How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies? Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...

We are quite smug in this country and like to think we are a haven of democracy, I have thoughts - a🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

🚨BREAKING: We’ve obtained documents showing ALL our passport photos are being secretly searched in a police facial recognition database A national ID system has been built by the backdoor - without the public or parliament’s consent We’re taking action telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

new OCEI decision on forestry annuls DAFM decision and directs release of the information concerned under AIE Regs worth a look in more detail ocei.ie/en/ombudsman-d…

In this FOI request, the Dept of Health refused access to records on the grounds that gathering them would cause a "substantial and unreasonable interference or disruption of [their] work." After internal review - and following payment of a €30 fee - it turned out there were

Many European countries have managed to reduce their CO₂ emissions per capita to below the worldwide average figure, and are now half of even still-developing countries like China. The US, at 14.3 tonnes per person, remains a disaster.

Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bel… via Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Northside Cork city preservation group raising funds for legal battle to stop housing development echolive.ie/corknews/arid-…

My 🆕 article analysing Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta has just been published in European Papers (expanding on an earlier Verfassungsblog post). My conclusion is that the Grand Chamber was right to conclude that Malta's investor citizenship scheme breached EU law,

On the question of Abundance, our failure to produce the essential goods and services needed to address urgent social and ecological crises is not due to government regulation but rather to the fact that capital controls production.

An agreement by Uisce Éireann - Irish Water to connect a new Supermac's motorway plaza to the water network in Ennis, Co Clare is heading for the courts, in what’s believed to be one of the first such challenges of its kind. thejournal.ie/supermacs-enni…

Land Development Agency seeks to block FOI request at High Court irishtimes.com/ireland/housin…