Ben Fraser
@benfraser.bsky.social
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Sometimes I write:
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/no-spoilers-7281a74cd825
New piece: I wrote about the role gender plays in the way men are voting and in our politics more broadly:
medium.com/@ben_fraser/...
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Vote Angry, Vote Often
Gender and the spoiled vote.
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/vote-angry-vote-often-f0a3e14375b7
16 days ago
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I cannot wait to read this.
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about 1 month ago
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Exceptional, searing column from Mark O’Connel.
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about 2 months ago
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Patrick Freyne
about 2 months ago
So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all
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"As the left-wing bloc of opposition parties revels in Connolly’s victory as a signal of broader change... Ireland continues to buck trends in both European politics and globally." Great piece from
@unamullally.bsky.social
on what the Presidential says about Ireland's international posture/profile.
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about 2 months ago
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Daryl Feehely
about 2 months ago
"Watching the post-election story unfold, it is hard to avoid the feeling that political exclusion is only a problem if the wrong people are being excluded." 🎯 in this excellent piece on
#Áras25
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@benfraser.bsky.social
#IrishPol
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Una Mullally
about 2 months ago
Another good piece of writing from
@benfraser.bsky.social
on how the story of
#Aras25
has shifted to focus not on a left-wing victory, but on right-wing grievances. "If they wanted a right-wing candidate, they need only have followed the rules and nominated one."
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No Spoilers
How the story of the Presidential Election has been reworded
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/no-spoilers-7281a74cd825
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Joe Noonan
about 2 months ago
"It is worth reflecting on what impact this broad-spectrum poisoning of the well had on this election and the lasting effects it may have on our politics." If voting changed anything, they would de-legitimise it.
#Áras25
#VotingTheRightWay
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I wrote about how the post-election story is being written and for whom. You can read it here:
medium.com/@ben_fraser/...
#speirgorm
#Aras25
#Aras2025
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No Spoilers
How the story of the Presidential Election has been reworded
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/no-spoilers-7281a74cd825
about 2 months ago
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Really interesting, smart analysis.
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about 2 months ago
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Una Mullally
2 months ago
I enjoyed reading this thought-provoking essay on the
#Aras25
campaigns by
@benfraser.bsky.social
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A Presidential Show
The campaigns testing the limits of our credulity
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/a-presidential-show-72780b10fb9c
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I wrote about the Presidential campaign and the test is has posed to our collective credulity:
medium.com/@ben_fraser/...
#Áras25
#SpeirGorm
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A Presidential Show
The campaigns testing the limits of our credulity
https://medium.com/@ben_fraser/a-presidential-show-72780b10fb9c
2 months ago
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Daryl Feehely
2 months ago
"...they have found it hard to dislodge the public from their basic assumption that Connolly is, most likely, exactly what she looks like: an unpretentious Irishwoman of significant talent & well-documented principle." Great piece by
@benfraser.bsky.social
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#Áras25
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Annie West
2 months ago
This is terrific from
@benfraser.bsky.social
medium.com/@ben_fraser/...
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Aoife Gallagher
6 months ago
New from my colleague
@disinfozo.bsky.social
at
@isdglobal.org
examining the emerging alliances between Irish far-right groups (so called "nationalists") south of the border with Northern Irish loyalists and the British far-right:
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
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Emerging cross-border dynamics in Ireland's anti-migrant mobilisation
Anti-migrant sentiments have united former foes on both sides of the Irish border. Northern Irish Loyalists and Irish Republicans have voiced online support for each other and crossed the Irish border...
https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/emerging-cross-border-dynamics-in-irelands-anti-migrant-mobilisation/
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What Mamdani has done, with support from AOC and Bernie, is make the sides in the fight clear. It's the cynical, regressive uniparty of the oligarchy against the hope of ordinary people. And while that's expressed in wildly different ways in different contexts, this is the division that matters now.
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