Colman Reilly

European, IE, UK. Ballet. Martial arts. Maths. Science. Politics. Economics. History. Food. If I was richer I'd be a dilettante. @colmanareilly on the bird site.

Twitter: @colmanareilly
Eurotrib (politics): [@colman@social.eurotrib.com](https://social.eurotrib.com/@colman )
Pixelfed: Colman Reilly (npub1dmm…n2qr)
Notes: https://publish.obsidian.md/colmanreilly

Public Key

npub1tnsddzh6u8dx89dznz0prrteuz4e4vk7xf5r5fppjc7kvutwr7ws9tsnct

NIP-05 Address

colman_at_mastodon.ie@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9ecxk3tawrknrjk3f38s334u7p2u6kt0ry6p6yssev0txw9hpl8gprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt84jtpq

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Author Public Key

npub1tnsddzh6u8dx89dznz0prrteuz4e4vk7xf5r5fppjc7kvutwr7ws9tsnct

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-05-18 16:43:14 UTC

- reply

it’s a thing: large heavy duty “sacks” with drainage designed for the job.

2026-05-18 16:40:00 UTC

- reply

potato growing bags?

2026-05-17 10:12:21 UTC

- reply

slightly different in that the drift away from economic reality on the Anglo world has been more self-delusional (though that may be true of the Zionists too): propaganda works and the people who spend most time listening to it are those who spread it. They end up believing it.
Thatcherism, austerity, and Brexit all required self-delusion and it’s been snow balling. Which is one of the reasons Labour are screwed: they’re Very Serious and trapped within the Very Serious delusions.

2026-05-17 09:56:57 UTC

- reply

what he doesn’t say — can’t, probably — is that this is the point of a lot of Zionist propaganda over the last couple of decades at least. They want us to conflate Zionism and Zionist run Israel with Judaism as a shield against criticism. It’s been internalised by a lot of the Very Serious left and centre in a lot of countries.
A lot of anti-Jewish violence is stochastic terrorism stoked by Zionists.

2026-05-02 08:01:44 UTC

- reply

because the Zionist propaganda operation has long encouraged it.

2026-04-08 19:47:58 UTC

- reply

except for the anti-immigrant talk and the climate change deniers and the far right hangers on.

2026-04-07 19:54:24 UTC

- reply

and here I am trying to figure out non-creepy ways of complimenting my younger but adult ballerina colleagues on their dancing.

2026-04-07 18:37:53 UTC

- reply

they’ll bother you in a grocery shop? Regularly?

2026-03-22 09:30:22 UTC

- reply

the centre right always prefers fascists to anything progressive. Especially the authoritarian centre right as exemplified by the upper reaches of Starmer’s Labour.

2026-03-15 09:20:15 UTC

- reply

Naughton is one of those guys who’s normally late to being wrong about everything? Though I have a similar view about the whole Internet thing. And television for that matter. We still haven’t adapted to TV.

2026-02-16 12:46:13 UTC

- reply

If he wants some English-Scots-Irish culture I'd suggest "Fuck off with your racist bollocks you wee lump of Nazi shite".

2026-02-13 09:15:58 UTC

- reply

make people pay to the external costs of their activities, account for external benefits of public spending and take infrastructure into account when calculating government debts.

2026-01-21 18:55:38 UTC

- reply

they’ve been taught to think like that for decades. It’s part of the methodology of neoliberalism.

2026-01-17 09:16:06 UTC

- reply

that wasn’t a referendum, it was a badly run opinion poll.
Have a look at what questions are put in Irish referendums — specific decisions on changes to the constitution. Not general aspirations that can be twisted.

2025-12-22 09:32:51 UTC

- reply

I maintain that Thatcher used the proceeds of EU membership and North Sea oil to mask that she was starting to concentrate money and power back into the hands of the rich. The start of the counter revolution.
Most of her successors don’t understand that at all: they believe it was her announced principles wot did it.

2025-12-22 08:39:37 UTC

- reply

the first thing you need is a way to stop people just taking your stuff. There’s no market without that.

2025-12-20 09:43:06 UTC

- reply

see his comments about three capitalists meeting being a conspiracy.
We could have chosen to distribute the gains from globalisation (or the EU or North Sea oil or new technologies) fairly. We chose not to and zero sum thinking was deployed to justify that. It’s a lot easier to understand than the network effects involved in positive sum thinking.

2025-12-20 09:30:14 UTC

- reply

a free market is an oxymoron. Markets are created by regulation.

2025-12-18 18:15:12 UTC

- reply

unless the receiver discovers evidence of fraud or something like that which raises the corporate veil.

