You'd have to be an idiot to fail just like the old scientific communism tests

Deans and assistant deans wouldn't fit in the picture

The next time @news.rte.ie @rteradio1.bsky.social @drivetime.bsky.social have Geoff Roberts on to spout the latest Kremlin line about Ukraine could they ask him who paid for his trip to the illegally annexed Crimea to attend a 'Congress to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Yalta Conference'? 1/

Comedy gold from Medvedev, the samogon must have been extra strong

Good job @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social, very well presented digest of Russian politics

Andrew Shorten’s new paper on Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishmentAmerican Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @andrewshorten.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

How can liberal #democracies respond to the rise of right-wing #populism? Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views by Gabriele Badano & @alasianuti.bsky.social (Oxford Academic) reviewed by @andrewshorten.bsky.social @politics-ul.bsky.social 👇

It was a bomb in our house

Richard Hofstadter is supposed to have once said ‘Other countries have ideologies, America is an ideology’. Perhaps a mobilised one after today.

I like to imagine that as Trump finished Xi picked up a phone, said ‘Release the next virus’ and then laughed maniacally.

The gender divide in young Irish people’s political attitudes #Irishpolitics

Never, ever buy a VanMoof bike. Overpriced, badly made, poor service provision (not the local service providers, the main company’s decisions cripple them).

At least these was some hope when the Greens backed up FF/FG. FF/FG backed up by gobshites (damn spell check, that should have read independents) less so. #GE24

Academic colleagues, please consider signing this. The growing repression of academic freedom is part of the wider authoritarian moves by the election-stealing, Putin-backed government of Georgia. Our Georgian colleagues and their students need our solidarity. ruta-association.org/news/open-le...

What might happen in #GE24 in Limerick. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Still time to find out who to vote for or to change your mind

I’d forgotten about this lackwit but of course he’s back. A good day for the terrorists.

New UL research finds that many voters who used the app WhichCandidate – founded by Dr Rory Costello, lecturer in UL’s Department of Politics & Public Administration – switched their initial voting preference in favour of a different candidate ul.ie/news/whichca... #GE24 #Election24 #SpeirGorm

More personnel problems for Moscow Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine

The 2024 Irish general election is only days away. But how did your area vote in 2020? And how does that look with the new constituency boundaries? Find out more here ianrichardson.shinyapps.io/GE2020_Resul... with this interactive map of 1st preference votes.

The US has a much higher stake in Russia's war on Ukraine than most people think. As Americans consider the costs of continuing to help Ukraine fight the Russians in the coming years, they deserve a careful consideration of the costs of allowing Russia to win. DEC 2023 report: isw.pub/Ukraine121423

They have to be short of men if they are forgiving R100 mill debts, giving large leave allowances etc. www.kommersant.ru/doc/7326190

Coverage for Rory Costello’s Which Candidate voter app www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

I found myself re-reading Richard Hofstader this morning and - sadly and once again - something written before I was born seems to sum up contemporary politics in the USA and Russia (probably also Hungary and Turkey and India and ... add your own cases) best.

A good translation of Putin's speech

I don’t think that I have ever felt as detached from an election as I do from #GE24. All my emotion was used up by the UK and US elections plus it looks like we’ll get more of the same - moderate incompetence and short-termism from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

I was lucky to be in Vienna last week and caught this exhibition of incredible charcoal on paper works by @robertlongo.bsky.social

Ukraine, not ‘the’ Ukraine, free to read for a month. A history of the #Ukraine

1000 days of Russia’s War 1000 days of Russian war crimes 1000 days of Ukrainian survival, resistance, & now resilience 1000 days of a 3 day war because Ukraine fights back …Because «ми тут» (we’re here), «ми є» (we exist) & «все буде Україна» (Ukraine will live on forever) C/o Zelensky’s telegram

Those who forget the past as doomed to repeat it

Rory Costello's which candidate voter app is now up and running for #GE24 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...