From the sentencing remarks of a High Court Judge in Belfast not even a week ago: “a brutal and frenzied attack that involved the use of a knife”, so complex that state pathology couldn’t determine the fatal sequence. “Almost half of murders in NI recent years have a domestic abuse motivation.”

That horrific incident in North Belfast. 1. For the love of fuck do not share (or watch) the video. Think of the victim and their family. 2. This will be used by some people to justify racist violence, give them no excuse 3. Look after yourself and your friends, especially if they're targeted.

I think I prefer ChatGTP when it flattered the user. This one would chastise you for having an unbalanced judgement on Satan himself.

There’s shameless narcissism on ‘both sides’ of Northern Ireland, but Loyalist Israelism is on another level. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Man pleads guilty to murder of Sarah Montgomery. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“She cared about people and she fought for the rights of others. She had an independence of spirit. The picture is one of a strong, loving, independent young woman. She knew what she wanted from life and she was not inhibited from enjoying her own life on her own terms.“ - Mr Justice Kinney.

A quarter of those arrested for the racist disorder in Belfast in August 2024 have since been reported to the police for domestic abuse. “The myth that violence against women and girls is increasing because of immigration is completely unfounded and does not reflect the experience of Women’s Aid"

Not understanding the complacency around Burnham. However bad the recent history of British PMs has been, nothing came close to Iraq. England will never allow the rulers of their appendages to be anything other than conservative, conformist and imperialist, which is what Labour has always been.

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: strongly collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: strongly cosmopolitan Military: strongly anti-interventionist Authority: leaning libertarian Constitutional: strongly reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

A real Gerard Manley Hopkins Sky tonight. Wow.

Finding it fascinating how the Catholic Church how overtly moving away from middle European provincialism and towards Africa and South America. I wouldn’t be surprised if Asia becomes its next effort of outreach.

But Marge look at Nigel and his hangdog impression, he’s learnt his lesson. Let’s get him a present and support him in his entire political project

Can remember when the left wing mayor of New York said he had no position on a United Ireland, hadn’t even thought about it, and what a great return it was for decades of Sinn Féin courting the $500 dinner plate class.

There’s the nationalist gains, but Reform are a mob of English nationalists, the conservatives are the party of the spiteful old, and Labour got crushed, who are perhaps the last major Unionist party, and even they support the SDLP in Northern Ireland. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politic...

I feel like male violence against women is so acceptable - that a man bombing his partner and himself to death in Bristol isn’t being treated by media, pundits and politicians as being illustrative of a national emergency and an act of terrorism- It absolutely is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never misses a chance to patronise Irish Nationalism, in which the solid rejection of a notion of pure whimsy is taken as evidence of their own immaturity. 50% + 1 is the law. All else is a matter of tactics and strategy. sluggerotoole.com/2026/05/08/t...

Satanic country.

Completely different case, but 2 weeks ago in Belfast a preacher stubbornly and deliberately refused to show courtesy and remain silent for the speakers at a femicide rally. Preacher of what I don’t know,as it sure as hell couldn’t have been New Testament. www.loveballymena.online/post/pastor-...

On a day when all the headlines lead on British values, there's a powerful irony that there is next to no coverage on national BBC news programmes of the Springhill Inquest findings. These values are in short supply when families have to fight for decades for justice: share.google/7TAptGHwQJBV...

Photos from yesterday's "Not One More" rally against Femicide in NI are up nai brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/not-one-more...

Big turnout today for the ROSA NOT ONE MORE rally in Belfast, calling for an end to femicide here. 💜✊🏻 📷 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎

My name is Brendan McNally, and I am the brother of a woman murdered in Northern Ireland. Thank you to Rosa the socialist feminist movement, Unite and all the organisers for giving me the opportunity to speak this afternoon. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

For a poem considered so morally definitive, it’s forgotten that Niemöller never included the victims of the Nazi persecution of Catholics.

Natalie, I love you.

Lovely from Joseph Ratzinger, in German prose, on the Sign of the Cross.

Incredibly powerful front page from the Sunday Post ‘These are the faces of the close to 200 women killed by men in Scotland over the last 16 years. Many were murdered in the one place they should feel completely safe - their own home. Today, we ask for your help in ending misogynistic violence’

For the day that is in it. Happy Valentine’s Day. From Elizabeth Browning.

Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day. Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.

Justice minister says cases like Chloe Mitchell's should not be 'held hostage'. 🙏🙏🙏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I would just reiterate, that it seems unlikely that I, Just A Guy, A Regular Guy, knew more in-depth detail about Peter Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein than the Prime Minister off the United Kingdom who was at the time considering appointing him as Ambassador to the United States.

Not just the arrogance of the Labour oligarchy and their protection and promotion of the charlatan Mandelson, but also the English media that considered it a too impolite matter to pursue until a few days ago is the scandal.

Can remember also this speaker saying “a cloud of gas, meeting another cloud of gas, and exploding” was ridiculous and therefore God exists.

Thinking back to the school I went to, I’m still shocked and disturbed at the type of ‘outside religious group’ we were left exposed to. One speaker called a teacher, checking in on an unsupervised (!) session, satanic, when they left, for interrupting them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s now a clear double standard in official Northern Ireland’s George Best cult, which unfortunately nothing can be done about because of Here reasons. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

International law governing conflict isn’t just “at a breaking point.” It was intentionally destroyed to protect Israel’s war on Gaza.

Happy Candlemas to all who celebrate!

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Remember that Mandelson quote? "We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, as long as they pay their taxes". By "we" he meant the Labour government. Turns out that he - as a government minister - was lobbying on behalf of his filthy rich chums to ensure they paid less tax.

RTE’s These Sacred Vows really went to town on the vulgar, vapid materialist Irish type abroad huh.

Guns N’Roses Knocking on Heavens Door is at least five minutes too long…Basically a bathetic jam session.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

These are concepts that presume that there is some point in which we can sit on judgement on each, when mathematics, physics and the humanities rightly eschew the notion.

Love how haunting this Aeschylus edition is.

The values of the world represented are actually something morally similar pre-democratic Classical Athens, an Aristocratic slave society, so this is good?