Easy choice

How sometimes having a little bit of knowledge can make you more dumb

Embarrassing for supposed political journalists at the large national newspapers that this story is being broken by a student newspaper. Catastrophic failure of Irish journalism to hold this government properly to account. Kudos to Trinity News though, great work

Respect. This is perfectly clear and direct.

New pre-print w/ Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Rafael Pintro Schmitt & Peter Fallesen: "The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High-Income Countries" We harmonize US, UK, DK, DE & AU panel data to study strength of (& mechanisms behind) intergen. poverty. osf.io/tb3qz/

Irish republican socialist Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey on the saddening hypocrisy and racism of Irish-Americans that she witnessed upon visiting Boston in 1979.

Want to hang out with Arnold and have an existential crisis together

Ah fuck

What we've been doing for the last 20 yrs hasn't worked - 1 in 4 children are still growing up in poverty. Now is the time for real & meaningful action on poverty in NI. We need our Assembly & Executive to act on an #NIAntiPovertyStrategy as a day one priority when they return.

This statement by Sinéad O'Connor about the consequences of tearing the picture of the Pope:

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

"And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter..." Seamus Heaney.

“If you can basically tell everybody at the bottom of the ladder it’s not the bankers, it’s not the professional classes, it’s not the people trying to kick you out of your home, it’s the other guy. The bus driver. The guy on labour. The working classes compete for resources”

There are many great MacGowan songs and performances. But this is something else. The son of immigrants performing an Irish classic about the pain and loss of migration over generations. You can see the love Christy has for him. When he takes the sunglasses off, it's serious...

Fair play to Lad Bible for doing this

That mosque was 16 times older than the state of Israel itself. This is a crime against humanity.

The Battle of Algiers (1966).

They killed Patrice Lumumba to ensure that one of the world’s wealthiest nations would be the site of its greatest poverty.