My great uncle Cyril signed up underage in WWII. When he was 17, his ship was sunk mid-Atlantic, and he clung to debris for 14 hours overnight. He was one of only a handful of survivors I think about that when I read this account of the US sinking the Iranian vessel thewalrus.ca/the-us-torpe...

"The notion that violence against women is the result of individual 'exceptions' is not only disproved by data — it serves to deny the scale of a pervasive issue, which cannot be explained away as a few bad apples." www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/were...

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

The speech - now posted on the university’s website - is worth reading in full: www.bg.ac.rs/speech-of-th...

I was on holiday in Belgrade last week and accidentally found myself at a huge student-led protest after the police - seemingly on government orders - entered the university (on flimsy pretenses) to search computers and offices. #thread

2 planes, 1 day U.S. loses F-15 and A-10 Warthog after Trump crows that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100 percent annihilated" theintercept.com/2026/04/03/i...

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Hannity and Lindsey Graham are straight up cheerleading war crimes against the civilian population of Iran

Comhghairdeas Colin agus Linda! And great to see QUB represented on the Council of State. belfastmedia.com/linda-ervine...

No Kings protest sign for Commander Bone Spurs.

This was a fantastic project to be part of and the book a pleasure to help edit with @michaelpierse.bsky.social & @ionaburnellreilly.bsky.social. I'll say more about it soon. For now, working with and meeting contributors, and being given an insight into their rich and varied lives was a privilege.

1. bilingual signage'd be lawful since Irish is an official language of Northern Ireland, 2. countries around the world have such policies to save minority languages. 3. there is no right to be outraged to undermine others'. 4. 5K QUB student votes=exceptional. www.newsletter.co.uk/education/fo...

Horrific attack on four ambulances at a Jewish community charity in north London Keir Starmer, "Antisemitism has no place in our society and it's really important that we all stand together" Absolutely agree. This is appalling. Standing in solidarity with the Jewish community 🙏

Counter-terror police investigating London arson attack on Jewish charity’s ambulances

Today is a dark day for London. An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on us all. Decent Londoners of all faiths and none will reject those who seek to pit us against one another.

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

What future for children? 4.5m UK children live in poverty. 5 year olds are 7cm shorter than their European peers. Rickets/Scurvy have returned. Tories want to reimpose the two-child benefit cap, condemn 450,000 children to poverty. Reform wants to do the same to cut price of a pint of beer.

"Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions." - TRT World www.trtworld.com/article/3468...

Kneecap arrive in Cuba to ‘shine a light’ on ‘collective punishment’ by US

Such an impressive Mayor.

"Mounting evidence that US missile struck Iran school, but Trump says he’ll 'live with' findings." Barbaric. jrnl.ie/6980156

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Notions: the Lives of Irish Working-Class Academics, edited by Iona Burnell Reilly, Stephen Baker and yours truly, will be published in May: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Iona...

#OtD 5 Mar 1943 a strike broke out at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. The strike spread and, within a week, 100k workers were out. Authorities arrested 850 workers but were forced to concede. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

This takes courage.

Colour me shocked, wonder what state that specialises in genocide, colonial land theft & complex spook operations could POSSIBLY be involved in launching these attacks? It Is a Real mystery alright.

New level of performative depravity unlocked

The Iran chaos distracts from trump's failures at home. Rising prices. ICE’s violence toward US citizens. Epstein files. Americans want safety and justice. They want to be able to pay their bills. Instead, they’re getting cover-ups, corruption, and chaos. open.substack.com/pub/senatorh...

It’s astonishing how British newspapers and Tory and Reform politicians line up behind a clearly demented American president to attack the British Prime Minister. I’m an Irishman and have no dog in the fight, but it’s really weird (treacherous?) to constantly back a foreign country ahead of your own

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law. But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

What a beautiful day on campus for a trial run of our new flags! 😍🌸🌞 #WeAreTheUniversity

Propaganda works by repeating lies. 'Defensive' is the operative lie here. I feel ashamed to be British. 🇮🇷🇵🇸🇾🇪🇱🇧 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s defensive when we do it, but offensive when they do it.

Trump has undermined NATO, ripped up treaties and laws. He has threatened Iran, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Panama and Cuba. He’s illegally removed the leaders of 2 sovereign states. We need to fully comprehend what a world with no respect for sovereignty means. No one is unaffected by this

"Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton" says London Mayor Sadiq Khan Khan now publicly going against comments by Mahmood and others in the Labour party as they continue to pander to the right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths jrnl.ie/6967411

Irish News: RTÉ journalist Vincent Kearney spied on by PSNI, MI5 and Met Police over eight years www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Armed police flood Iran’s universities to crush student protests

Record number of journalists killed last year, with Israel responsible for two-thirds of the deaths jrnl.ie/6967411

A sworn FBI tip alleges Donald Donald Trump threatened to “disappear” a girl and have her family killed—testimony given under penalty of perjury, not a tweet. Democracy demands scrutiny of power; silence protects predators. Law, not intimidation, must rule. #EpsteinFiles #AccountabilityNow

Wouldn't it be wonderful, if this was the beginning of the end of the monarchy? #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein #AndrewTheNonce #Mountbatten #EpsteinFiles

We have new totals, folks #EpsteinFiles

Konaté maybe the unsung hero tonight. #LivNew