Cool beans. My milk price has fallen by 4c/l this month (Oct - we get paid in arrears). For context that's a fall of 10% to price paid to farmers. For context last October I got paid 11c/l more or 25%. And in October 2023 it was 4c/l less than today. It ain't the farmers profiting here #speirgorm

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

If today’s vote on Omnibus I passes with EPP+ECR+Patriots support, it establishes the operational majority for the rest of von der Leyen's term This will have major economic and societal consequences at the time these groups chose Trump over the EU thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...

Mercosur : les agriculteurs qui manifestent à Toulouse attendent des garanties claires d’Emmanuel Macron

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

The European people want a stronger EU. Numerous surveys and polls show this. Pro-EU parties are successfully pushing back far right across European elections. Yet again the lack of ambition is killing momentum #speirgorm

Net result of breakaway vote is the visual of the Democratic Party bending the knee before an unyielding Trump

Not that we would ever respect a yank who can't differentiate not supporting genocide vs antisemitism but us being pro Russia is laughable. Fake news might be the norm for Americans but we look at facts in Ireland #speirgorm.

"Just in the past 12 months, the group held seven meetings with members of the European Parliament, compared to just one in the five years prior, according to Parliament records." These include MEPs from far-right parties from Germany, Hungary, Czechia, Spain and France.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

John Collison looking at this and thinks “if only Ireland had ambition”

Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever. The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

Really REALLY important that everyone who enjoys #SpéirGhorm goes through these settings and toggles the switch to enable 'rude' posts. Tis a rare one of us who doesn't have a colourful tongue.

Still choosing Boston over Berlin. 🙄 Junketeering waste of space. #speirgorm

So just discovered you can't actually book rail and sail tickets from the UK one way from Ireland anymore due to Holyhead disruptions. What the hell?! So you have to pay double for a rail + ferry ticket. Amazing how quickly the climate crisis has been ignored #speirgorm

We laugh at this stupidity but if you want to learn the real ramifications of this thinking look up the story of Nikolai Vavilov and the ramifications of anti-science getting into agriculture on the Holodomor genocide and soviet famines claiming 5.7-8.7m along with 15-55million in China! #speirgorm

French media on Americans migrating to Ireland, fleeing Trump. 9,600 so far in 2025, 26k applications. Mostly affluent, some with trans kids, English makes it easier. #Speirghorm www.franceinfo.fr/monde/usa/pr...

Just a reminder that as of end of 2024 there are 104,327 landlords in Ireland. Or 2.3% of the adult population. There are 33% of adults renting. So someone explain to me why political parties tiptoe around landlords so much? Beyond the fact 20% of the Dail are landlords themselves #speirgorm

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...

Hot take: I'd support any MEP who'd get any resident of Ireland a discount on the Eurostar #speirgorm

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

🚨 Chancellor Merz is warning: We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either. And yet too many German companies are still doing biz in Russia: Metro, Knauf, Hochland, B.Braun, New Yorker, Zentis, Nivea (Beiersdorf), Boehringer Ingelheim, Liebherr, Ritter Sport, Krüger, August Storck, etc.

What happens when climate ambition meets everyday dependence on the car? That question was at the heart of the #BrownBag seminar at @hertieschool.bsky.social, where Dr @giuliomattioli.bsky.social examined how rising fuel prices affect vulnerable households and what his decade-long research on

More attention needs to be paid to the Russian information war, which is much less costly than their military war yet continues to deliver catastrophic results by influencing the electorates of EU countries to vote for Russian shills and against their own interests. www.kyivpost.com/post/63552

OPEC+ just announced another boost in oil production despite the falling demand for gas and diesel. That's going to hurt U.S. oil producers by keeping oil around $60/bbl which is good because we need to have our oil industry in the U.S. become weaker, less wealthy, even if slows EV uptake here.

So now the Taoiseach and the biggest opposition party are both saying “you’re not allowed to criticise immigration these days“. What overlords are holding their jaws shut exactly? Does “the woke mob” have 85 seats in Dáil Éireann?

15 lousy months?! Even ignoring for one second the distributing violent anti-immigrant angle, they left an animal with a leg removed in agony and another slashed up? How is he not a danger? He'll be out in half that. This leniency is gone too far #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

We have reached peak "NATO expansion propaganda". Jeffrey Sachs claims he was personally told by someone he didn't meet that there was a broken promise to a person who says it wasn't made.

Join our Stop Seapeak Coalition webinar to learn how UK-owned & insured LNG carriers moved £45 bn of Russian #LNG (76% of exports, Feb 2022–Mar 2025), funding bombs hitting Ukrainian cities. The UK must act now. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🇪🇺 Why are EU leaders rushing to deregulate at the exact moment Trump is demanding Europe dismantle its regulations? 📖 Learn more in our latest blog post about the latest episode of EU Scream with James Kanter: thegoodlobby.eu/ungoverning-...

“Aviation greenhouse gas emissions amount to around 10% of Ireland’s total and have increased 500% since 1990, while the population grew just 44%.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The best thing about the Dutch elections is that a guy who wants to build entire new cities got elected. When the thrifty Dutch elect someone like that, then you know the austerity era of European politics may finally be over.

Folks check in on your local conspiracy nut, that crazy neighbour shouting at the sky afraid of long clouds, or your uncle who thinks he's magnetic. They're having a terrible week discovering Bill Gates is on their side on climate change now & mainstream parties getting in on immigration #speirgorm

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"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life" Simone de Beauvoir. 1/2

He's really speed running right wing populism isn't he. Will we find out in a couple of months his new secret advisor is a suspicious looking fella called Niall O'Farage? #Speirgorm

My take on what 🇳🇱 elections may mean for 🇪🇺 @ Politico.eu “What is already clear is that the Dutch electorate voted far more pro-European than it did in 2023. […] Euroskepticism that once dominated the political mood has given way to a quiet mandate for cooperation” www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Would this not qualify as terrorism? #speirgorm

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants. No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry My piece www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

In great ecological news (and terrible pigeon news) I confirmed 'my' sparrowhawk has returned to the farm for another year. Walking home I spotted my buzzard hunting too, not one but two good indicators! #speirgorm

Can't ignore the level of media attention either, just saying #speirgorm #EU

RTE always has a habit of calling the English king 'the king', wasnt aware we had a king. Why is he 'the king' and not the lad in Spain or the Dutch one. Bit of a Freudian slip #speirgorm

“The far right can only govern if the centre right cooperates”, @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social says. “Everyone claims the voters shift to the far right but it is a rightward shift of the political parties.”

Dutch elections can be confusing due to the sheer number of parties involved. Broadly though it was a shift back to the centre and splintering of the far right after the mess the far right VVD made of government. Parties like D66, a centrist and CDA centre-right regained a lot. #speirgorm