Siri: define literary fiction.

Third week in a row at no.1 in Ireland (and by a mile) James Hawes's The Shortest History of Ireland.

‘Deeply impressive'
IRISH TIMES

'A thrilling ride... wonderful, never less than remakable'
IRISH INDEPENDENT

@jameshawes.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @independent.ie

Thank you!

Unbelievable but true. Third successive weekend at no.1 in #Ireland!

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

The Brexit delusion is dead – so now Keir Starmer doesn’t need to pretend any more | Rafael Behr To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

On the limits of trying to unpick Brexit by stealth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What do these companies have in common?

-Block
-Citigroup
-Coinbase
-CVS
-Dominion Energy
-Disney
-Halliburton
-Hasbro
-HP
-Kohl's
-Live Nation
-Palantir
-Paypal
-PG&E
-Southwest Airlines
-Tesla
-United Airlines

They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.

The central motto for today’s international politics:

Follow the oil money

What he said.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Go #Hungary!

Very weekend-making! @irishtimes.com today…

know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been - fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number thing One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon - Because they have one thing in common, Low I@s. They're stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don't have what it takes, and they never did! They've all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren't even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they're NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some "free" and cheap publicity. Now they think they get some "clicks" because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody's talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA - Or I wouldn't have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE MAGA agrees with me, and just gave CNN a 100% Approval Rating of "TRUMP," not Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he's never been the same - Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist! Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous, "Only Rosie 0'Donnel," question, or "Crazy" Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit,. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it's not even close! Or Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax. These so-called "pundits" are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left "News" Organizations, are "hailing" them, and giving the…

Nurse!

Oh fffs NURSE!!!

NURSE!!!

“We in Europe”

www.instagram.com/reel/DW6W-Jg...

This is quite fascinating, especially about Epstein’s Russian links and the details that the UK as well as the US has yet to confront

Putin's Puppet Project in Peril - emptywheel JD Vance took time out of Trump's Crusades against Iran to tamper in Hungary's election not just because Viktor Orbán is the ideological figurehead of the far right, but because Hungary serves as a ke...

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network”
emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

Everything is now essentially Long Seventeenth Century but somehow a worse version of it ...

#earlymodern #skystorians

Wer sich jetzt über das Ausmaß der ausfallenden & teil wirren Postings aus dem Weißen Haus wundert, hätte im Wahlkampf seine Auftritte, Postings & Reden genauer studieren sollen. Keine Ausschnitte oder Zitate, sondern den Originalcontent. Dieses Verhalten war absehbar.

“A street car passenger requires an average of only six square feet of street space; an automobile passenger requires eight times as much.”

Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England’s endless lies Spring holiday reads 4/

"Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England’s endless lies"
Holiday read from me on why one of England’s greatest novelists turned against her country

Good morning from #Ireland!

It‘s a wonderful book and I hope to God everyone in a position of power in this country reads it.

Well the banner is up. Nothing more nerve-wrecking than to send your manuscript to people you respect & wait for their opinion. V.grateful to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @ciaranm.bsky.social @gavinesler.bsky.social and especially the generous @jameshawes.bsky.social for supporting my book.

Certainly. But I think people are so used to the all-or-nothing model of voting that when it comes to the moment, in the silence of the ballot box, it will still feel like a choice- moment

A united Ireland? It’s more tricky than it sounds A new history finds divisions that predate colonialism - and suggests that the future might be federal

In the UK press at last!

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-hawes-...

The tactical-voting result will be spectacular.

Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…

This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.

So the goal is to travel back in time and prevent Trump from tearing up the JCPOA that Obama worked out that already delivered all these things?

Super. Good luck with that, Petey.

One of my most exasperating moments of canvassing was a guy, in a Victorian terrace, say the biggest issue for him was parking, and then "You see, we have four cars in this house".