Today's Substack Piece. Bertie Ahern Tells Us Who He Is open.substack.com/pub/saturday...

A nice blast from the past, Neil Blaney’s “Independent” Fianna Fáil materials in characteristic orange branding.

Cllr. Tom McDonnell of Kildare was at today's far right rally in London he said, and I'm not joking, there's never been any problems between Ireland and Britain, and no issues with Irish immigrants in the UK he then gave Tommy Robinson a letter from "the Elders of Ireland" to pass to Donald Trump

Two men arrested in London after man run over by van in Birmingham. Men arrested at Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march meeting point over incident on Thursday after flags were removed from lamp-posts

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

Niall seemingly selling unvetted merchandise. www.donegaldaily.com/news/gaa-tak...

Ahern mentions his then minister for integration, Conor Lenihan. The same minister for integration that once referred to Turkish construction workers as “kebabs.” m.independent.ie/irish-news/b...

Bertie Ahern in populism shocker.

Reform councillor claimed he ‘couldn’t remember’ if he TWICE stood for ‘racist’ BNP

Man charged as three Jewish people assaulted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage's No2 has come under fire after refusing to explicitly condemn a Reform councillor who said Nigerians should be melted and put into potholes.

Excellent analysis from my BBC elections team colleague and YouGov data guru @patrick-pme.bsky.social on what the local elections data tells us about whether Labour is losing more to Greens or Reform. Spoiler alert: its the Greens open.substack.com/pub/patricke...

This looks very much like a terrorist attack. But very little commentary to that effect. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Appeal after car drives towards Jewish children

Mixed, unclear and plagiarised counterterrorism. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Homes evacuated as police attend security alert in Lisburn

Important to drill down into the data and block out the noise - as this helpful thread does.

Post about Count Plunkett warning de Valera about associating too closely with 'the Jews' brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/blog/

“Make me consistent, Lord, but not yet.“

But remember - according to Matt Goodwin and Toby Young and their ilk - there is an absolute free speech crisis in universities. Then others on the right say they are all “indoctrination camps“ brainwashing students with woke “cultural Marxism”. Or something. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2607486...

I’m sure there was a time in UK politics when the leadership of most of the parties was in such a dire state at once but I don’t personally remember it. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

British army soldiers ‘overreacted’ and lost control’, inquest into shooting dead of five people in Belfast finds. A priest, three teenagers and a man in his 30s were murdered by British soldiers in the Springhill and Westrock areas of west Belfast in July 1972 www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

The Golders Green attacker "was known to the Prevent programme," the Met Police has said after previously confirming he also had a history of serious violent offending A statement said he "was subject to a Prevent referral in 2020, which was closed in the same year" and did not specify the ideology

Some thoughts on the recent fuel protests in Ireland. More Carlist revolt than Jacobin rebellion, in my opinion. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Yet further evidence that the OfS is not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Rising fuel prices in #Ireland have sparked protests – and a new rallying point for the far right. How are these protests being used by international provocateurs? New piece for RightNow! by Shaun McDaid. Read it here: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Ecofascist and Nihilistic Extremism: Taking Stock of Evolving Grievances in Targeted Violence Manifestos

“When Suella Braverman … said in February that she wanted 50% of young people to learn a trade, she merely showed she has no understanding of the modern labour market. Yes, we could do with more plumbers and carpenters, but not 300,000 more a year.” Spot on. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

NEW: Three Reform UK Candidates Appear On Leaked BNP List 📎

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The team at the National Archives of Ireland have done a truly magnificent job on this. It is something meaningful that brings real joy to many. www.rte.ie/history/cens...

How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds Historian @quinnslobodian.com tells Byline Times how governments have subordinated the future of political economy to the direction and desires of Silicon Valley. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...