure in Europe.

About growth in Europe and the US; it’s not the story you’ve heard open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Fog in Channel. Europe cut off.

De facto criminalizing and dehumanizing entire groups has always been a crucial ingredient of pogroms and genocides. While it is impossible to pinpoint any single case of rights being eroded like as THE cause of mass murders, each case weakens the safeties and lowers the threshold of atrocities.

It's U.S. foreign policy that the whole world must serve up our data to the AI giants that are now an arm of the U.S. government. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

🌱 Green Careers Series | Ep 8 Meet Diarmuid Torney, Director of DCU Institute for Climate & Society and DCU lead for the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. From politics & economics to fair transitions, he explains why inclusive decision-making matters. Watch here: buff.ly/IVO4hkP

My response to the Minister - and his suggestion that universities compress lectures into fewer days so students commute less. No way he’d agree for affordable and available student housing so students could have the full third level experience! #spéirgorm

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’ #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

cant.stop.laughing

The Italian bishops are right: these deaths are the result of political choices