Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA

Simon Harris – who recently criticised jobseekers and NGOs – and his parents won’t answer questions about whether the Harrises were eligible for a state-backed housing scheme that saw their €600,000 home sold and leased back to them after they’d accumulated mortgage arrears. ontheditch.com/simon-harris-…

No to war, no to militarism! Join the protest to confront the warmongers this Thursday. Meet at Spire at 5pm to march to where the EU leaders will be wined and dined. We have to fight for a future where the needs of working class people come before profits of billionaires.

The property industry and its army of lobbyists do a great job of bending the state to their will. "You’ve probably heard terms like public affairs, government relations, and stakeholder engagement. "This kind of ‘professional’ language can make political influence sound neutral and hide what it really is. "A lot of the time, it’s lobbying. And we all need to better understand how it happens."

A small selection of PROVEN Israeli hybrid attacks in EU: - 'black cube' Slovenian election interference - EU commission heads Pegasus spyware - Brussels Justus Lipsius Building Bugging - Ireland passport forgeries for assassinations All Proven yet a "preferred partner" 😑

It’s your Misinformation Minister -What ‘Peacekeeping’ are you referring to? Any future foreign missions will be Peace Enforcement & if without UN Mandate -that would end our military neutrality as we would be participating in a military alliance, a ‘coalition of the willing’ etc

The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 36: Freedom Ain’t Free, with Gavan Titley ‘Late neoliberal governance is happy with people chatting. You can talk away, right? I think Jodie Dean called this democracy that speaks without listening: speak, but we're not going to do anything with it. I think there's a lot to be done on the left to think about making speech into something that not just has resonance and meaning but has collective power as well as occupying and thinking about civil liberties which are very clearly under threat at the moment. ‘But it's not just the negative freedom – the freedom from something – but the freedom to do something, a set of debates and a political terrain that we could occupy right now a lot more, particularly when it comes to things like social media platforms where the debate has been about my right not to be banned or not to be thrown off them. ‘OK you can have an account but whether you're being amplified or deamplified, where you have a right to speak but you've no right to reception – these are massive private corporations with black box algorithmic operations that organise a public for us.’

‘This was brought to public attention by The Ditch. The bonds, known as Israel Bonds and issued by the Development Corporation for Israel, were explicitly marketed and sold from October 2023 as war bonds accompanied by the slogan "Israel is at war  – we stand with Israel”’ bdsmovement.net/news/No-Sale…