On the ‘Path to Power’ podcast, former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar claimed that Israel is ‘not a country with European values’. If he were to say this about another country in the Middle East, he would be described as racist by the Irish Left. But because he has said it about Israel, it is permitted. Israel is at once ‘a European colonial project’ and also a country that ‘doesn’t have European values’ depending on the argument at hand and always to the detriment of Israel. Indeed, this contradiction is symptomatic of the fact that Jews are always morphed into that which is demonised. As David Baddie insightfully wrote, Jews are ‘Schrödinger’s whites: white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer.’ Most importantly, Leo is factually incorrect. Israel objectively shares many values with Europe: democracy, scientific progress, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ rights to name a few. I would also perhaps note that the Claims Conference recorded in 2026 that there are 97,600 Jewish Holocaust survivors living Israel in 2026, which amount to about 50% of all survivors worldwide. I would sincerely like to ask Leo whether he believes these survivors don’t hold European values? If that is indeed his belief, then he should be reminded that portraying Jews as fundamentally alien to European society was precisely one of the ideas used by their Nazi persecutors to justify their persecution.

Immigration to Welfare: Did you know the Govt passed a new Social Housing law this summer ? “The Housing and Residential Tenancies Act 2026” This Act sets the rules for asylum seekers’ access to social housing To qualify for social housing you must be “lawfully resident” and “habitually resident” in Ireland. “lawfully resident” includes: • Refugee status • Subsidiary protection • Permission to remain • Programme refugee status • Certain qualifying family permissions So once someone moves from being an asylum applicant, they have an immediate legal gateway to the social housing list. Social housing is NOT for citizens only. And To be clear: Until this summer, the rules governing migrants’ access to social housing were largely contained in a Departmental circular from 2012. The Govt has now written them directly into law. This was a chance to tighten up access to social benefits. Remember the Govt admit most are “economic migrants” But Instead they have doubled down. This directly affects the housing crisis. It puts new arrivals in direct competition with with disability campaigners & others for housing resources. Why are they doing this?

Lots of people discuss immigration & crime in Europe, so I compiled what I think is ALL the data on the topic, which is hard because many countries hide it. Do they commit more crime? Is it because of age? Sex? Education? Poverty? Culture? 1. Sexual offenses & violent crime:

What is the economic impact of immigrants in Europe? Do they pay more taxes or receive more welfare? There's very little data, but this is ALL I could find across the EU: 1. NETHERLANDS It has the best data While a Nordic immigrant contributes >€200k, a Somalian costs >€600k

The main justification fo immigration is work. So how much do immigrants work in Europe? Which ones do? don't? Why? How can Europeans improve this? Here's all the data I could find across countries 1. Across the OECD, unemployment is higher among immigrants than natives

My list of the five most evil people ever to have lived, from least to most evil: 5. Adolf Hitler 4. JK Rowlling 3. Margaret Thatcher 2. Sidney Sweeney 1. Ed Sheeran

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The more you think about this the worse it becomes. We currently need around 5,000 nursing positions filled. The HSE offered positions to newly graduated Irish nurses, then withdrew the offer, then said oops - we made a mistake, we didn't mean to offer you the jobs in the first place....🤨 How, with a shortage of thousands of nurses in the country, could the HSE not want to offer jobs to our recently graduated nurses? There really does seem to be only one logical explanation. As a party @independent_ire will work to actively retain our graduates, they are our future. @MichaelC_IND_TD

"The major change is how dangerous it has become" A Brazilian migrant who has been living in Ireland for 18 years complains about the massive number of foreigners coming into the country.

This is groundbreaking. The Arab League has voted to adopt a resolution against Hezbollah military activities in Lebanon. The 22 member nations voted to affirm support for Beirut's independence and sovereignty, and rejected the Tehran regime's foreign influence. Back in Dublin... how many more years will it take members of the Dáil to catch up to reality? Meanwhile in the Department of Foreign Affairs... best not to challenge the domestic audience. Let's just fire off another statement condemning those outrageous Israelis. jpost.com/middle-east/articl…

