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?

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.