2025-12-17 11:00:03 UTC

- reply

depends how much you eat, doesn’t it? Probably a bit better balanced than a lot of diets though and often less calorie dense.

2025-12-09 19:28:28 UTC

- reply

this stuff is all positive sum. The EU isn’t a charity: Brexit was bad for everyone.

2025-12-09 18:17:40 UTC

- reply

there's a perfectly good sequence of steps that give a path back incrementally and build trust as you go. A vet deal and customs deals for a start.

2025-11-25 10:50:15 UTC

- reply

as usual, corruption, incompetence and possibly hostility to the city from a rural ruling class is a big g factor.

2025-11-15 16:16:40 UTC

- reply

isn’t it mostly yet another effect of the gross under resourcing of mental health services?

2025-11-15 09:57:06 UTC

- reply

getting into power against the ruins of the Tory party wasn’t exactly a great achievement either.

2025-11-07 11:17:26 UTC

- reply

absolutely. A friend of mine says that losing the distinction in the media between political economists, who are intent on justifying a predetermined outcome, and scientific economists who are interested in studying how economies work, has done a lot of damage.
I’ve also seen people who straddle the two complain that the scientific ones don’t speak up when their research is abused.

2025-11-07 09:47:45 UTC

- reply

a lot of the popular right wing ideas never made any economic sense even in their own terms.

2025-10-09 12:05:32 UTC

Jesus fucking christ people, companies are not your fucking friends.

2025-08-10 10:03:26 UTC

- reply

I really don’t think they do.
Have you ever seen the output of the Bruges Group?

2025-08-10 09:21:31 UTC

- reply

British (English?) politics has been increasingly unmoored from reality for a century now.
Denial of the loss of empire and power, the whole Thatcherite pretence that the benefits of joining the EU and North Sea oil were down to privatisation. Her heirs cultish adherence to austerity, which requires scapegoats to blame and distract. I don’t think there’s more than a handful of MPs or journalists left with any idea what’s really going on or how things actually work.

2025-07-21 17:42:28 UTC

- reply

accountancy practice reviews and other paperwork ask about "high risk" clients - cash business skirting along the edge of legality falls into that category, I imagine, even before you chunk the general stigma into the mix. Same as politicians and celebrities.
Maybe not, but I'd be surprised.

2025-07-21 17:37:49 UTC

- reply

get a couple of sex workers on your books and I suspect you're asking for regular audits by your professional body, which you can't afford if you're small and if you're big you won't take them for fear of scandal.

2025-07-12 21:09:05 UTC

- reply

I don’t think the author meant you to assume that though.

2025-07-12 21:08:16 UTC

- reply

my question is why the state representing 1/3 of world population shouldn’t have power. Is it really worse than the US?

2025-07-12 21:05:11 UTC

- reply

as if the US isn’t a malign actor on the world stage. 🙄

2025-07-12 08:52:56 UTC

- reply

one issue with that: the rich have *always* had (almost always un acknowledged) good luck.

2025-07-08 17:34:42 UTC

- reply

what gets me is that so many people knew about this long ago. The Register have been writing about it since 2013. At least.
https://www.theregister.com/2013/07/09/post_office_admits_false_accusations_after_computer_system_cockup/

2025-07-07 18:49:21 UTC

- reply

I was about to say “find the manual and read it” for a start.
Only way to make sense of the controls - 35 years and tens of cameras later it’s still the first thing I do.

2025-06-27 11:08:26 UTC

- reply

I'm convinced they're all in a race to destroy anything good left about the UK. Fuck knows there isn't much for them to do now.
I don't know why though. It's not just selfishness or asset stripping, half the time there's no money to be made.
Maybe they're just so shrivelled inside after doing what you have to do to get power these says that they destroy anything good out of resentment.

2024-09-04 07:47:41 UTC

- reply

public transport can’t be effectively run as a profit centre because most of the economic benefits don’t accrue to the passengers, they’re external.
I’ve read that the only tube line that ever made a profit was the Metropolitan, and only because they were the only ones allowed do property development along the lines they built so they could hoover up some of the external benefits.

2024-08-09 17:24:51 UTC

- reply

not even them, in medium term.

2024-08-09 12:06:43 UTC

- reply

it’s genocide. One for which they’ve been laying groundwork for a long time. Fundamentalist ethnic/religious nationalists are all the same.

2024-08-09 11:59:48 UTC

- reply

I think she means “condemn genocide in Palestine”, which is equivalent to “support Hamas” in her somewhat twisted world view.