The resignations from the NCCA Leaving Cert Maths development group are incredibly important. The NCCA is not fit for purpose. They must be brought in front of the Oireachtas Committee. The issues within the NCCA run much deeper than problems with the LC Maths syllabus. Listen to the interview below with Prof Pauline Mellon and Humphrey Jones describing their concerns with the development process in both maths and science. Parents have been shouting from the rooftops about issues with the NCCA for a long time, and now, we see that those same concerns have been identified by those with internal involvement. To summarise, Prof Mellon identified the following issues: 🔸️ She felt NCCA personnel tightly controlled the process and outcomes. There was a lack of open discussion. 🔸️ Feedback from those with expertise on the development group was not taken on board. She, and others, raised concerns and produced several documents which were not seriously considered or circulated within the DG. 🔸️ She states, "The NCCA does not routinely, or formally, or systematically, in any way, involve subject experts" and further adds, "That does not appear to be accidental because similar concerns have been raised with other subjects." 🔸️ She has no faith in the consultation process because although the public consultation received a lot of feedback, the DG was not povided this feedback prior to producing the final specification and was informed that this was NCCA policy. Humphrey Jones (Chair of the Irish Science Teachers Association): 🔸️None of the consultation data was shared with the DG before the final specification was produced. 🔸️ Under FOI they accessed the raw data from the consultation submissions and found that in terms of tone and content, the actual feedback bears no resemblance whatsoever to the NCCA's 19-page Summary Report on the consultation. On this last point - I can personally attest to the fact that summary reports are not an accurate representation of feedback. I made a submission during the consultation on LC History. The summary report exclude my feedback entirely, claiming they received all positive feedback and agreement with the aspects of the specification that I expressly critiqued. It is now abundantly clear that NCCA is driven solely by their own agenda, that consultations are nothing more than box ticking exercises, and that they routinely ignore not just parent feedback but also expert feedback. The NCCA have gone rogue and are destroying education. They need to be disbanded and there needs to be a full investigation into all curricular reform that has taken place from 2015 onwards. @Education_Ire @1Hildegarde @Toibin1 @1PaulLawless @kenoflynnTD @MichaelFitzmauriceTD @RichardODonoghu @CNolanOffaly rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/4f…

- Be Ireland. - Be on the periphery with zero direct air connections to any asylum source country - Have it practically guaranteed that every asylum applicant arriving is arriving from another European country - Treat them as if they have just washed ashore from a wreck - Refuse to use a long established rule enabling the return of almost every asylum applicant arriving in Dublin - Whilst ignoring the rules we might use, opt us IN to an asylum seeker sharing arrangement from which we had already negotiated an opt-out - Ignore Denmark's actions who have largely solved the asylum rort - Tell voters there's nothing you can do - it's our international obligation

This essay by @Tyler_A_Harper is destined to become a classic. Anyone interested in the pathologies that have undermined the integrity of higher education in the past decade needs to read it. By telling his personal story, he places a spotlight on them. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

“NoFappers, Tradwives, and Fitfluencers: the new ideological entrepreneurs of the manosphere.” (^this was a real UCC event promoted by the National Women’s Council) I spent the weekend tracing how "Tradwives" became a Govt policy target. The paper trail is extraordinary....

Opinion Former Fine Gael minister Charlie Flanagan once said he’d have “more influence on Government policy if I was a middle-ranking official with an NGO”. This is exactly it. Ireland's Govt funded NGOs are mostly staffed with radical left wing activists. Our Govt has handed them the pen. Its open season on national policy. Normal people are too busy to understand how all this works. So when they open the paper and read "tradwives policy" they are completely lost at sea wondering what is happening. Ministers get the blame, but Ministers come and go every 4 years. The NGO class is the permanent fixture funded by the tax payer. Unelected and unaccountable. Staffed with activists straight from college. No real world experience & weak academic grounding. Time to de-fund the NGOS.

