Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸
@michaeltoomey.bsky.social
Lecturer in International Relations at Glasgow University. Rugby/ex-MMA/Beer Enthusiast. BJJ 🟪⬛🟪. ADD. Opinions own, rt =/= endorsement.
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European Union Enlargement and Democratisation
European Union Enlargement and Democratisation
edinburghuniversitypress.com
My book is available for pre-order! Very happy to get this out- it took me long enough 🤣
Thanks to everyone at @edinburghup.bsky.social, I can't recommend publishing with them highly enough!
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-europea...
Thanks to everyone at @edinburghup.bsky.social, I can't recommend publishing with them highly enough!
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-europea...
This is literally being done just so Muskrat can claim to be the world’s first trillionaire. No financial or business sense, just pure ego. Disgusting.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Tesla deal to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire
World’s richest person could receive the largest corporate payout in history if he meets required goals
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is literally being done just so Muskrat can claim to be the world’s first trillionaire. No financial or business sense, just pure ego. Disgusting.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Things one loves reading about
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Same thing goes for the nameless US elites, shit or get off the pot you absolute cowards. 7 million people are marching in the street and risking being murdered by ICE in the streets to prevent deportations. You are worried about your stock portfolio. Grow a pair.
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Same thing goes for the nameless US elites, shit or get off the pot you absolute cowards. 7 million people are marching in the street and risking being murdered by ICE in the streets to prevent deportations. You are worried about your stock portfolio. Grow a pair.
Shit or get off the pot time, Tories. Either disavow her plan for ethnic cleansing publicly and vote to kick her out of the party, or resign your position. You gutless cowards.
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people
Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Shit or get off the pot time, Tories. Either disavow her plan for ethnic cleansing publicly and vote to kick her out of the party, or resign your position. You gutless cowards.
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I remain convinced that the Conservative Party is more akin to an ant infected with cordyceps than a functioning political party. Its legs are moving and it’s capable of travelling from point a to point b, but its mind has been eaten by Farage and it’s a slowly dying husk.
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I remain convinced that the Conservative Party is more akin to an ant infected with cordyceps than a functioning political party. Its legs are moving and it’s capable of travelling from point a to point b, but its mind has been eaten by Farage and it’s a slowly dying husk.
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there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours
A good piece summarising Starmer’s continued hypocrisy and absurdity regarding the genocide in Gaza
Why would Starmer overturn a decision to avert real danger of violence from foreign fans directed at UK citizens?
Why's the right of Israeli fans to attend a football match placed above safety of the UK public?
Why are the sensitivities of a group of hooligans trumping good race relations in UK?
Why's the right of Israeli fans to attend a football match placed above safety of the UK public?
Why are the sensitivities of a group of hooligans trumping good race relations in UK?
A tale of two chants: Why Starmer now casts even the British police as antisemitic
Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!'
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A good piece summarising Starmer’s continued hypocrisy and absurdity regarding the genocide in Gaza
Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK
Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
GET IN MY SON
October 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
GET IN MY SON
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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities.
Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities.
Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
My one question about this ludicrous nonsense is, who is the supposed shooter, and what *ACTUALLY* happened to him. Very convenient that he "took his own life".
Not "Fuck ICE" or "Death to ICE", you know something that makes sense, but "Anti ICE" lol. The FBI is really bad at this, but maybe it doesn't even matter anymore.
September 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My one question about this ludicrous nonsense is, who is the supposed shooter, and what *ACTUALLY* happened to him. Very convenient that he "took his own life".
Yes. This. 1000x this. The best thing the UK (and Ireland) could do to improve its politics would be to start tuning out this American culture war nonsense which has absolutely no relevance to or bearing on our society whatsoever.
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Yes. This. 1000x this. The best thing the UK (and Ireland) could do to improve its politics would be to start tuning out this American culture war nonsense which has absolutely no relevance to or bearing on our society whatsoever.
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congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
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what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
When he’s right he’s right, although as usual, he’s only saying this to pressure countries to buy American oil instead of
Trump urges Nato countries to stop buying Russian oil to end Ukraine war
Trump urges Nato countries to stop buying Russian oil to end Ukraine war
US president says purchase of Russian oil by some Nato members is ‘shocking’
www.irishtimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
When he’s right he’s right, although as usual, he’s only saying this to pressure countries to buy American oil instead of
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This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear.
This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like
This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear.
This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like
This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like
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Nothing but silence was the response when this happened. Still is.
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Nothing but silence was the response when this happened. Still is.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!