Who is funding the fuel protest's online campaign?

Political mobilisation does not scale "spontaneously", and, once that fire is lit, there is no controlling what it burns.

2025 Wrap Up: Moments of the Year

I will be on Virgin Media later this evening for the Tonight Show’s end of year review, and I thought I would share some of my speaking notes with you here.  We’ve been asked to prep our “of the year”s; moment, story, villain and person. I only

Highest percentage and highest number of votes in the history of the Irish Presidency

The results are in; Catherine Connolly won the Irish Presidential election of 2025, gathering 914,143 - or 63% - of the vote. There is a lot of talk of spoiled ballots (including from me) - but - this win is historically comprehensive. Catherine Connolly has garnered the highest percentage

#Aras25 Campaign Roundup

Over the last few months I have tried to dig out and get on the record some of the hidden and more ephemeral aspects of this election. Here is a recap of what we covered.

Meta allows deepfake "election cancelled" content to spread in #Aras25

This video is worrying; it shows a combination of both intent and skill in building out very deceptive content, in a way that resonates with Irish audiences.

Comedy wins in #Aras25 content battle

Aoife Dunne's "Sorry now" video is one of the most subtle yet devastating pieces of political content I have ever seen.

Fine Gael's Attack Video: Áras25 in Content

By burying the lede and handing over airtime, have Fine Gael committed an own goal?

Our first American-style election?

Our politics is a techno-coloured pick-and-mix, this election is a Soviet department store

The financial hit of Jim Gavin bowing out

Fianna Fáil unlikely to get the €250k back from the state they would have if Jim Gavin had run

Is Google rewriting history?

Have the dates on Google's Fidesz ads changed in its ad archive?

Google just erased 7 years of our political history

Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had been told

Which news sites are surviving the death of Google optimisation?

3 good reads and some Linkedin news you can use