Long (but necessary) post on the Ceuta invasion. I’ve seen some pretty crazy takes on the biggest news story of the last 48 hours, from the Moroccans taking instructions from Israel (the stuff of Clown World) to it being instigated from the Oval Office, to distract from Trump’s embarrassing failures in the Iran war, but that reeks of TDS to me. So my thoughts on this; I believe that it stems from a visit earlier this week by Spanish PM Sanchez to Algiers. To those unfamiliar with the politics of the region, Morocco and Algeria are long-standing enemies which occasionally threatens to erupt into full-scale war. Morocco has spent several years trying hard to improve relations with Spain. The successful joint World Cup bid (with Portugal) is one manifestation of this, but there is also momentum for a tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar connecting both countries. There is even talk of Spain recognising Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara (the former Spanish colony). Spain has been slowly moving to Morocco’s side on this issue in recent years. Therefore Sanchez’s visit to Algeria earlier this week and the rumoured improvements in Spanish-Algerian relations was perceived as a slap in the face to Morocco and the visit received widespread and hostile coverage there. Morocco therefore decided to fire a shot across the Spanish bows. The Spanish exclaves (and associated uninhabited islands) on the Southern Mediterranean have always been a bone of contention to Morocco. The Moroccans want this territory, as it effectively gives them equal control with the Spanish over traffic entering and leaving the Mediterranean. This would give them a similar position to Iran in the Straits of Hormuz. There’s no question for me, but that Morocco (up to its highest level) orchestrated the invasion of Ceuta, in order to embarrass Sanchez and Spain and there’s no doubt that they have done that. The invasion has demonstrated how little solidarity Spain enjoys within the EU, with 22 countries signing up to a public rebuke in the last 24 hours and EU Commission head Von der Leyen also putting the boot in. Why does Spain enjoy such little support? There are a few reasons. Spain has long been one of Europe’s soft underbellies on illegal migration to Europe. Hundreds of thousands have come across from Africa to the Spanish mainland and the Canary Islands and the Spanish government has done a very poor job on repatriation. Things have become so bad that a few months ago Prime Minister Sanchez announced an amnesty for what he thought was half a million illegal migrants. It turned out that the final number was just short of a million. This sent shockwaves of horror through the rest of Europe, where the danger from uncontrolled migration is now one of the biggest political issues. With anti-migration parties making gains from Portugal to Sweden and with French elections coming within the next year, what Sanchez did was to light the flames under the European political establishment. Spain (or at least Sanchez) now has very few friends within the EU. To compound the problem, Spain has been hugely underspending on defence, failing to reach its NATO commitments for years and that under-spend was manifested in Ceuta in the last 48 hours. This reluctance to meet its defence commitments has also riled up Trump and further isolated the Spanish. With Morocco’s mission of embarrassing Sanchez achieved, there is no need for the invasion to be maintained. Doing so would only risk more heavy-handed tactics from Madrid and the possible intervention of NATO. Sanchez has been given a bloody nose, shown to be almost friendless and with a corruption scandal adding to his woes, he is becoming an increasingly pathetic figure, living on borrowed time.

"Immigration" is an umbrella term. There is immigration to work, and immigration to welfare. Too often, those in the establishment/NGO bubble hide behind genuinely good people immigrating to work in hospitals etc. By doing this they turn a deliberate blind eye to the clear abuse of the asylum system. Which is costing us billions but enriching politically connected families & organised crime gangs. While simultaneously destroying tourism, dividing communities and creating intense competition for services in mostly deprived areas. There are clear links to the IPAS system and crime along with major impact on garda resources which both our elected Govt & main opposition choose to ignore. The Govt do admit that up to 80% of people in the asylum system are economic migrants but yet do nothing about it. ~90% of people on here complaining about immigration are complaining about the abuse of asylum system. Stop hiding behind nurses and carers.

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Archival footage of Dublin in 1915, capturing the city's streets, trams, horse drawn carriages and people going about their daily lives before the Easter Rising. Footage: J. Gordon Lewis for British Pathe

I figured this would eventually happen, but not as quickly as it seems to be happening and, for this, Paul Krugman should get credit. For years mainstream economists were unable to understand how trade and globalization work because they were locked into trade models that implicitly assumed that trade was balanced (except, occasionally, over short time periods) and that capital flowed towards its most productive use. That is why their understanding of trade had no relevance to the actual world of trade that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. But this couldn't last. As the problem of unbalanced trade became more obvious , and as policymakers were increasingly forced to ignore the advice of their economists and respond to real problems, mainstream economists would eventually begin to recognize how, in an unevenly globalized world, countries that aggressively intervene in their domestic economies and externalize the costs through trade surpluses are also effectively intervening in the domestic economies of countries that supposedly remain committed to "free trade". Most economists still don't understand trade. But with Krugman now acknowledging that tariffs and other forms of trade intervention can be expansionary under some conditions and contractionary under others (as Ragnar Nurkse explained as long ago as in his 1944 book), I suspect that younger economists will develop a completely different understanding of trade, and one that is perhaps a little more realistic.