Darran McLaughlin

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

On the 1st of October 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.

Extraordinary stuff.

Videos show torrents of water gushing through the streets of Spain’s Valencia after heavy rainfall, raising fears of a repeat of last year’s floods, the deadliest in decades.

:events – bookhaus: Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol BS1 6ZJ. Opening hours. Mon & Tues 9am – 6pm, Wed – Sat 9am – 8pm, Sun 10am – 6pm

🌱TODAY🌱

@kmilb.bsky.social and Frances Northrop discuss Radical Abundance

🗓️Wed, Sept 24
⏰6 pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

:events – bookhaus: Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol BS1 6ZJ. Opening hours. Mon & Tues 9am – 6pm, Wed – Sat 9am – 8pm, Sun 10am – 6pm

🌱TOMORROW🌱

@kmilb.bsky.social and Frances Northrop discuss Radical Abundance

🗓️Wed, Sept 24
⏰6 pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

:events – bookhaus: Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol BS1 6ZJ. Opening hours. Mon & Tues 9am – 6pm, Wed – Sat 9am – 8pm, Sun 10am – 6pm

🌱BOOK EVENT🌱

@kmilb.bsky.social and Frances Northrop discuss Radical Abundance

🗓️Wed, Sept 24
⏰6 pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

Where is Alan Partridge on that list? Ridiculous

TRUMP JUST PATTED STARMER LIKE A PET DOG!

:events – bookhaus: Bookhaus, 4 Rope Walk, Bristol BS1 6ZJ. Opening hours. Mon & Tues 9am – 6pm, Wed – Sat 9am – 8pm, Sun 10am – 6pm

🌱BOOK EVENT🌱

@kmilb.bsky.social and Frances Northrop discuss Radical Abundance

🗓️Wed, Sept 24
⏰6 pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

You know how I hate to harp on about this, but nothing is ever going to change until we address it: How can this have happened when all our loudest political commentators stridently agreed *for years* that the public were crying out for these Serious people and these Sensible policies?

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

This will be good! Miranda Kaufman with her new book…

Join me this evening as I discuss Indignity with @leaypi.bsky.social

Here's the group. Everyone loved the book!

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership?

Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word.

Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles.

He is a coward. He should resign.

4 panel comic Panel 1: silhouette of a hooded figure Panel 2: Republican screaming “ KILL THAT TR*NNY F*GGOT” Panel 3: hooded figure turns to reveal that he is a Republican Panel 4: First Republican falls to his knees. He grips the shooter’s hand and looks to the heavens. He says “God forgive this young man. He knows not what he did”

Republican Flip Flop

🚨 BREAKING | 1,339 people have now been arrested on "terrorism" charges in 2025, with almost all of them busted for holding signs at pro-Palestine protests.

This is more than any year on record, by far.

(Source: Home Office)

Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…

Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.

"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...

UK Ambassador Told Epstein ‘I Think the World of You,’ Emails Reveal Peter Mandelson, the prominent Labour politician who was named British ambassador to the US this year, expressed steadfast support and offered to discuss Epstein’s now-infamous 2008 case with his cont...

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

A window display of Lea Ypi's books

Come and join us next Monday the 15th to celebrate the publication of Indignity by @leaypi.bsky.social! Tickets are available here hdfst.uk/e132120

Attention Bristol. On Wednesday 24th September we'll be discussing our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future at Bookhaus.

Get your tickets from the link below.

www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

🔎 A cop with a #Banksy Palestine tattoo, policing Saturday’s anti genocide protest in London. What a spot, what a shot!

One of many really good #Photojournalism images by Troy Walker on IG.

I like how he carefully frames shots & scenes, & captures emotion, irony & tells a story.

More in my 🧵

We read Exhalation in my reading group a couple of months ago and we're reading White Cat, Black Dog for the reading group in a couple of weeks. This is a perfect anecdote for me to bring to the group

'Trespassers to trustees' - community centre wins council legal battle The council will now have to pay a hefty legal bill

Victory for the community running the Kuumba Centre in Bristol. They’ve been called trespassers for years by Bristol City Council, but left the court as trustees…
Read more here👇🏼

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Last year LBC ended my show after my interview with an Israeli official went viral. I’ve had lots of interview requests since then but I wanted to wait for the right outlet. Meet ‘Turn Left’: a volunteer led, independent, media org, who focus on reporting important news stories & political issues.

Last book I read: Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment
Book by Matt Broomfield
Current read: Dawn by Octavia Butler
Last book added to my tbr: White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
Next read: One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse