"30 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland in the last six years - not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals."

English Labourites need to understand this point. John Swinney will basically talk to anyone to get legislation over the line, man doesn't like conflict where there can be consensus. But even he can come out and say "fuck these guys".

John Healey is an utterly decent man. Under his leadership of the MOD I saw real mettle on the issue of VAWG in armed forces and also his handling of the murder of Agnes Wanjiru was so far away from what their family had become accustomed to. A great man. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Would you believe this isn't even the maddest paragraph in the piece? spectator.com/article/rupe...

Absolutely rightX The Starmer defenders on here will go “you think he’s a disaster? But what about the last 14 years?” The reality is that bad prime ministers go in sequence because it takes a leader of real quality to not whine as Cameron did “why should I do the difficult shit?”

Every poll, on every issue, shows the folly of the Starmer-McSweeney “treat Reform voters as your lodestone and Tory voters like lepers” strategy.

It’s getting harder and harder to argue with the idea Kemi Badenoch is a good leader of the Conservative Party, as long as you ignore questions like “what is the electoral performance of the Tory party under her?”, “where was the Tory party polling when she took over?” and “what is the party for?”

This level of understanding of Ireland from a New Yorker with a name like "Kilmeade" is not new TBF, it is what funded and armed the IRA for decades

A Jewish friend sent this message to me this week and it hit home: "It’s a battle against the idea that we are permanently on probation, our presence tolerated only if our behaviour never drops below the high standards we’ve always set ourselves."

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

Add all those Waze and Strava records in and you’ve got accessibility of terrain and transit times for vehicles and foot soldiers.

"The Police Federation for Northern Ireland says twelve officers injured during disturbances last night is down to ‘violent fascist law-breakers’ who want to wreck Northern Ireland." [Belfast Telegraph]

Yes this *and* Sunak I might add. It offends me that Hunt is brought onto the politcal shows as some kind of wise old sage when in fact he set everything on fire on the way out.

Sadiq seems to be the one of very few prominent politicians who understands the having the confidence to stand your ground on common sense rather than pandering to every unreasonable interest group is not just the right thing to do but good politics too.

Facebook memories informs me it is the sixth anniversary of Ice Cube using this picture to prove some Erich Von Daniken shit about the Mexicans originally coming from Ethiopia, and forgetting to crop out “a gift from the people of Ethiopia from the people of Mexico” on the relevant picture

30 women have been murdered in the last 6 years in NI. No riots No burnt out cars and houses Nothing Everyone of those 30 women were murdered by a white man.

This one from @happytoast.co.uk seems apt

CANADA COMES TO THE RESCUE OF SOMALIAN REFEREE OMAR ARTAN! 🇨🇦🇸🇴 David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, has announced that his province would welcome Omar Artan. He stated that Artan should be allowed to referee World Cup matches within his jurisdiction, specifically in the host city of Vancouver.

"On one hand we have bound ourselves with a manifesto it will be impossible to govern on. But at least we have 30 more mp's who are certain to lose their seat at the next election."

90% opposition to violence matters. But "only" 4% condoning throwing bricks is 1 in 25 people (about 2.5 million adults; 4,000 people in a town of 100k) expressing support. Approx 5000 people rioted in total across 30 locations in summer 2024 disorder (2% were elated, 7% supportive, 12% condoned)

Belfast riots latest: Nurse chased into hospital by ‘racist’ masked gang as police injured in violent protests www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

When I meet people in the real world, they have 0% - and I mean zero - knowledge of the disaster unfolding in British HE. Even if their kids are actually at uni. They look at me as if I've gone mad. This is why. 👇

“There is a tendency by men to talk about trans women as the women that it's okay to be sexist about.” That’s really what so much of this is about, and that’s why the other shoe is always ready to drop.

Yes to all of this, but also let's not forget Jeremy Hunt, laying a trap (that Labour shouldn't have walked into) that basically salted the earth and has left the country weaker and less able to defend itself as an electoral gimmick

Compromise position emerging: Burnham compensates the WASPI women but then conscripts them all into the army

We are, basically, at war. It might be a grey zone, hybrid version, but it's happening as our chief ally has abandoned us and as our own politics are being manipulated and torn apart by hostile forces. And the PM has lost the confidence of the armed forces.

Of the 48 people arrested in relation to the race related disorder last year, of 23 had been reported for domestic abuse. Nearly half. Even worse than the proportion in the Southport riots which as quite bad enough. Domestic abuse looking like a 🚩 marker for wider race related violence & disorder

In the beginning, the media lines were lasting 24 days, Then twelve, then six, then every two days. The last one on WASPI compensation was a day. In four days, we could be seeing a new position every eight hours. Ed, we should witness a double event within seven days.

John Healey is an incredibly honourable man and was a capable Defence Secretary. His resignation should send a huge alarm bell that we are sleep walking into a crisis that leaves the country vulnerable if nothing changes.

It does all come back to the tax pledge, Hunt deliberately shafting them and Labour choosing to remain shafted has basically undermined their entire governing project.

The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

This is actually incredible and quite humbling. It has barely been 2 hours and I've raised nearly £2k. Most of it has come from Bluesky. I can't thank everyone enough, whether you have given or just shared. Let's smash the target - you're making JD Vance, Putin, and all the other Vatniks sad.

The issue at the BBC is twofold: First a default to "reporting the controversy" where they just repeat the arguments without commentary. This often means, with the right, just uncritically repeating bigotry. The other is an overuse of the passive voice, meaning it's never clear who said/did what.

As I reported last Thursday, and Politico now has the exclusive, that the UK-EU summit is in doubt... The ten-year-old story of a UK government putting itself under pressure by setting hasty deadlines thinking an agreement is just about text...

The Met Commissioner should have thought about achieving savings without becoming dependent on a single US supplier in a clearly unsustainable model. It's on them rather than Sadiq. Poor process and planning. www.ft.com/content/677b...

Justin Webb now stating as fact that in Northern Ireland - and across the U.K. - for years people ‘have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t Is there any evidence for this? Why is a presenter on the BBC stating this as fact?

Reports this morning that health staff in Northern Ireland have received letters telling them to leave the country or they'll be burnt out of their homes.

Regulatory action on X will take months and be supremely ineffective. The government leaving X could happen instantly and be immediately effective. It needs nothing except a decision.

Mark this moment. This is where the endgame begins—though it might take two years to play out. A President of the United States is openly linking the *Pentagon* and rigging elections for his party. He is framing an authoritarian takeover as something the *U.S. military* wants.

From the new edition of @privateeyenews.bsky.social: the CEO of the Great Britain Gambling Commission, Andrew Rhodes, has left his job to...become a consultant to the gambling industry he was paid to regulate five minutes ago? How wonderful for him. #jobsfortheboys

During the Select Committee Rebecca Paul MP stated that "Women and girls have lost medals and podium places, earnings, and some may have even been injured due to sporting bodies not complying with the Equality Act and allowing males to compete against them." We have asked her for evidence

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

Khan is very obviously not standing at the next Mayoral election and he - or his media team - has decided to go out swinging. I'm all for it.

Fundamentally, the British right has bet that the British public are, for want of a better word, bastards econ.st/3RXGzeZ Illustration: Nate Kitch

It can however pursue various forms of legal action against their owners and instruct intelligence services and police to put their structures under surveillance and control measures if deemed a threat to national security. The frameworks of UK and European security states can be draconian if used

Citizen Musk posts a clip of the Prime Minister saying "we are united in calling for calm, and determined to restore order, support the police and all those on the frontline, and ensure that justice is done" endorsing 100% the message that this shows that Keir Starmer "hates white people".