A familiar face. What is it about these "men of god" that they can't help themselves from assaulting or harassing people?

Why is a local MP backing a man who broke the law, his crime being harassing women lawfully receiving healthcare?

The waiting list has gone up every year, a testament to the inability of our MLAs and parties to do the most basic of their tasks - ensure enough new homes are being built.

Latest Stormont Sources now live! This week we discuss; Is Doug Beattie on the way out the door? What is going wrong south of the border for Sinn Fein? youtu.be/npiAT4fLI4Q?...

Nothing to see here, definitely not ethnic cleansing...

Much will be made in the next few days of ethnic men dancing (peacefully) with ceremonial knives in Whiteabbey yesterday. Those among us with Scottish ancestry, including politicians, shouldn't have a problem with this, assuming of course they're knowledgeable about their own culture.

It's always interesting to note the same parties just ignoring the destruction of local amenities and sites by bonfires every year instead of showing leadership on the issue of the reckless placement.

Getting my popcorn in.

Is it any wonder the UK govt don't want to provide extra funding for NI when they see our MLAs squander money because they can't agree the building blocks of good government. Why would you give people money who won't even stitch the holes up in their own pockets first?

Not commenting about the trial, just posting this interview with a UK based Christian magazine 5 years ago and reading Donaldson's answers.

Another damning report of how our (mostly) incompetent MLAs and parties can't do the very thing they're paid to do, which is set 3 yr budgets to allow recruitment funding and planning. In this case they're costing the health service £37m yr extra just in higher nursing costs.

Great bunch of lads those guys defending our... oh.

what do you think is causing the pessimism you COLOSSAL CUNT

I'm going with bigotry Noel.

The serenity of British politics right now.

I see the Telegraph has stopped asking politicians why they're not ensuring enough new homes are being built and going straight for the far-right click bait.

When in doubt play the populist card. Clueless.

On the left, Dean Portis promoting his good friends Stephen Baker and Robyn Barnes, who have been styling themselves as protectors of women and girls. On the right Dean Portis and the 6 charges he's currently awaiting trial over, including threat to kill, ABH, domestic abuse, common assault.

Just in case you need a reminder why the Newsletter sells less than 7,000 copies a day.

The majority of this article about someone charged with sex offences against a child reads like a CV or eulogy. Surely there's no need, and in fact it's inappropriate, to pad out a story about him being charged with stuff that looks like it's making a case for what a good guy he is?

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

A perfect day to repost this.

So yer man has made a post that explains why he hasn't been allowed to see his kids for 60 days, and it's for exactly the sort of reasons you'd imagine. And of course every post claims he's doing his mad shite to protect *your* children.

Nothing will change until governments start kidnapping Israelis in international waters.

Case to go ahead for Jeffrey next Tuesday.

Our Executive have cost Translink £20m with 5 fare freezes in 10 years, putting them in this position. Meanwhile our Executive presides over huge cost overruns on capital projects and hasn't agreed a budget 5½ months after being presented. Our Assembly is full of incompetent clowns.

The Irish government should send Garda into the embassy in Ballsbridge and start dragging out Israeli staff. Yes, it would be against international law but Israel isn't playing by the rules that everybody else does. And then board up their embassy until they behave.

Not surprising but it may now lead to Jeffrey Donaldson avoiding a criminal conviction. Further update Thursday.

Nothing like a bit of toxic smoke to look forward to at the weekend.

50/50 at best it goes ahead.

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

We've created a huge incubator for deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria but neither SF or DUP will vote for measures to curb it because they both want votes from farmers.

"Addressing the crowd at the event, Robinson said ‘we are here in our millions’ and that attendees were at the ‘biggest event in British history’. But police estimated that just 60,000 turned out, using CCTV and helicopter footage". (Spectator) spectator.com/article/did-...

4% of Labour Party members pick Wes Streeting as their first choice for Labour leader

When you've watched Braveheart too many times...

Free speech? - hmmm selectively. Accountability? - absolutely not.

This was organised and whipped up by Stephen Baker (famous for grifting off every right-wing conspiracy theory) who live-posted outside the library. The report mentions DUP Minister Gordon Lyons, a man whose mouth seems entirely unconnected to his brain.

The journalist has got the story completely wrong, claiming he was banned from entering the UK (impossible). The story is actually that he (very obviously) lied about claiming he was banned. What use is journalism if it allows itself to spread misinformation rather than holding people to account?

Amazing that a local journalist doesn't know this basic and longstanding fact.

Poor journalism, stenographing what this grifter would want them to say without mentioning that he's banned from seeing his own kids, and that there's no evidence of him being a Christian as every post is strewn with expletives and aggression.

There were only 445 new house completions in NI last year. The housing waiting list is 100 times bigger at 50,000. SF & DUP share responsibility for this failure (DUP - Dept for Communities, SF - Dept for Infrastructure).

Any fucker can be a horse-whisperer to this senile c**t. And ⅓ of Americans will still vote him regardless.

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

It'll come as no surprise that Mark Sinclair is widely promoting this misinformation. The school should issue proceedings against him and anyone else spreading misinformation. The headteacher is being deliberately put at risk because he's monetising hate.

Shit's getting real.

And the DUP and TUV can't stop fanboying Reform, make of that what you will. If we had proper local journalists instead of stenographers one of them would have at least made Robinson or Allister uncomfortable about it by now. Don't hold your breath though.

Hold on, "accountable but not responsible" has entered the chat.

Sickened but not surprised. The public has had to drag the government every step of the way on reproductive healthcare and we'll always have to come back fighting many times over simply for humane treatment. Exhaustng and cruel. Keep receipts on all these callous TDs.

Jim Allister using Northern Ireland to have a go at Starmer over getting closer to the EU as if Northern Ireland didn't vote to remain.