Complicit cowards. Unwilling to critique American actions of aggression. Sickening stuff. No such hesitancy, and rightly so, when it comes to russian acts of imperialist aggression.

She is not ‘taking on Reform’ she is sinking to their level. There’s a difference. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Thank God Muslim voters in Manchester overwhelmingly decided to vote for the female candidate in the party led by a proud gay Jew, then. Guess your analysis is wrong!

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

A woman whose infant brother died in the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork has expressed shock at a decision by the city council to grant planning permission for apartments on the site. jrnl.ie/6967750

Genuinely shocked to read about proposals at Galway (an amazing university with world-class humanities departments) to axe the broad-based arts degree. Really grim reading. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

weird how every time a "moderate liberal" party cites "electoral realities" for embracing fascist policies they get shit canned 🙃

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Another way of looking at this is that when times are tough, money is tight and elites are hard pressed due to e.g. abysmal corruption scandals, they tend to drop the polite facade and move towards overt enforcement archive.ph/SNpXO

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

They’re good actually? Easily the least offensive Irish American novelty food I had consumed.

Herself is bringing me home a box of these from Pennsylvania. Reserving judgment. #SpeirGorm

2026 basically

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

The Green Party wishes a happy and peaceful Ramadan to everyone celebrating in the UK and around the world. Ramadan Mubarak.

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Can’t believe we are still doing this

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Think about what that library could do with an extra $2 million a year

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026 We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I think if more people had been following @janelleshane.com over the years we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Also I miss the days when language models were hilarious

Well now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nearly 800 staff left the University of Edinburgh last year as senior management pushes a £140m savings drive This hits precarious staff hardest It's a great comfort to learn that senior management pay & bonuses are unaffected 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2582884...

"Irish government officials have so far avoided answering questions about if the treatment of the migrants on the flights violates Irish law." - @gbrockell.bsky.social

A cyclist who was driven over twice by a woman taking an illegal right-hand turn has said he is “still tortured by the sound of my breaking bones” jrnl.ie/6954079

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.

We’d a good show last night on @tonightvmtv.bsky.social, digging in to the case of Irish citizens detained under ICE in the US and whether the government’s own policies undermine its efforts to address them.

Full story, on disruptions to core funding streams raising fears for a “generation” of early career researchers, by @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social @fionamcintyre.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Post a banger not in English. youtu.be/-u2YoX1d8Sc?...

1) Minister Norma Foley has finally published the 'Mother & Baby Institutions Payment Scheme' annual report for 2024. Just a few initial observations: ❓It's Feb 2026 - why the delay in publication? 📖 It's just 22 pages long, which means it's low on details. This is deeply troubling.

The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

This nicely illustrates the difference between Irish and English newspaper profiles of political types. Tells you who he is related to, better equipping the reader to draw “seed, breed and generation“ conclusions. Siding against Corbyn/the revolution is also very FG behaviour… lol.

What an amazing course.

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

Tomorrow's Headlines The Telegraph: Starmer Next! The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God! The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home

🎵Comrade in the back said "everyone attack!" And it turned into a dildo blitz!🎵

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“Transformative reparations by public bodies” needed to address Tinker Experiment human rights abuses.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is calling for a programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers, who were subjected to decades of forced assimilation and ongoing harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’.

Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

Stronger together ✊ Hear from #LboroUCU members on why union membership matters and how we support each other. Be part of it: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/join/ @ucu.org.uk #UCU #JoinAUnion

There's a simple solution for Labour here: use that parliamentary majority to introduce PR.

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election