New, at Can We Still Govern?: Christian Gläßel and
@ascharpf.bsky.social have studied the formation of secret police in other countries. They explain the parallels with Trump's immigration enforcement.
The key factor is career incentives not ideology. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-secret...
A long auld haul from Capel Street!
God, that’s even worse! Think I may have to find some proper search engines and subscribe if necessary.
Ireland has a great symbolic opportunity to do so in a few days time when Trump hosts the Taoiseach at the White House on St Patrick’s Day. Doubt Micheal has the cojones, though.
There’s a lot more but you get the picture (or not, since I couldn’t upload more than one at a time…)
I asked Google and here is what it told me:
WTF has gone wrong with internet search? It is utterly crap. An image on Bluesky reminded me of a poem by Thomas Kinsella that was on my Leaving Cert curriculum: A Garden on the Point. Typed it in and got endless slop about rooftop gardens and restaurants. No link to Kinsella despite the full title.
There is a perverse logic to this. Trending to net emigration, as Labour policy follows Reform’s, means so many fewer people paying the NICS that funds the state pension so it makes sense to cut off the supply of pensioners. Managed decline presented as controlled immigration.
So glad to hear you’ve had no poisonous comments here (though I’m sure there are snakes in the undergrowth) and even gladder that you’re surviving and thriving.
"I didn't get a harrumph from that guy"
I know the feeling. Forty years in England and I think I’ve only just got the idea that take is an actual verb. I thought it was just a spare word. Meanwhile, he’s just got into a black cab with a “howiya”. Excellent!
Watching Wonders of the Moon presented by Dara O’Briain and as part of his intro he says “I want to bring you to the moon”. Reassuringly Irish. None of your British takes.
Congratulations!
Inconsiderate but insufficient to upset the natural order of things to be read.
I’m thinking of the early introduction of CAD into architecture. There was a time where it simply allowed us to produce more information than was necessary to communicate the same message to building contractors. It took a while before that capability was applied to newly useful information.
Well, first, I was paraphrasing another person’s comment that had some overlap, however passing, with the headline. Second, there is a real point about how new technology enables a certain expenditure of time and effort that might not be essential to achieve the same outcomes, even if temporary.
Not entirely but it’s also true that clothes were washed less frequently in the days before the convenience of every day laundry. I can remember scrubbing a shirt collar to get another day or two of wearing out of it. Fragrant times…
Can’t access the article as I don’t have a premium subscription but it sounds like that old Germaine Greer comment about the arrival of affordable washing machines. They didn’t, as promised, free the housewife from the tyranny of the laundry, they just allowed her to do a lot more laundry.
For something positive...
The Choctaw nation did not look away when Ireland was suffering her greatest pain during the great famine, an gorta mor, back in the 1840s.
They did not say 'help our own', even though they suffered greatly too on their trail of tears
Respect 🙏 🫡
Perspective quite a bit askew. Maybe traced from a magazine ad. I wonder who “VH” was/is? Incidentally, I think my aul’ fella might have been the M&E engineer for this hotel.
The Burrell?
This is the only growth we’ll get from the relentless pursuit of growth.
Time to get our act together.
New #nuclear - too late for the climate crisis.
#climate
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Unoriginal I know but I’m becoming more convinced that exceptionally rich and successful businesses people like him become so because of some essential mental and moral defects. That “they’re not like the rest of us” doesn’t cover it. There’s just something wrong with them.
Sure, aren’t the Swiss great with the welcome? Look at the poor man, can’t even afford a comb or a razor, and they took him in. They must see something in him that lesser people like us can’t.
Its right wing doesn’t know what its left wing is doing.
Pre-Covid, WFH was what you did when you wanted to get a shitload done without interruption. Covid forced companies to make the technology available to all staff. Slackers will slack wherever but they’re the exceptions. Virtually everyone else grafts, wherever they are.
When my son was studying A-level Latin he listened to a podcast where they used what they believed was authentic Latin pronunciation. Sounded like a cross between Italian and the Archers.
Yes, I realise I misunderstood your comment. And may have still, but that paragraph seems to be him making his own failure a sort of Labour original sin that members can’t escape, whatever their motivations.
