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What you want to say –10 June 2026 As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.

20 years of this place! The Cedar Lounge Revolution is 20 years old today. Yep, this was the first post from the Cedar Lounge Revolution, June 10th 2006. Difficult to believe it's weathered the subsequent two decades more or less intact. It has been a sort of collective, a diary, a sounding board,…

Does this guy know what an open border or mass migration is? From the Guardian a failed by-election candidate writes: Musk rejects claim he is to blame for inciting disorder in Belfast Elon Musk has rejected claims that he is to blame for inciting disorder in Belfast. In a post on X, the platform…

A ‘left wing government within touching distance’? So said Holly Cairns of the Social Democrats. The Irish Times political podcast was sceptical of that proposition, and made the point that currently an SF/FF government is more likely post-election, than any left government. Certainly the polls do…

That must have been an interesting Renew Europe ‘event’ yesterday. Couldn't help but notice in the piece on the Rotunda and consultants controversy that the Taoiseach was answering questions on the issue in Cork. Not such a strange thing, but interesting detail: During a press conference at a…

Meet the new partitionists… some of them are the old partitionists too Speaking of borders: The Government has held discussions with Stormont and Westminster after concerns were raised about the Common Travel Area in the wake of Monday's attack in Belfast. The British government intends to step up…

If Burnham wins Makerfield… Good to see that John McDonnell was talking at the Robert Tressell Festival - interviewed by Marie Sherlock, Labour TD, no less. His take on the British Labour leadership election is intriguing: said if Burnham does win he expects members of the cabinet to make it clear…

As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.

Yep, this was the first post from the Cedar Lounge Revolution, June 10th 2006. Difficult to believe it's weathered the subsequent two decades more or less intact. It has been a sort of collective, a diary, a sounding board, with a spin off into an online Archive, podcast and other areas including reasonably regular meet-ups for a pint. To be honest it's all your fault, all of you, because while it waxes and wanes somehow people keep coming back with thoughts, opinions, ideas. Thank you everyone.

So said Holly Cairns of the Social Democrats. The Irish Times political podcast was sceptical of that proposition, and made the point that currently an SF/FF government is more likely post-election, than any left government. Certainly the polls do not suggest a left-government is likely on the figures available. Given the day that's in it - twenty years in of this site, where the prospects of the left have brightened and dimmed, though perhaps not to the extent a left government was even close to being a serious prospect, what do people here think?

Couldn't help but notice in the piece on the Rotunda and consultants controversy that the Taoiseach was answering questions on the issue in Cork. Not such a strange thing, but interesting detail: During a press conference at a Renew Europe event in Cork, Martin was asked if he could envisage a scenario where funding was withheld from the Rotunda. He replied: “The bottom line there is the consultants voluntarily signed up to the public-only contract and many of us are very surprised at the turn of events.”

Good to see that John McDonnell was talking at the Robert Tressell Festival - interviewed by Marie Sherlock, Labour TD, no less. His take on the British Labour leadership election is intriguing: said if Burnham does win he expects members of the cabinet to make it clear to Starmer he must stand down, with Burnham then being handed the leadership unchallenged.

From the Guardian a failed by-election candidate writes: Musk rejects claim he is to blame for inciting disorder in Belfast Elon Musk has rejected claims that he is to blame for inciting disorder in Belfast. In a post on X, the platform he owns, Musk retweeted a post from Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate at the recent Gorton and Denton byelection, saying:

Speaking of borders: The Government has held discussions with Stormont and Westminster after concerns were raised about the Common Travel Area in the wake of Monday's attack in Belfast. The British government intends to step up immigration checks, including operations on Common Travel Area routes to detect and arrest illegal immigrants. And: The move comes after DUP leader Gavin Robinson criticised the "open porous border" on the island of Ireland during a debate in the House of Commons.