What's extraordinary about capitalism is that it produces inequality and ecological breakdown and then tries to sell itself as the only reasonable solution to inequality and ecological breakdown.

Heartbroken listening to David, 62 yr old forklift driver in North Dublin who, with his partner, being evicted from their rented home in 8 weeks. They were looking forward to their golden years retiring in a place they could call home. Listen Reboot Republic open.spotify.com/episode/0gloD0…

Our new book - written by Jonathan Evershed and I - has a title which seems more apt than ever today. It will be published on St Patrick's Day and is available for pre-order now agendapub.com/books/160/a-tr…

I'm very proud to have been involved in this and delighted to see it published today! Theresa Reidy 🇺🇦 Mary C. Murphy @clharris_ucc maggie oneill #CeaseFireNow @dottymurf 🍉 @ToniHaastrup link.springer.com/article/10.105…

If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

Buckle up. Come on a tour of London with a difference and find out how Putin's oligarchs hide and spend their money in the capital. Money-laundering expert Oliver Bullough is your guide. 💰

Am working on conceptualisation of EU that seeks to get beyond the binary-it is intergovernmental or supranational, is it strong or weak? Brigid Laffan The Irish Times

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Kurt Vonnegut

Happening right now UCD Library, hundreds if not thousands of books and journals being thrown directly into a bin lorry. Some will counterargue that many volumes, especially journals, are now superceded by digital editions. However, lots of older valuable books being tossed. A🧵:

My analysis of a transformative moment for Europe The Irish Times we can’t predict the future but the 24th of February will alter Europe’s security architecture, enlargement and the green transition

We have a new paper coming out tomorrow in The Lancet Planetary Health that quantifies national responsibility for global ecological breakdown due to excess resource use. Stay tuned for the results (which are disturbing), and some useful interactive graphics.

Bandon’s best! 😍 Conor Hourihane smashes home!! 💥

We’re reaching a bit of a tipping point in the Ukraine War. A thread.

Quite the put down!

When a country cannot manage to pass basic regulations to prevent the massacre of schoolchildren - over several decades - it is a failed state.

This🧵 well worth a read while we're waiting to find out the result...

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Capitalism — and the capitalist growth imperative — is the root cause of climate breakdown.

What is Kwasi Kwarteng really up to? One answer: this is a reckless gamble to shrink the state | Adam Tooze theguardian.com/commentisfree/…