Brendan McCarthy

Writer and journalist (formerly BBC, RTE and The Tablet). Irish. Francophile.

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

I am very sorry to hear the news. Ed Stourton was a superb broadcaster who had the best kind of male ego, always at the service of the programme and never deployed to intimidate. His Catholicism came naturally and was a huge part of him. Requiescat. https://t.co/SZokjAQWhd

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

@MichaelLCrick Maybe the first PM with real ‘hinterland’ (in Denis Healey’s sense of the word) since Macmillan and maybe Heath.

[Phil J @PhilJC2]

This is quite the vox pop.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

V fine essay on how the UK has lost its old place in the world and is failing so far to find a new one. https://t.co/63jrnREuGN via @NYTOpinion

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

This, from the Financial Times, highlights an important issue to watch in the coming weeks.
While currently high, oil prices would have climbed significantly more were it not for a large drawdown in energy inventories -- this in the high-stakes race between continued depletion and efforts to restore more normal energy shipments from the Middle East.
Adding to the complexity, the remaining inventories are not evenly distributed across energy importers, and neither is the structural resilience or availability of alternative sources.
#economy #markets #middleeastwar #oil #energy @FT

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

I find it hard to disagree with this piece. Boy George did a public service on RTÉ’s Late Late Show. He revealed something unsavoury of Ireland to itself - a thoughtless anti-Semitism which has infected Irish life. https://t.co/CuHKGtEwB6

[LBC @LBC]

‘He’s not looking for a fight… he showed great courage.’

Ralph Fiennes tells @AndrewMarr9 he’s a ‘big fan’ of Pope Leo and his choice to speak out about Trump’s ‘obscene’ waging of war.

[France TV Londres @FranceTVLondres]

A Dublin, il n'est pas rare de tomber nez à nez avec des chevaux en liberté galopant entre les voitures. Une tradition des quartiers populaires aujourd'hui critiquée par les associations de défense des animaux. 🐴 @ABouleis @Charlinemdn

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

Bravo Jemima Kelly. Best piece in today’s FT (“The hunger for ‘content’ keeps us culturally stuck”)

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

CNN projects James Talarico to win the Democrat Texas primary for November’s Senate elections. https://t.co/pUrYM9OR9l

[Semafor @semafor]

🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, former BBC News boss Deborah Turness joins Semafor for her first public interview since resigning amid a controversy over an editorial mishap involving a Donald Trump speech.

She talks about whether the BBC is truly impartial, how she handled newsroom blind spots around rising populist movements like the UK's Reform party, and why she believes public media can survive a polarized age.

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

@MassimoFaggioli @IrishTimes lacks good instincts for stories about religion. Strange in a country where faith, even in decline, still has cultural resonance.

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

First ever tweet in Irish by an Indian leader.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Is cloch mhíle shuntasach inár gcaidrimh é conchlúid an  Chomhaontaithe Saorthrádála idir An India agus an tAontas Eorpach inniu. Gabhaim buíochas le ceannairí uile na hEorpa thar na blianta as a spiorad cuiditheach agus as a dtiomantas a rinne an éacht seo indéanta. Neartóidh an comhaontú seo na ceangail eacnamaíocha, cruthóidh sé deiseanna dár muintir agus daingneoidh sé an chomhpháirtíocht idir an India agus an Eoraip ar mhaithe le todhchaí rathúil.

[Massimo Faggioli @MassimoFaggioli]

this is big: cardinals Cupich, Tobin and McElroy urge the Trump administration to step back from foreign policy strategies and goals that threaten world peace
https://t.co/AePBPK6Jg3

[Massimo Faggioli @MassimoFaggioli]

Catholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland, according to the bishop responsible for their pastoral care, Broglio (former president USCCB). @The_Tablet
https://t.co/A4s6ABIvPN

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Extraordinary story via @AlbertoNardelli

Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump says in the letter obtained by Bloomberg.

“The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” the US president added.

https://t.co/VSSAnH297X

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Exclusive from ⁦@MSNOWNews⁩ : There has been a mass resignation among leaders in the criminal section of the Department of Justice civil rights division over the failure to investigate the Minneapolis ICE shooting. With ⁦@CarolLeonnig⁩ https://t.co/1Vsc6S5cgA

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

Jemima Kelly is increasingly finding her voice as a FT columnist. Lively piece today on why men read so little fiction.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Brilliant, Marsh Family. You look at Trump and see what tens of millions of Americans stubbornly refuse to see.

[Brendan McCarthy @breandanmcc]

In addition to BBC Persian, Iran International (Saudi funded and London based) is a useful source of news on Iran https://t.co/kDebCpsyla