Hundreds of thousands of Irish people in the north of Ireland, EU citizens, are exposed by this fascist posturing. 1/4 of our island is chained to the consequences of this rapid degeneration in British politics.

I love this guy man, and how I yearn for such a full-throated, angry, and yet unapologetically compassionate response to the cancer of hatred that's spreading in Ireland too.

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New CCAC #climate report covered on multiple RTÉ news bulletins just now, incl. Morning Ireland interview with chair, Marie Donnelly. Total mentions of agriculture, Ireland’s largest source of emissions: zero.

I really hope so. 'The book is a key tool in the struggle for environmental justice framed by a vision of a better, fairer Ireland in a better, fairer world.’ Robbie McVeigh www.connollybooks.org/product/from...

I never understood this line of attack - if Labour are already delivering absolutely nothing to meaningfully change society or motivate political passions, why would people care about being let down elsewhere?

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

“There is a question that hovers over Irish politics: what will the parties of power do when they start to panic about losing it? Last week, after their joint debacle in the presidential election, we got the grim answer: turn on immigrants.” - @fotoole.bsky.social

Is there a single mainstream party in Ireland a) with an ounce of moral fortitude to oppose blaming immigrants for failures of government policy, and b) paying attention to evidence across Europe that this strategy is a road to ruin?

Strike and demo in Barcelona - solidarity with global Sumud Flotilla.

Pat Brodie and I have a book launch event for 'From the Bog to the Cloud' in London on October 22nd. Please come along if you're interested in bogs, data centres, monopoly tech, postcolonial development, eco-imperialism, green capitalism, Ireland.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aa-book-la...

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

📚 The latest CUSP Newsletter is out! Alongside a round-up of news from across our network, CUSP co-director @timjackson.org.uk reflects on the Centre’s 10th anniversary—and warns of a troubling shift in research funding away from #postgrowth inquiry. ➡️ share.sender.net/campaigns/bI... cc #degrowth

How will we use our time in a #postgrowth future of sustainable wellbeing?—New study by @seanfearon.bsky.social et al models how lifestyle choices to 2050 could shape wellbeing and emissions in Finland, France & UK. ➡️ cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/sf... cc #Degrowth #WellbeingEconomy #PlanetaryBoundaries

Check out the preprint of our new paper, exploring the time use requirements for a life of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The bottom line? Lifestyle changes can lower emissions & improve wellbeing, but are insufficient to live well within ecological limits. We need radical system change.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

On Thursday I’ll travel as an independent observer of the latest Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Alongside human rights lawyers and international law experts, our role is to monitor and record any breaches of international law by Israel. These flotillas act where the international community has failed 🇵🇸

two in three Keir Starmer tweets are dog whistling about migration. A government out of ideas, adopting far right messages for no political gain, while imprisoning grannies for denouncing genocide.

The fact that we instantly ended homelessness during the pandemic, and then let it return as some intractable problem straight after, is something we really don’t talk about enough.

Next time someone says data centres are necessary. Microsoft data centres in Ireland & Netherlands were used to store terrabytes of Israeli military data used for mass surveillance in the West Bank and identification of strike targets in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

2. Absurdity is a hallmark of authoritarianism. It's not just that those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. It's also that those who endorse atrocities become absurd. This is where Keir Starmer's government now finds itself.

This is the Moygashel 12th July bonfire. Many bonfires receive huge funding and backing from loyalist paramilitary groups. The PSNI facilitate this and councils clean up after them. This paramilitary backed hate is being justified live on BBC Radio Ulster. The state is rotten to the core.

Things you love to see. The Gaza walk from Lurgan to Newry earlier tonight. Well done to all involved 🇮🇪 ✊🇵🇸

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.* We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

An excellent writeup. These are repulsive double standards from the British state, guilty of all manner of state terror, to young Irish artists. They represent a proud & radical political culture which does not conform to the sterile & 'Paddy'fied shadow of Irishness acceptable to liberal Britain.

Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex. The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social. Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp

Good to be home.

Incredible. A hospital complex bombed, scores of medics & civilians massacred, yet the image chosen to accompany this massacre isn’t the broken bodies of victims but rather, random militants waving AK-47s. Media complicity costs lives.

Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.

A bizarre thing to glimpse into the scale of disruption in a large city caused by total power outage, when everything - travel, infrastructure, past times, homes - depends upon it. You can only begin to think of the consequences for some of the largest cities on earth in a climate-changed world.

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

For anyone in and around @maynoothuniversity.ie next Wednesday (30th April), Kevin Anderson is giving a talk on his recently published book - with Eamon Slater, Eoin Flaherty, Chandana Mathur and myself. t.co/2mzwRpsl0l

''Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.'' -Joan Robinson

scrapping it would add GBP 2.5bn yearly to government spending. That is 25bn over ten years. Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio. It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated.

A comeback for the ages at Old Trafford. Manchester United, who trailed 10-man Lyon 4-2 with six minutes remaining, win 5-4 on the night and 7-6 on aggregate thanks to Harry Maguire's late winner. Have you ever seen anything like that? Incredible.

Football, fucking hell

Maybe the craziest game I've ever seen. Definitely the daftest half hour of football.

For the first time since WWII an extreme right party is #1 in the German polls. Anti-fascist economic policy is urgently needed. Instead the new coalition agenda entails: - cut profit tax - end 8 hr workday - open tap for defense, austerity for the rest - weaken social security

In today’s @irishnews.com , full page ad from @daera-ni.gov.uk minister Andrew Muir about his Lough Neagh Action Plan. In the ‘everyone can help’ bit-all about what households can do- not 1 mention of the root cause of the Lough’s crisis- large scale beef & dairy farming Go figure #InactionPlan

Only one thin, vertical segment remains of Dunbeacon tower house (castle) on the Mizen Peninsula, West Cork, silhouetted against a sparkling Dunmanus Bay. Built by the O'Mahony clan around 1420-70, it was destroyed in the 1580s 2nd Desmond Rebellion against English rule. A window through time.

Someone had to do it

"The climate and ecological implications of this shift are as disastrous as they are deliberate. We need an appropriate name for this new era of fossil and tech bros accelerating attacks on democracy and the planet: cataclysm capitalism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe.

A Labour government aligning with neofascists to demonise the (welfare) state, I've seen everything now.

Hear the sirens. If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.