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Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
Why the government is nothing like a household
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.
youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...
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The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it?
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly.
If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.
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We really, REALLY need to support our local (and rural) artists - my home would be a lot less pleasant without Ciara's art on the walls, and whatever I paid her for it gets spent locally.
Her work is both beautiful and reasonably-priced, and if you've deeper pockets, she takes commissions too.
Her work is both beautiful and reasonably-priced, and if you've deeper pockets, she takes commissions too.
Thanks so much Philip! Will be a tougher one this year I expect, so appreciate it hugely.
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We really, REALLY need to support our local (and rural) artists - my home would be a lot less pleasant without Ciara's art on the walls, and whatever I paid her for it gets spent locally.
Her work is both beautiful and reasonably-priced, and if you've deeper pockets, she takes commissions too.
Her work is both beautiful and reasonably-priced, and if you've deeper pockets, she takes commissions too.
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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But, you know, the problem is "objectors" and judicial review
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
But, you know, the problem is "objectors" and judicial review
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"Neither ABP nor the bats can be blamed for the fact that the developer hasn’t delivered on the planning permission in Killarney, just as they can’t be blamed for the estimated 90,000 other homes nationally (including c.45,000 in Dublin) which reportedly had unused planning permissions in 2025." 💯
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Neither ABP nor the bats can be blamed for the fact that the developer hasn’t delivered on the planning permission in Killarney, just as they can’t be blamed for the estimated 90,000 other homes nationally (including c.45,000 in Dublin) which reportedly had unused planning permissions in 2025." 💯
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Ireland's "gold plated" implementation of EU law on show in Luxembourg this week cc @progressireland.bsky.social
BREAKING: EU's top court has ruled that Ireland has widespread non-compliance with EU's main water law e.g. a lack of regulation on physical damage to our waters, & poor monitoring & control of water abstractions.
We face daily fines & further decline if not fixed.
swanireland.ie/2025/11/land...
We face daily fines & further decline if not fixed.
swanireland.ie/2025/11/land...
Landmark EU water ruling shows systemic and abject failure of Irish government to protect water - Sustainable Water Network
The Sustainable Water Network (SWAN), a network of 25 environmental organisations, has welcomed yesterday’s European Court of Justice ruling [1] that Ireland is in breach of its obligations under the ...
swanireland.ie
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Ireland's "gold plated" implementation of EU law on show in Luxembourg this week cc @progressireland.bsky.social
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If 24 people are dead due to airstrikes, I think we're safe to assume that the ceasefire is not being "tested", but is "over" - if it ever started in the first place.
Call things by their proper names.
Call things by their proper names.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If 24 people are dead due to airstrikes, I think we're safe to assume that the ceasefire is not being "tested", but is "over" - if it ever started in the first place.
Call things by their proper names.
Call things by their proper names.
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I have done a very great many exams in my life and have a decent alphabet soup after my name as a result. I am something of an expert on being tested. The ceasefire has failed. It has not passed the test. Israel remains a genocidal and barbarous state.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I have done a very great many exams in my life and have a decent alphabet soup after my name as a result. I am something of an expert on being tested. The ceasefire has failed. It has not passed the test. Israel remains a genocidal and barbarous state.
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Hello! I'm Victoria & I write Warhammer stories 💀
If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry
Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry
Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
DEATHWORLDER: Interview with author VICTORIA HAYWARD | Warhammer Book Club
YouTube video by Arbitor Ian
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Hello! I'm Victoria & I write Warhammer stories 💀
If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry
Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry
Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
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And a Netflix comedy special for everyone who tells a good dad joke
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
And a Netflix comedy special for everyone who tells a good dad joke
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New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A whole host of Garda Stations on the Moon you say?
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A whole host of Garda Stations on the Moon you say?
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This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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Do you remember when Miriam Margolyes said she wanted Boris Johnson to die live on TV.
There was outrage.
Now it turns out Johnson wanted her and ALL the old people to die.
I think she needs an apology.
There was outrage.
Now it turns out Johnson wanted her and ALL the old people to die.
I think she needs an apology.
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Do you remember when Miriam Margolyes said she wanted Boris Johnson to die live on TV.
There was outrage.
Now it turns out Johnson wanted her and ALL the old people to die.
I think she needs an apology.
There was outrage.
Now it turns out Johnson wanted her and ALL the old people to die.
I think she needs an apology.
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Zelenskyy has huge pressure on him, and unbelievable responsibilities and decisions to make... but what he needs more than anything during this time, is the support of Europe and the UK. Steadfast and reliable. He needs to know that if he chooses the hard path, we have his back.
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Zelenskyy has huge pressure on him, and unbelievable responsibilities and decisions to make... but what he needs more than anything during this time, is the support of Europe and the UK. Steadfast and reliable. He needs to know that if he chooses the hard path, we have his back.
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I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Of course, the government aren't fools, this is not a case of naivety but one of alignment of interests - wealthy investors benefit from gutting oversight and protections, and for the government it's a convenient scapegoat for their own decades long failings
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Of course, the government aren't fools, this is not a case of naivety but one of alignment of interests - wealthy investors benefit from gutting oversight and protections, and for the government it's a convenient scapegoat for their own decades long failings
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Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Nitrates derogation
Back in the early nineties all across the EU a rule was introduced to protect rivers and streams from agricultural run off. At the last count 7,000 out of 137,000 farms in Ireland had received a derog...
www.rte.ie
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Over the 19 years Ireland has had a derogation from the nitrates directive we have backed ourselves in to a corner. Which now leaves us having productive and economically viable farms or cleaner rivers and lakes, but not both.
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Cártaí Nollag / Christmas Cards - An Cailleach (Goddess Of Winter) — Ciaraíoch Art
Christmas cards featuring the Cailleach, the mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter. She is associated with storms, the landscape, and horned beasts like deer, ...
www.ciaraioch.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
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A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
share.google
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’.
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit?
share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...
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This needs to be taken more seriously!
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This needs to be taken more seriously!
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A little piece about mental health #suicideawareness #mentalhealth #poem @samaritans.bsky.social
GIG FOR SAMARITANS 11am COLCHESTER SUNDAY
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GIG FOR SAMARITANS 11am COLCHESTER SUNDAY
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November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A little piece about mental health #suicideawareness #mentalhealth #poem @samaritans.bsky.social
GIG FOR SAMARITANS 11am COLCHESTER SUNDAY
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
GIG FOR SAMARITANS 11am COLCHESTER SUNDAY
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
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🇵🇸 Amazing! Did you know that our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel has reached 2, 376 signatories! We are very proud of this serious solidarity with the Palestinian people and total rejection of Israeli apartheid. Artists sign ➡️
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🇵🇸 Amazing! Did you know that our Irish Artists' Pledge to Boycott Israel has reached 2, 376 signatories! We are very proud of this serious solidarity with the Palestinian people and total rejection of Israeli apartheid. Artists sign ➡️
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine
www.ipsc.ie/cultural-boy...
#BDS is UNSTOPPABLE! #FreePalestine