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Europe's Centre-Left Chose Caution Over Conviction and Now Faces Collapse www.socialeurope.eu/europes-cent...
Asset stripping at former profitable state telco Eir continues. Dividends were twice profits at €195m in 2025. This continues its history of asset stripping which I’ve highlighted in books & articles since FF privatised it in 1999. Most small investors didn’t do well when they bought shares.
So nice speaking with Catherina Gioino of @fortune.com for her very good article about the pitfalls and power of AI, and the paperback release of my book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (@wwnorton.com)
fortune.com/2026/03/06/n...
Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power at next election per FT. Putin will ensure the the corrupt Orban continues to wreak havoc in the #EU.
Orbán's rival accuses kremlin of new smear blitz in #Hungary election
🖊️ Max Griera
The opposition fears that an impending barrage of disinformation videos aims to force its candidates out of the race.
www.politico.eu/article/vikt...
These companies are all actively involved in tracking, targeting and destroying targets in Iran.
Dublins non existent Metro begins not by laying tracks but with a 50,000ft2 head office for 400 office staff! #NTA again lets us down!
Spain and Norway Expose the Bankruptcy of Europe's Iran Response www.socialeurope.eu/spain-and-no...
www.rte.ie/news/ireland... our PM could learn from Sanchez how to stand up to the bully Trump esp when Martin goes to White House next week for St Patrick’s Day.☘️
And Trumps war has pushed up prices everywhere!
Good for Starmer! Go Green faster & become independent of the Middle Eastern Tyrants’ fossil fuel!
Swedish private equity group takes 42% stake in Yorkshire Water.
Thames Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, South West Water and Wessex Water gutted by PE.
All have criminal convictions, dump sewage in rivers, profiteer. 90% of England's water is foreign owned.
Expect more looting.
The Irish Left is contaminated by anti tax Populists. Rich dudes pay carbon tax’s so why did she call for them to be relived of it? Illogical! Target welfare subsidies for less well off is one mitigation
@rteradio1.bsky.social what a silly ignorant idea by a “left” reactionary on Saturday O’Hara programme to cut carbon taxes in response to Trumps war! We need to accelerate the drive to the solar/green economy; reduce our dependence on fossil fuels as fast as we can! Carbon taxes is one incentive
I just finished Michael Connolly‘s “the proving Ground an excellent thriller starring Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller taking on a nasty AI company.
@anthropic.com the AI company refused
to give the Pentagon full control over how it’s technology was to be used. Anthropic is now barred from military supply chains. The company wants to put some guard rails on the use of mass surveillance of Americans and on autonomous weapons. A good BigTech firm
Geo Prokopiou, the Billionaire Greek shipping magnate is breathing the Strait of Hormuz to bring out oil. The international transport workers Federation #itwf has mandated that the cruise who volunteer would get double pay and benefits - this would be well deserved.
Sadly in Ireland unions do not have the right to bargain/ represent workers unless the employer agrees! Yet most multinationals are organised but only Apple in Big Tech
#Tesla union busting in Germany shows the power of Big Tech Capital over workers’s right to organise. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Sanchez has refused to let the US use the two jointly operated military basis in Spain to strike Iran in the illegal war. He is also criticised the US Israeli attacks calling them unjust. Trump and Turner has threatened to punish terrible Spain by cutting off oil and maybe all commerce -A bully boy.
Sanchez has become the whipping boy for Trump‘s mega movement. He should be proud to be the only #EU leader to stand up for European social and economic values against this tyrant.
Congratulations to Pedro Sanchez PM of Spain for standing up to Trump. He said “it’s absolutely unacceptable that those leaders are incapable of fulfilling the duty of making peoples lives better, use the smoke of war to hide their failures and, in the process, line in the pockets of a few.”
Ireland’s GDP rose by a whopping 12.3% last year. However this does not reflect the material well-being in the Irish economy for Irish people
-that is measured by another metric and that shows a very nice 4.9% growth rate in 2025.
I support independent Media :- CNN has been & CBS News have been acquired by David Ellison son of Larry the billionaire owner of Oracle. David Ellison controls two of America’s biggest news organisations, attended Trump‘s “state of the union” Address with a republican. CBS is being neutered.
Nuns seeking €40m from sale of landmark Dublin 4 property. The government must buy this and locate the new National Maternity Hospital here, not on St Vincent’s (next door) owned by nuns with hostile views on women’s reproductive health!
www.irishtimes.com/property/com...
Blair also did good work on Northern Ireland peace process!
A great 3 part series on Tony Blair! A neo-liberal deregulator esp of finance & privatiser; a war monger; and vassel to the US especially Trump! Lots of charisma who did some good on child poverty but overall negative impact on the UK & world.
