Eoin Keating
@eoinkeating.bsky.social
Been in London so long I’m probably a Dublindoner. Almost an architect - Groucho Marx rule and all that. Late career move into LA planning. Deffo fat lad at the back.
I wish Radio 5 would stick to sport and give the BBC’s spineless obsession with immigration the weekend off. Its presenters appear lightweight and unprepared, giving the likes of Danny Shaw, leader of Labour’s Home Office descent in the moral void, an uncritical ride. Only “optics”, no humanity.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I wish Radio 5 would stick to sport and give the BBC’s spineless obsession with immigration the weekend off. Its presenters appear lightweight and unprepared, giving the likes of Danny Shaw, leader of Labour’s Home Office descent in the moral void, an uncritical ride. Only “optics”, no humanity.
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A really fun fact.
If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social
If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wooden wall
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A really fun fact.
If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social
If you go to the cartoonmuseum.org in Central London to see incredible collections & shows of the best cartoon artwork
& you pay for admission once, that ticket acts as an annual membership so you can go back as many times as you like in 1 year.
@cartoonmuseum.bsky.social
The Race to Build 1.5m Homes on BBC is doing a fair job of making a complex story comprehensible. But it’s getting evasion to the 2 big questions: can it be done? Will it make housing cheaper? The answer to both is No. And even if the answer to the first were Yes, the second will still be No.
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Race to Build 1.5m Homes on BBC is doing a fair job of making a complex story comprehensible. But it’s getting evasion to the 2 big questions: can it be done? Will it make housing cheaper? The answer to both is No. And even if the answer to the first were Yes, the second will still be No.
Oh, FFS! Why does the BBC continue to give airtime to Reform?!
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Oh, FFS! Why does the BBC continue to give airtime to Reform?!
BBC QT: Hilary Benn channeling Sgt Wilson.
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
BBC QT: Hilary Benn channeling Sgt Wilson.
BBC QT: Why are concerned citizens branded far right about immigration? Immigration being a primary far right obsession might be a clue. It’s such a closely overlapping Venn diagram it approaches a circle. And “concerned citizens” has long been a disingenuous cover for vigilantes.
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
BBC QT: Why are concerned citizens branded far right about immigration? Immigration being a primary far right obsession might be a clue. It’s such a closely overlapping Venn diagram it approaches a circle. And “concerned citizens” has long been a disingenuous cover for vigilantes.
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It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:
Guns at Annunciation
I was baptized at the church where kids were murdered. It's a canary in the coal mine for a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns.
www.forkingpaths.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's a fool's errand to try to figure out why each individual shooter did what they did; it centers one erratic, unwell individual (which is impossible to solve) rather than the structural problems (which are possible to solve). And the structural problem is this: guns. I explain more here:
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Expected this Big Read on UK housing to just say ‘build more houses’. It’s much more interesting than that. on.ft.com/4nauRYz
Making British homes affordable again
Politicians have long blamed a housing shortage for soaring prices, but it is tax reform that can make the market less dysfunctional
on.ft.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Expected this Big Read on UK housing to just say ‘build more houses’. It’s much more interesting than that. on.ft.com/4nauRYz
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Can't say I particularly trust this "democratic lock" over sentencing guidelines, given how much Governments of the day obsess over the risk of negative Daily Mail front pages, rather than what is legally sound/just (but can be spun badly as 'soft on crime')
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Justice Secretary introduces democratic lock over Sentencing Council
The Sentencing Council will be unable to issue new guidelines without the approval of the Justice Secretary.
www.gov.uk
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Can't say I particularly trust this "democratic lock" over sentencing guidelines, given how much Governments of the day obsess over the risk of negative Daily Mail front pages, rather than what is legally sound/just (but can be spun badly as 'soft on crime')
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Elkins’s argument is tendentious, and against the sprit of the Belfast Agreement, but a sufficiently unimaginative UK Supreme Court, would probably be unable to win a battle with a sufficiently imaginative UK Govt determined to leave the ECHR 🧵
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Elkins’s argument is tendentious, and against the sprit of the Belfast Agreement, but a sufficiently unimaginative UK Supreme Court, would probably be unable to win a battle with a sufficiently imaginative UK Govt determined to leave the ECHR 🧵
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NEW
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
27th August 2025 Only good fortune has prevented previous governments from misusing our constitutional arrangements more than they did * The constitution of the United Kingdom provides for two R…
davidallengreen.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
NEW
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/yes-...
Putin 1 - Cretin 0
August 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Putin 1 - Cretin 0
Oops. Just been blocked by someone I followed so I could be exposed to those of a different political persuasion, for being critical of the quality of a publication by his think tank. Recycling a teacher’s criticism of my own writing in a far off time was evidently unwise, however appropriate.
August 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Oops. Just been blocked by someone I followed so I could be exposed to those of a different political persuasion, for being critical of the quality of a publication by his think tank. Recycling a teacher’s criticism of my own writing in a far off time was evidently unwise, however appropriate.
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All these trees will be destroyed for 300 car spaces for @sdublincoco €35M overscaled coffee shop at the Hellfire.
Over 31,500 have said no & are calling for a review of this monstrosity.
change.org/p/save-the-hel…#naturer#biodiversityt#wildlifefe
Over 31,500 have said no & are calling for a review of this monstrosity.
change.org/p/save-the-hel…#naturer#biodiversityt#wildlifefe
August 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
All these trees will be destroyed for 300 car spaces for @sdublincoco €35M overscaled coffee shop at the Hellfire.
Over 31,500 have said no & are calling for a review of this monstrosity.
change.org/p/save-the-hel…#naturer#biodiversityt#wildlifefe
Over 31,500 have said no & are calling for a review of this monstrosity.
change.org/p/save-the-hel…#naturer#biodiversityt#wildlifefe
Can’t shake it. Every time I hear David Lammy on the radio.
July 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Can’t shake it. Every time I hear David Lammy on the radio.
“Human”. Should have been a radio programme, it makes so little use of the visual apart from the presenter gallivanting through jungles and deserts. And it’s so slow….
July 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Human”. Should have been a radio programme, it makes so little use of the visual apart from the presenter gallivanting through jungles and deserts. And it’s so slow….
TV detective programmes. Why is it that despite the digital revolution in real life, and the flash offices and computers, every move is based on passing on a cardboard file, printed photographs or someone drawing circles on maps with a big, fat marker pen?
July 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
TV detective programmes. Why is it that despite the digital revolution in real life, and the flash offices and computers, every move is based on passing on a cardboard file, printed photographs or someone drawing circles on maps with a big, fat marker pen?
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"Sinn Féin is a tricky party to explain to people outside of Ireland. They are now just a centre left party with a bit of cultural baggage. Unattended suspicious baggage. With an unsettling ticking noise."
glorious guest post by @grainnemaguire.bsky.social today
glorious guest post by @grainnemaguire.bsky.social today
Gráinne Maguire On Losing in Front of Your Home Crowd
“I don’t know whether headlining a Sinn Féin gala would be good for my brand.”
open.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Sinn Féin is a tricky party to explain to people outside of Ireland. They are now just a centre left party with a bit of cultural baggage. Unattended suspicious baggage. With an unsettling ticking noise."
glorious guest post by @grainnemaguire.bsky.social today
glorious guest post by @grainnemaguire.bsky.social today
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If you can't flat out tell your readers that something is unconstitutional, then you shouldn't be in the business of news. Abandoning that duty to experts undercuts the whole purpose of journalism.
July 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you can't flat out tell your readers that something is unconstitutional, then you shouldn't be in the business of news. Abandoning that duty to experts undercuts the whole purpose of journalism.
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Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
Thousands are in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
Lord Woodley is right that it’s time IPP prisoners were released, writes Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform – but his intervention won’t change the government’s mind
www.independent.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...