Éamann Mac Donnchada
@almagroschool.bsky.social
Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
Translations, mainly academic https://cregannatranslation.com/
Politics: Crude Marxist
There will be no foreign forces of any meaningful sort deployed in Gaza. Maybe a company of Indonesian dental technicians, nothing more. Claims like this rest on the notion that Israel is a colonial outpost that relies on external support for its survival
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US military planning for divided Gaza with ‘green zone’ secured by international and Israeli troops
Exclusive: Almost all Palestinians have been displaced to ‘red zone’ where no reconstruction is planned
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
There will be no foreign forces of any meaningful sort deployed in Gaza. Maybe a company of Indonesian dental technicians, nothing more. Claims like this rest on the notion that Israel is a colonial outpost that relies on external support for its survival
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
yes, the GFA didn't establish the right of NI ppl to have Irish nationality if they wanted, it was always there.
I’ve always had an Irish passport - only because of a school trip to Paris in secondary school where the school arranged for all pupils to have them. Post Brexit, I’m so glad. My son (born in London) has both a British and a Irish one, the latter makes international travel so much easier.
This report is largely about Irish passport applications from people living in GB, but the continuing high number of new passport applications from NI is remarkable. There have been really profound identity shifts enabling huge numbers to formally assert being Irish:
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
yes, the GFA didn't establish the right of NI ppl to have Irish nationality if they wanted, it was always there.
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Maybe there was something to be said for a period of silence from the UK Chancellor before a budget.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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If you are a govt with a huge majority in a system with scant checks on parliamentary power you can do *what you want*. If the public don't like it they can voté against you at the next election, so what? And all this pledge talk is absurd, as if it were a solemn religious vow
Too much analysis was still treating breaking the tax pledge as “just another unpopular decision” rather than recognising consequence of breaking a promise which defined an election for the public. If is correct the govt won’t now break it they may have avoided a deeply scarring loss of public trust
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
If you are a govt with a huge majority in a system with scant checks on parliamentary power you can do *what you want*. If the public don't like it they can voté against you at the next election, so what? And all this pledge talk is absurd, as if it were a solemn religious vow
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I can't think of a government with a big majority in any democratic country so afflicted by fainting fits
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Starmer and Reeves drop proposal to increase income tax rates in the Budget
U-turn on measures to raise revenue to fill fiscal hole sparks sell-off in gilt market
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November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What the fuck is wrong with these people? I can't think of a government with a big majority in any democratic country so afflicted by fainting fits
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The fact that a guy called Nick Fuentes can be a prominent white supremacist in the US suggests that a lot of US white supremacists are a few bricks short of a load
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The fact that a guy called Nick Fuentes can be a prominent white supremacist in the US suggests that a lot of US white supremacists are a few bricks short of a load
No Brit thinkpiece about Spain can be published without a paragraph of thoughts from Mrs Nick Clegg. It's in the unwritten constitution they have. The Economist does its duty. Aforamiento btw is just parliamentary immunity, common in democratic states
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No Brit thinkpiece about Spain can be published without a paragraph of thoughts from Mrs Nick Clegg. It's in the unwritten constitution they have. The Economist does its duty. Aforamiento btw is just parliamentary immunity, common in democratic states
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I wrote about boyfriend embarrassment and the not-actually-feminist 'just date women' refrain. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The false feminism of new political lesbianism
In its current incarnation, it’s about viewing one’s sexual orientation as a conscious decision, an anti-patriarchal walking of the walk
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I wrote about boyfriend embarrassment and the not-actually-feminist 'just date women' refrain. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Peronismo is a second layer of national and personal identity. It accommodates all political ideologies and none. It's not a political party
I keep trying to find an English-dubbed video of the Kirchner '05 speech where Bush looks completely horrified & furious, but it's surprisingly difficult! The wonder of the internet... As TW points out, Argentina is odd - its neoliberal and pink tide turns were conducted by the same Peronist party.
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Peronismo is a second layer of national and personal identity. It accommodates all political ideologies and none. It's not a political party
A very kumbaya account of the transition to democracy in Spain. We live with consequences of the failure to purge the core elements of the regime to this day
How democrats can fight back on.ft.com/3WTh2D2 | opinion
How democrats can fight back
Fifty years after Franco’s death, autocracy is going strong
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November 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A very kumbaya account of the transition to democracy in Spain. We live with consequences of the failure to purge the core elements of the regime to this day
The notionally expert on the EU commenting class in the UK still struggles with the fact that the EU has no obligation to be fair to 3rd countries, and dgaf what 3rd country ppl think its priorities should be
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The notionally expert on the EU commenting class in the UK still struggles with the fact that the EU has no obligation to be fair to 3rd countries, and dgaf what 3rd country ppl think its priorities should be
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This would not have happened under a climate change denying PP/Vox government. If they win the next election further progress will be stalled. Spain can be a clean energy super power, with all the huge opportunities that presents, but not if the right takes control.
Spain’s rapid deployment of wind and solar energy has slashed the influence of expensive gas and coal plants on electricity prices by 75% since 2019..... As a result, the country is now one of the cheapest electricity markets in Europe.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...
