Jonathan Mills
@Muinchille
Irish finance, economics & Brexit. RT's may be ironic, satirical or just plain astonished.🇮🇪
Demographics has killed the market. At least the magical, self-adjusting, invisible hand of wisdom market we were all taught to believe in. The left wing should be deleriously happy, except that they depend on it as much as the rest of us do....
The Grand High Panjandrum of the Loyal Orange Order is slipping... border counties, eh? It'll be Meath next, and then before you know it, they'll be in An Daingean. Is this another BelTel off the reservation moment?
Am I seriously listening to Mervyn Gibson complaining about the BBC reporting on things happening in Ireland😂😂 He'll accept border county reports but no further down the country than that 🙄 It shouldn't be happening says he 🙈 Barking & totally paranoid @williamcrawley
Henry VIII's "the King's middle way" in practice. Very moderate.
22 July 1540: Robert Barnes, leading #English Lutheran & a man personally known to Martin Luther is attainted as a heretic #otd. Burnt at #Smithfield on 30 July - with two others while three Catholics were hanged, drawn & quartered at Tyburn the same day (eebo)
But, but, it's the principle of the thing...
You might think a planning application for a wind farm is good news. You’d be wrong - Michael McDowell in today’s @irishtimes michaelmcdowell.ie/you-might-thin…
Tell me you know nothing about the Irish economy without admitting it...
Today, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe delivered the Summer Economic Statement. It outlines how Fine Gael will invest in our public services and build a better country for all.
The "employee consultation" processes, intended to produce alternatives, can be used by management and "favoured" staff to do this, as those who have been secretly told in advance they would keep their jobs use the meetings to push out the others like cuckoos in the nest. Grim.
“One person told the report that it was like “watching the birth of fascism” as colleagues singled out for redundancy were deliberately isolated” This sets the stage for a coordinated mobbing campaign— a tactic employed by HR & senior leadership to engineer dismissals
State postal monopolies were very controversial in the 1800s. To read British history, you'd think no one sent a letter before the Royal Mail, but they replaced existing local services with lucrative monopolies for favourites, and that was a major factor in 1798 rebellion. Here's…
In 1844, a radical lawyer from Massachusetts did something extraordinary. He didn't just complain about government monopoly; he built something better. Lysander Spooner was the anarchist who single-handedly challenged the entire U.S. postal system. And won. 🧵
I kinda doubt that those who care little for their own country or people care very much about Europe and the EU.
The obotuary of Diarmaid Mac Murchadha... A4M1171.4 Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, King of Leinster, by whom a trembling sod was made of all Ireland, —after having brought over the Saxons, after having done extensive injuries to the Irish, after plundering and burning many churches, as…
Most desperate neoliberal-left decline headline so far...
The New Yorker having a normal one.
Finally some common sense ? Bloomberg reports that the BoE is about to ditch retail CBDC plans (for bs reasons). Maybe time for ECB to wake up ?
🚨 THIS IS BIG 🚨 Kilkenny County Council just unanimously called for an end to planning exemptions for IPAS. This is unprecedented. The motion was proposed by independent @MauriceSCHP but has gotten cross party support. And it makes total sense. IPAS centres are multi…
In the end Micheál Martin's greatest achievement will be engineering a crash without having a boom first. This one will go down in the annals.
Unionists continue to be basically horrified that republicans are still absolutely shameless about being republican.
GAA President Jarlath Burns paying tribute to a former IRA leader Seán Treacy. All week, Unionists have been lambasted for suggesting that the GAA has a political dimension and contains aspects that are problematic and hinder their involvement. These concerns are valid.
Interesting point. Effectively, politicians after WWII started to control economies by controlling money. Since money is an imaginary quantity, that turned out to be much easier than managing actual stuff and real people, both of which can be intractable and hard work. So they…
Today I learned that in 1944, the UK had a working population of 24m against a total of 48m, and today has a working population of 28m against a total of 69m. In the 80 intervening years, worker productivity growth has exceeded 2% per year, on average, for a total of over 5x.…
How many are like me, ordinary people who see this behavior as everything we stood against? Where do we Ex FF's go? I honestly can't believe there's no proper Nationalist Party to hover us up. People who infight while the place burns will never have my vote. Cop yourself on!
"The nation state is a very new concept": Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he "stands over" the view that the Irish were never a "homogenous" group, adding that despite historical "incursions and invasions", "we tend to make people more Irish than the Irish themselves."
A useful point to remember when some troglodyte trots out the condolences myth. Interestingly, the only recording there is of Hitler's normal speaking voice is of him discussing the Winter War, and saying it meant the Nazi project was screwed if war was to continue in winter.
I’m tired of Finland being labeled a Nazi collaborator. That claim disregards the historical context & oversimplifies the harsh reality Finland faced during World War II. Finland’s cooperation with Germany was not ideological, but a matter of survival. After the Winter War, in…
You'd worry about this if you thought she'd a snowball in Hell's chance of ever getting back into power...
For the first time, I’ve set out the plan for leaving the ECHR. To secure our borders, protect our veterans and restore sovereignty, we must rewrite the Belfast Agreement Pleased to have cross-party support for these proposals. The time to leave is now. Watch the film here 👇
Health employers including hospitals, nursing homes and disability services have been warned of a number of health staff supplied by an agency who were discovered to have falsified references. “The issues which have been identified to us include an international reference from a…
In further news about the BelTel's extra-reservation excursion. It seems that the editor's name is Eoin...
Belfast Telegraph's editor-in-chief is Eoin Brannigan. He also oversees the Sunday Life newspaper. He was appointed to the role in 2020, joining from the Irish Daily Star based in Dublin, where he had been editor.