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?

During the hearing today Madam Justice McBride said Bracas showed he had a "misogynistic attitude towards women. Domestic violence does not just involve intimate partners but wider family relations. It causes havoc in the family and is a scourge on society. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

Miller Pacheco has been convicted of murdering 28-year-old Bruna Fonseca in Cork in 2023. Pacheco had been in a relationship for five years with Ms Fonseca in their native Brazil, before he followed her to Ireland where she ended the relationship within a week. www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

A 32-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of his former girlfriend by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Cork. www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0122/1554551-miller-pacheco-bruna-fonseca/

We already accept ageism in presidential elections, you can’t run til 35. It’s maybe time to consider an upper limit.

Dead woman's family say barrister strike adding to their trauma www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Things are especially normal at the New Statesman this week, where nobody is suffering some kind of dissociative crisis

Is there anything at all to be said about another transition fund? Just a small one. God I love funding paramilitaries to transition.

Sometimes hearing the denial of paramilitary involvement in the racist violence here makes you doubt the evidence of your own eyes and ears, so having this evidence is invaluable.

Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.

And despised US militarism.

David Moyes I love you!

Don’t expect the expected is the Everton fans motto but that was ridiculous again.

British exceptionalism is the idea that England must have an undivided sovereign, and citizens that are not disloyal to it, and also that America should decide all its major policies in the economy and in military and foreign affairs.

There should be a law against entertaining writers in their ambitions in being feted as TV big shots before their actual work is completed.

While global events are horrifying - the situation at altnagelvin, SWAH and especially Craigavon hospital emergency departments is nothing short of catastrophic and it will never not amaze me that basically nobody cares. It’s described as “the worst it could possibly be” this is a deadly situation

Don’t see the virtue in the obsessive focus on one children’s authors mundane Twitter feed, nor the desire to prove some discontinuity with the type of liberal elitist they are and always were.

Hard to deny Unionism as a whole is just a moribund case. No unifying narrative or agreed coherent principles. Fragments as a solution to crisis. Defensive and plainly irrational when dealing with its rivals and neighbours. sluggerotoole.com/2026/01/08/i...

English Bluesky when you point out the U.K. has provided virtual immunity for the state killing of its own citizens in Ireland since forever.

Excerpt from the Nuremberg judgment…

The Trump administration just reminds me of every insecure, cowardly bully you’ve ever known hoping to lap up the intimidation factor they’ve desperately craved all their lives, and feeling the hollowness of it.

Barristers' strike 'devastating' for crime victims www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yeah, I feel like it might also embolden America, as evidenced by their threats to Mexico, Colombia and Greenland

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

Welcome to the family little Harry Haddock! He enjoyed his first Everton victory last night!

Two deceitful, reactionary politicians who have been divisive with vain faction and the way they have squandered political capital just to assume being another authoritarian conservative government, perhaps?

Nothing says “can’t take it with you” than a tragedy like this a week after near killing an amateur in the ring for lunatic money.

At some point, the Alliance Party will have to be disabused of the notion that political inertia has a presumption of less risk than change, and those who bear that inertia are somehow less responsible for it. sluggerotoole.com/2025/12/24/a...

Unionism is really going to have to manage its minoritisation better than childish cliches about eschatology that ignores what the constitution of Ireland and the GFA actually says about the narrative of Irish Nationalism. thecritic.co.uk/the-reality-...

Treating Ms Rachel as some kind of monster is a truly amazing own goal: it makes it crystal clear to everyone who sees it that there is no form of objection that is acceptable, and the only permissible reactions to the genocide are acceptance, cheerleading or indifference.

The Father Ted Christmas special is actually very poor.

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

My bed for Christmas! 🎅 🎄

Natalie McNally family say murder trial delay warning is 'kick in the teeth' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

America knows what type of human being Trump is, see themselves in him, enjoy him, voted for him in their tens of millions. No one can demur from his claim to be authentic representative of his country. He is what they are.

🧤Jordan Pickford won Premier League Save of the Month for November for his save against Joshua Zirkzee in our 1-0 win against Manchester United at Old Trafford 👏

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more

I’m no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand.

Trying to figure out, after having introduced to his online sycophants his concepts of ‘mild’ rape, child abuse and pedophilla, how rational comparisons when it comes to the relative autonomy of gender roles is beyond him.

With todays news, I express my hope and solidarity with the family of Lisa Dorrian and the PSNI investigators in this case after so many years. 🙏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can‘t get over the feeling that German can express types of thought that are only imperfectly renderable in other languages.

“The model, from which creation will have to be understood, is not the handworker, but the creative spirit, creation in thought. At the same time, creative freedom is the recognisable sign of the Christian belief in God in contrast to each type of monism. 1/4 🧵

In common with the type of peasant revolt throughout all human history, and those outside city hall protesting, the absolute worst thing here that can be said against it is that it involves us in something ‘too complicated’.