In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets
Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.
theprogressplaybook.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This would not have happened under a climate change denying PP/Vox government. If they win the next election further progress will be stalled. Spain can be a clean energy super power, with all the huge opportunities that presents, but not if the right takes control.
More likely MMacS comes on TV to announce that Starter has retired to a care home for the bewildered and he's in charge now
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Keir Starmer should sack person behind ‘self-defeating’ leadership briefings, says Ed Miliband
Energy secretary rules himself out as potential successor to prime minister
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
More likely MMacS comes on TV to announce that Starter has retired to a care home for the bewildered and he's in charge now
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Fabuloso apellido el del Tte Coronel
La UCO contra la FGE: un teniente coronel apunta directamente al fiscal general. Antonio Balas muestra al Supremo el camino por el que tiene que ir si quiere condenar a García Ortiz. Es, ciertamente, una senda algo accidentada. www.eldiario.es/politica/uco...
La UCO contra la FGE: un teniente coronel apunta directamente al fiscal general
El teniente coronel Balas, de la UCO, sostiene en el juicio que la filtración sólo pudo proceder de García Ortiz, porque tenía "un dominio a todos los niveles" de la toma de decisiones. El fiscal gene...
www.eldiario.es
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Fabuloso apellido el del Tte Coronel
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Escuchando a Vox y al PP, diciendo que este gobierno no va a ningún sitio, me recuerda lo fácil que es banalizar la acción política. Es que cada mes que evitamos que esta gente gobierne es un mes ganado; pero, además, no es mero filibusterismo: se amplían derechos para la clase trabajadora del país.
Hoy se vota la Ley de Atención a la Clientela. Se suma a reformas de legislatura que expanden libertades reales: el Art. 49 de personas con discapacidad, permisos parentales dignos, dependencia financiada y la Ley ELA. Son derechos materiales, no abstractos. Esa es la política que sirve a la gente.
El Congreso aprueba este jueves la ley de Bustinduy contra las llamadas 'spam': "También me llaman a mí al móvil del ministerio"
El ministro de Derechos Sociales, Consumo y Agenda 2030 ha pasado por los micrófonos de 'Hora 25' con Aimar Bretos | Cadena SER
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November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Escuchando a Vox y al PP, diciendo que este gobierno no va a ningún sitio, me recuerda lo fácil que es banalizar la acción política. Es que cada mes que evitamos que esta gente gobierne es un mes ganado; pero, además, no es mero filibusterismo: se amplían derechos para la clase trabajadora del país.
Another gift from Trump to Milei. None of this makes sense unless some guys in the control room are making a fuck ton of money
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US drew $900mn from IMF account as Argentina debt payment loomed
Buenos Aires’s reserves rose by the same margin as Washington seeks to bolster Javier Milei’s government
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November 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Another gift from Trump to Milei. None of this makes sense unless some guys in the control room are making a fuck ton of money
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My bro in law the lawyer likewise
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My bro in law the lawyer likewise
The communion one is great🤣
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The communion one is great🤣
Yep. Connor Mc Gregor 🤮
Am currently supply teaching in a private school. When the boys hear that I'm Irish what Irish celebrity do they immediately name?
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Yep. Connor Mc Gregor 🤮
Am currently supply teaching in a private school. When the boys hear that I'm Irish what Irish celebrity do they immediately name?
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Am currently supply teaching in a private school. When the boys hear that I'm Irish what Irish celebrity do they immediately name?
Since his comeback after the Federal Committee of the PSOE fired him in 2016 our guy made he sure no one would cross him again
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Since his comeback after the Federal Committee of the PSOE fired him in 2016 our guy made he sure no one would cross him again
Accelerationist loon, Living Marxism cult leader Frank fucking Furedi? Or some harmless namesake?
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Accelerationist loon, Living Marxism cult leader Frank fucking Furedi? Or some harmless namesake?
The new leader of America's Catholic bishops seems to be an ... ermmm .. interesting fellow
www.ncronline.org/news/bishops...
www.ncronline.org/news/bishops...
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The new leader of America's Catholic bishops seems to be an ... ermmm .. interesting fellow
www.ncronline.org/news/bishops...
www.ncronline.org/news/bishops...
Spain's Chielf Public Prosecutor on trial before the Supreme Court for supposedly leaking a "secret" about Díaz Ayuso's tax dodging boyfriend that half the journalists in Madrid knew already. PS: The Fiscal General del Estado is Chief Public Prosecutor, not Attorney General, for fuck´s sake
Una docena de periodistas han pasado por el tribunal y ninguno ha señalado directamente a Álvaro García Ortiz
Los periodistas ponen en aprietos a las acusaciones: "El fiscal general no me filtró el correo"
Una docena de periodistas han pasado por el tribunal y ninguno ha señalado directamente a Álvaro García Ortiz.
www.publico.es
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Spain's Chielf Public Prosecutor on trial before the Supreme Court for supposedly leaking a "secret" about Díaz Ayuso's tax dodging boyfriend that half the journalists in Madrid knew already. PS: The Fiscal General del Estado is Chief Public Prosecutor, not Attorney General, for fuck´s sake
Seven years of this moral narcissism while depending on the Brits for defence is going to painful www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seven years of this moral narcissism while depending on the Brits for defence is going to painful www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...