The US just bombed multiple targets in a heavily populated city full of innocent civilians. Maduro's legitimacy is not the main point here.

The world's biggest rogue state strikes again... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Private water company bosses in England still pocketing lucrative bonuses - £170,000 for a former Wessex Water chief, here - after criminal pollution failures on their watch. This is in spite of Labour government's ban on performance-related pay... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Lough Neagh fisherman takes Stormont department to court over faltering response to pollution crisis at UK and Ireland's largest inland water body m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environ...

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal

'Deeply troubling': 63% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown thedetail.tv/articles/dee...

Prior to these testing stats being obtained, Stormont officials were warned that, as a result of capacity pressures at many wastewater plants, "a significant proportion of the biological load that arises in each catchment does not reach the treatment works". How much of that ends up in Lough Neagh?

Chile elects extreme right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast - son of a Nazi Party member and an admirer of Pinochet - following severe 'law and order' campaign which promised deportation of undocumented migrants, largely from Venezuela: www.reuters.com/world/americ...

NI Water’s pollution performance far below official figures, documents reveal @tommygreene.bsky.social thedetail.tv/articles/ni-...

Chuffed to be part of this latest edition of View Digital magazine advocating for universal healthcare. viewdigital.org/latest-issue...

President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with historic frequency to aid allies and advance his own political grievances.

Yes, I think many don't realise the kind of organised crime groups running these sites. I know @tommygreene.bsky.social has written about how in NI there are actually paramilitary groups involved in this sort of activity: m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environ...

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

“Your responsibility in life is to take forward those things that you believe in, and eternal life is no more, in my book I’ve discovered, than doing that so that the things you believe in will live after you.” Bernadette Devlin Full podcast here: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

Tendering concerns highlighted over Lough Neagh consultants, forcing management body the Lough Neagh Partnership to reprocure contract www.impartialreporter.com/news/2559533...

Catherine Connolly set to claim the highest ever first-preference vote share (potentially upwards of 60%) in an Irish presidential election, based on readings of early tallies www.reuters.com/world/left-w...

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Great investigation into how a government initiative to force rogue bosses to pay up after tribunal findings against them is still failing workers nearly a decade after its launch 👇

Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libya trial

Great interview with Davy Adams in the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

📅 This week: join the conversation on Lough Neagh’s future 🌊 The new report is already live — setting the scene for a Citizens’ Assembly and opening nominations for a co-design group. 💬 On 12 Sept, take part in our launch event to ask questions + discuss what comes next 👇 🔗 lu.ma/zsw0617g

Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Appeal tribunal throws out NHS whistleblower's challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails midway through legal hearing. @drcmday.bsky.social tells @computerweekly.bsky.social judges have "ignored" and trivialised the attempted mass evidence destruction www.computerweekly.com/news/3666298...

A Singapore-based coal firm is suing the UK Govt via the type of Investor Courts* that the Irish Govt are rushing to introduce to Ireland via CETA. *found to be unconstitutional Supreme Court- Costello vs Govt of Ireland

“If politicians cannot offer more than gesture politics and get to grips with this area of policy, every indication is that cyanobacterial (or “blue-green algae”) blooms will become a recurrent event for many summers to come.”

Bernadette McAliskey: With “water we can’t really drink” and “fish [that] can’t live… We have exploited [Lough Neagh] and ignored it. And now, nature is – quite rightly – taking her revenge.” @tommygreene.bsky.social

🔴 NEW: UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case that could cost the taxpayer billions. 📝 @tommygreene.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/11/u...

Insightful writing on Lough Neagh, as ever, from @tommygreene.bsky.social. #LoughNeagh

“The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.” on.ft.com/3If9Cpx

I had a look at the NHS maternity scandals of the past few years and this is what I found… journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Jair Bolsonaro and several close allies must stand trial over attempts to overturn 2022 election, Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously decides. Becomes country's first former president to be charged with plotting or attempting to instigate a coup g1.globo.com/politica/not...

Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat aje.io/ylcl1j

Some disabled people could lose up to £10,000 in benefits by the end of this decade through Labour government's planned welfare reforms www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Northern Ireland's utility regulator launches investigation into NI Water, the agency confirms...but only after a senior NI Water official "dodged" two MLA questions on the probe at a recent Stormont infrastructure committee session. In yesterday's @irishnews.com www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Great piece by @tommygreene.bsky.social investigating tax breaks to big landowners in Northern Ireland - following a thread I've been investigating in England HMRC needs to urgently review this tax break & reform or abolish it if it's not delivering public value for money bsky.app/profile/tomm...

Three major landowners/landed estates in NI benefiting from tax break estimated to be worth at least £68m overall. My latest piece for @irishnews.com www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

⬇️ Some serious questions raised in this piece - wider issues around surveillance of journalists but also on the motivation behind placing Mr McIntyre under surveillance as he began the Noah Donohoe investigation. 📰 @belfasttelegraph.co.uk ✍️ @sjamcbride.bsky.social

Mid-Ulster engineering firm told workers to come to production site during the peak of 'danger to life' Storm Éowyn, billed as Ireland's most powerful storm in more than a decade. Story in today's @irishnews.com www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

'There is a decades-long history of local people resisting state-led and private forestry initiatives across Leitrim. The recent involvement of overseas speculative financial vehicles...have lent fresh impetus to local opposition.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two stories of mine on the front of today's @irishnews.com. One piece reveals the number of times US military aircraft has used Aldergrove as a stopover for planes travelling to Middle East since Oct '23. Second reports that only 2.5% of all farm-source water pollution cases prosecuted in a decade

Journalist spied on by PSNI says he’s still a victim of police ‘whispering campaign’ - www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees

New report from @bronamcneill.bsky.social & others at the Environmental Justice Network Ireland urges greater transparency in Lough Neagh responses to date. Democratic "gaps" in various developing responses "are undermining public confidence in proposed solutions." www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Work for @theguardian.com from County Leitrim & County Fermanagh with journalist @tommygreene.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/... #leitrim #fermanagh #ireland #photography #photojournalism

State and private bodies' efforts to meet climate targets through non-native monoculture woodland have led to local discontent in Ireland's border region, where disputes over land use have deep roots and ancient sits alongside the modern. For @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...