“Missing the Industrial Revolution was the Best Thing that Ever Happened to the Irish.” - IDA advertisement in The Economist in 1986

Whatever happens, whether or not we get to Gaza, it’s been an honor to document this wild month-long journey. The fundamental reason I am sailing on this boat, however, is for these kids in this picture and the kids in Gaza still, who are not alone.

“Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms—a loan, food aid, blackmail. We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.” Today we remember the great Thomas Sankara who was lost on this day in 1987.

Protest against the Irish Government's decision to join NATO's Partnership for Peace in 1999. Fianna Fáil reneged on their election manifesto not to join the PfP. The drawing - first step PfP, then EU military integration, then NATO, then the end. The erosion of our neutrality.

Heather Humphreys presents an award to Noel McMahon, whose ex-wife told the Morris tribunal, ‘He put a gun to my head and he told me he would blow my brains out’ – that gun referring to his official firearm.

Each time I click an Irish Times article and I get the paywall I feel a small wave of relief

Remembering today the po-faced sanctification of professional codes of practice and opposition to widening their public contestability (by FG,FF,NUJ) when Sinn Féin timidly suggested an editorial review of public service broadcast conflict reporting before the general election.

Tomorrow! IPSC is holding a demo at the Dáil, calling for the Central Bank to completely cease all regulation of Israeli sovereign bonds. Please support, if you can!

Further heartbreak for the families of the Bloody Sunday victims today as the British Justice System lets their rabid dog, soldier F, off the hook to live out the rest of his life peacefully as the families of those he murdered have to endure the pain of his actions on…

Pat Brodie and I will be talking to Conor McCabe and Eugenia Siapera @[email protected] in Connolly books for our Dublin book launch on Wednesday 26th November. Looking forward to it!

Rent seekers and speculators who owe their wealth to financialised societies built to prioritise and maximise returns on non-productive capital are now bemused these societies aren’t great at delivering infrastructure

There is no way that anyone could find this vacuous op-ed, padded out to nearly 3,000 words without saying anything memorable, remotely interesting, let alone "brilliant." This exercise in crawling is a job application for billionaire largesse from Peter Thiel's Irish disciples.

Given the choice between a balanced DCC budget that boosts maintenance by raising rates on the most profitable businesses in our city, and the ruling group’s plan to slam ordinary people with rent hikes, the Green Party and Labour still lined up behind Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.

Devastating news about Asad Haider. He was an inspiration - Viewpoint dug up buried treasures of Marxist theory, not as an end in itself but to enrich our political imagination, as his PhD thesis and his book on race and class brilliantly showcased share.google/kZdw3SOcFV86Kf…

Every day you outdo yourself in your failure to be an honest public service broadcaster. You speak with the voice of the masters of the universe still riding high in a system in decline yet still able to wreak havoc on its way down. Shame.

The global situation now is an American fossil fuel hegemony, controlling reserves and production across North and South America, allied with authoritarian religious slave state oil powers in the Arabian peninsula and gulf

The claim that totality does not exist is every bit as metaphysical as the claim that it does. In any case, every actual explanation that wants to move beyond the realm of mere description must act as if the world were an intelligible whole.

"Underlying [Ernst] Bloch’s argument is the idea that society is criss-crossed by plural temporalities; the class structure of modern capitalism is shadowed by multiple cultural and historical times that do not exist synchronously." (Late Fascism, p. 5)

Was that Adam Tooze querying Howard Lutnick at Davos?