Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

UK party leaders urged to end ‘pernicious currents’ of hatred fuelling anti-migrant protests

Evocative blog piece today about the on-going trauma associated with mental health treatment: Counter archiving “mental health records” madinireland.com/2025/08/coun... via @Mad_In_Ireland

⚠️72 organizations including @amnesty.org call on the Greek government to immediately withdraw unlawful provisions that suspend access to asylum. @ec.europa.eu must take urgent measures end to this violation in line with its responsibilities under EU law. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.” “I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.” — Francesca Albanese

I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup

Really important piece from János Fiala-Butora of @uniofgalway.bsky.social re mental health reform: Mental health debate in Ireland is reinforcing old clichés to allow forced treatment madinireland.com/2025/07/ment...

This is very bad news. What's more incredible is that EPP could have outbid the far right and didn't. The complacency around the threat posed by the far-right to Europe's climate agenda is shocking. www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Roughly 98% of people crossing the channel seek asylum, and the vast majority get it. The main reason for them doing so is because they have existing ties to the UK, although these may not, on paper, be strong enough to count directly for family reunification. 2/

Migrant rights activist @zoejardiniere.bsky.social giving Labour and the Tories both barrels on their failure - and cruelty - around migrants in the UK. We need politicians who don't punch down to distract from their own failures. We need a change.

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 The Inter-American Court of Human Right’s long-anticipated Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency + Human Rights was released last week: Countries need to adopt concrete, science-based measures to progressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, agriculture + deforestation

Thanks to the Simon Cumbers media fund for funding this trip to Barbuda to highlight how the island is being exploited for private profit against the wishes of local people. Thanks also to @glanlaw.bsky.social and all of the people who assisted and spoke to me www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

Gaza film’s producer accuses BBC of trying to gag him over decision to drop it

"Tougher border policies" have been shown for years to force more people into more dangerous irregular routes. With scrapping the Afghan Resettlement Scheme Labour has shown it's not serious about reducing channel crossings. If it was it would be implementing safer and simpler routes to seek asylum.

Beyond control: Why compassion, not coercion, is the path to healing suffering madinireland.com/2025/07/beyo... via @Mad_In_Ireland

Every one of these deaths is on the hands of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio. History should never forget.

It's worth reading this study, which estimates millions of deaths thanks to Musk and Trump's USAID cuts over the next 5 years.

If forced treatment amounts to torture, how can it legally – and morally – be retained? madinireland.com/2025/06/if-f... @mad-in-america.bsky.social

"A right to choice should be enshrined in legislation, and requisite funding must be put into things like family work, peer support, peer-run grassroots organisations, community development, non-medical crisis houses and open dialogue." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Psychiatry cannot be allowed to dominate debate on Mental Health Act www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?

Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack

"Why we need to rethink the medical approach to children’s mental health" @jendaffin.bsky.social madinireland.com/2025/05/why-...

So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need? Will you act now – decisively – to prevent genocide in Gaza and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law? This Council must prevail. Demand this ends.

The Psychological Society of Ireland has said that it does support an outdated claim that the College of Psychiatrists would facilitate “a gold standard” service for children and adolescents in Ireland seeking mental health treatment, it said in a statement. madinireland.com/2025/05/psyc...

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The race to the bottom is on as Starmer delivers his great immigration reset | John Crace

Farage’s immigration hysteria is now setting Labour’s agenda. I’m seriously doubtful - to put it mildly - of the political wisdom of accepting and amplifying Reform’s migration myths 👇🏻

Well worth 5 mins of your time...scary stuff.

"But what happens after the sunrise? When will Ireland treat mental health as a fundamental right, not a privilege earned through charity runs and swims?" madinireland.com/2025/05/dark...

I wrote about climate (in)justice for the @uniofgalway.bsky.social Irish Centre for Human Rights using @naomiaklein.bsky.social disaster capitalism framing as a lens to view what's going on in the tiny Caribbean island of #Barbuda - ichrgalway.org

“Power is vested in one profession when in fact mental health is a messy territory” : madinireland.com/2025/03/powe... via @Mad_In_Ireland

Great to be here with Catherine Connolly and Sadaka Ireland @UniofGalwayLaw organised by @StudentsforOTB @IrishCentreHR 👏 Why is this government, who promised to enact the #OccupiedTerritoriesBill during election campaign, now dragging its feet?

Rethinking mental health in Ireland: Why not a Trieste-style approach? madinireland.com/2025/03/reth... via @Mad_In_Ireland

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵

Was delighted to host the Irish Centre for Human Rights podcast w/ Dr. Charles O’Mahony and Dr. Pat Bracken re the reform of the Mental Health Act and how it fails to align with the the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Tortured death of trans man in western New York echoes notorious 90s killing

RIP Pat Ingoldsby.

Nigel Farage & Liz Truss happy at an event too fascistic even for the political heir to the Le Pens… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Insanity: “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk posted on X, which he owns. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

At Jigsaw, the National Centre for Youth Mental Health in Ireland, we suggest some ways of offering validation that do not depend on diagnostic labels: madinireland.com/2025/02/offe...

Why Our Beliefs About Mental Illness Are Making Stigma Worse A new study finds that biological explanations for mental illness are linked to increased stigma, while attributing struggles to sociopolitical turmoil reduces it. By Richard Sears

“A commitment to ‘never again’ is not reconcilable with support for the AfD,” Mr. Scholz said at the conference on Saturday morning, in an address… Mr. Scholz said the AfD had trivialized Nazi atrocities like the concentration camp at Dachau, which Mr. Vance visited on Friday.”

Vance's speech went down very badly - unequivocally badly. It was extraordinarily poorly judged. He shocked delegates by roundly attacking U.S. allies, including Britain, in a blistering attack decrying misinformation, disinformation, and the rights of free speech. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Guess who’s back?”: the inside story of Nigel Farage’s quest for power. A must read piece on the rise of Reform UK - and what happens next - by our @rowenamason.bsky.social & @benquinn75.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An Australian university has become the first to teach doctors how to help patients who want to safely reduce or stop taking antidepressants and other psychotropic medications. madinireland.com/2025/02/aust...

Hello #Bluesky. 👋 We started Mad in America in 2012 with the aim of critically reviewing the science behind psychiatry and its diagnoses. We provide personal stories, reviews of scientific literature, podcasts, online events and original MIA reporting. Visit us here: www.madinamerica.com

I Am Looking for People I Miss By Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD "I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. She was very funny, beautiful and kind. She was liked by everyone, including the nurses. We became friends at once." https://buff.ly/3PIsIEU

The revolution will be criminalised: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Forensic from Bob Whitaker of Mad in America. Why don't the mainstream media cover this? I honestly can't say.... madinireland.com/2025/01/depr...