Keir Starmer’s role in the negotiations:

Everyone knows where the guys leading the fuel protests are coming from. We can look forward to our worst newspaper columnists telling us that's not who they are at all this weekend.

That Trump et al thought they could make the Catholic Church an ally is another testament to their ignorance. Why would the Church take the side of an administration packed with people from evangelical churches? Its new direction isn't a whim of the current Pope but a sound tactical decision

Over 40% of the world's catholics live in Latin America. Almost a third live in either Africa, where numbers are growing rapidly, or Asia. The USA has about 5%. The Church's anti-imperialist stance makes sense because its future is with the Global South. The US is irrelevant by comparison.

Will be blocking the path from the kitchen to the living room until the daughters stop beating me at Uno.

A ceasefire deal apparently constructed with the same care as a household rota on who does the dishes.

The worst thing about the Michael Jackson revival will be hearing BBC and RTE newsreaders say the words, "King of Pop," like it was an actual royal title.

The ides that people can be fact checked into virtue and that Fake News is the main culprit for the rightward turn is an illusion. A lot of people seek out Fake News precisely because is confirms their worst prejudices. Its veracity doesn't matter to them. they just want something they can quote.

Wouldn't you love to play a few hands of poker with Trump? You'd surely come away with at least one hotel.

Imagine having a leader like this.

It looks more like the Fr. Dougal Maguire complete eejit theory from here.

In addition to the debate over whether anti-Zionism is or is not inherently antisemitic, there are also those people who appear to believe that *only* anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

Someone should let Iran know.

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

A very British tradition this - the right to see a big cat, in the dark, on a cold winter's evening, not take a photograph, and claim it was an escaped jaguar is a firm right for all Godfearing Englishmen. It's probably in Magna Carta or something.

A vote for Trump was a weapon pointed at the rest of the world. Everyone - yes, every single person - who cast that vote knew that and cast it anyway. The excuse of ignorance will not wash, because Trump's monstrosity was on every available broadcast and his voters indulged it. It's simple as that.

Trump may have delivered Iran its biggest victory since the revolution.

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Right folks as one of the few farmers on here let me explain something really simple. We're currently in the busiest time of year, calving & lambing is ongoing and crops need tending The awful weather means contractors are also flat out So how representative do you think this lad is? #speirgorm

I am SUPER late to the party on this but ‘Nimona’ is a smart, poignant, funny, and wildly charming film.

Pure ignorant entitlement.

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” -- Dom Helder Camara

The assembly of tractors is causing the sort of chaos & damage to businesses in the city centre that business groups said was only possible with the introduction of bicycle lanes.

Also stupidly

It'd be great if the BBC commemorated the anniversary by showing Ken Loach''s Days of Hope series from 1975, one of the best things they and he ever did. youtu.be/FJn3EiDODoY?...

In short, it's not coming back. 🇪🇺, esp. 🇮🇪 owing to the common language and family, have fooled ourselves that the US was similar, all while it drifted from common values. We need independent hard security, and to secure our democracies and societies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Latest watch. Rare semi-conventional movie by experimental giant Jon Jost. Meditation on art, looking at it, buying it, selling it, wrapped up in Rohmeresque romance between beautiful people. Made me long to see Vermeers and visit Anthology Film Archives. youtu.be/aNqyGiNHGC0?...

The only kind of Friction Maxxing worth trying. youtu.be/vkXDUMQ6nLM?...

I want to talk about East Cork seaside towns but Youghal ain't ready for that conversation.

You know that these fuel protests have far right loons at the heart of them because the Guards and the media are treating them like they are family members airing a grievance at Christmas dinner instead of calling for the army to shell them

Trump paying tribute to old English games by playing Chess Dimensional Fives.

West Wing now seems a more outlandish fantasy than anything from the pen of George RR Martin. It probably always was.

The new American craze. Friction-Maxxing. Or as we call it here, making a small bit of an effort.

"Y'all," always makes me feel like I'm being harangued about the poor standard of European customer service by a man wearing a green jumper and trousers combo.

Small Irish towns checking the parish records so they can hold festivals celebrating their lack of ancestral connection to Sean Hannity et al.

Graffiti, "Iran Away" appearing on walls of Republican strongholds in US.

Chagrin from American liberals about some mild chiding remarkable to behold. Real "Don't you know who we are," energy. They cannot imagine why anyone would have qualms about their country's economic, military and cultural hegemony.

Installing a filter which blocks posts including the words, "Y'all." Feel it may improve the social media experience.

Whatever your opinion of Trump he has achieved the greatest military victory since Napoleon conquered the island of St Helena.

Good of that rural performance art troupe to provide much needed distraction for the citizens of Dublin at such a fraught time. Macnas would have been proud of their exuberant tractor based absurdism.

The fate of the frat boy media pocket square protest remains unclear. Though there can be little doubt it played a part in forcing Trump to back down. Captains oh my captains.

Will Michael Martin go down in history as the last foreign leader to be yucking it up with Trump as he went full fascist? I think Americans should probably be ashamed at what's been being done in their name. But as an Irish person I'm ashamed at what was done on Patricks Day in ours.

Saw Dr. Strangelove getting a few mentions today. This might be more appropriate. Same scenario without the laughs. youtu.be/oicYUhgff7Q?...

'Will you stand for western civilisation" says the man from an administration making. joke of the concept. If he'd been in Budapest in 1945 he'd have been hunting down Jews with the Arrow Cross.

He doesn't even have a crypto wallet.

Just when we thought he was out of the rackets, he dragged himself back in.

The vice-president of the United States on a desperate mission to save Putin's fifth column in Europe