Four year old explaining that her aunty is “in charge of coughs” is the most succinct summary of her job as a respiratory consultant I can think of. If I sat for hours I’d not come up with it

A great alternative to Amazon.

Was in Belfast yesterday and heard “boogaloo” used no less than four times from three separate people.

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

My childcare would be hundreds less if I lived in England but I pay the same tax rates. But yeah, productivity is low here because people are lazy

The dispute here is that OP is framing cooking as something that isn't work, when in fact reproductive labour very much is work, even if you don't get paid for it and it is performed by a woman.

Seems to be a controversial take that a bunch of Arnotts security guards shouldn’t be able to execute you in the street for potential shoplifting

My prediction is that the EU will do nothing

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

English nationalists are copy and paste Loyalists. I can see no difference in the rhetoric, paranoia, its core defining hatred of ‘other’ and anger. England is now getting a taste of what its rulers spent decades curating and then ignoring.

My daughter now makes me play Riverdance on repeat the whole way to crèche - I’m not a morning person at all, I’ve tried to be alert in the mornings for years to no avail, but this might just be the cure for it. It’s some hype music alright

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.

Diane Dodds of DUP talking on BBC Radio Ulster about the number of people in NI on antidepressants - 26% of people. Reminder that the DUP do everything in their power to make Northern Ireland absolutely grim for whole swathes of the population through legislation, policy, repression and economics.

It's neither. The reason that local government cannot do the basics is a simple, but painful and politically difficult problem: getting social care costs off the back of local government. And we all, frankly know what the four solutions to the social care problem are, they're just hard.

I just want to dry some damn clothes. ITS MAY

BBC covering Ebola in Congo and Rwanda but mentioning nothing about this.. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Tuam should be the focus of anyone worried about religious overreach into people’s lives, not ‘Sharia law’. What a ghoul

I also love that Bertie is worried about Sharia Law when Ireland had women & kids tossed into the Church ran Laundries for slave labour & sexual abuse for "being sinful"- and he was in favour of having Church records sealed so as to protect religious orders from consequences.

When you think of the 🍞 🧈 issues facing Irish people in their lives, and the possibilities a single state island could bring.... taking Irish speakers down a peg shouldn't be high on anyone's list of priorities. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Politicians and media love to throw their hands up and despair that things can’t be done because the public feel some sort of way about it. But to me, Brexit is an example of politicians & media setting the agenda of public concern over an issue they did not care about before it was put to them

During Repeal canvassing, I personally found the 3 day wait time etc didn’t come up as being a reason people voted yes. It was a vote for autonomy, genuinely. The demographic this is supposed to appeal to wouldn’t ever vote for abortion provision no matter way “safeguards” are put in

Least you know where you stand with Aontú (as a foot passenger on the boat to England)

The bill has been defeated, by 85 votes to 30. Only three government TDs voted in favour, despite having a free vote, with Sinn Féin abstaining.

Nial Ring on Morning Ireland saying that we are all to let Bertie say whatever he wants because he brought peace to the North. I'm so shit sick of that line. It was trotted out about Mandelson for months. Immigrants didn't wreck Ireland's economy, Bertie did. Stop with the great peacemaker guff.

Well well well, the great hero of policing who threatened to sue a politician (Nuala McAllister, who deserves a full apology) and the BBC calling a predator and killer a 'bad boy' and saying of Katie Simpson "she died of pneumonia and not blood loss from being kicked in the vagina".

Bertie Ahern’s govt successfully championed an amendment to remove Irish birthright citizenship, with a campaign that fear-mongered about “African anchor babies”. So his recent comments are hardly out of left field. Classic FF blowing with the wind to chase power more than ideological racism imo.

Trickier for SF is their voter base ranges from anti-immigrant lorry protestors to twitter communists.

This is one of the worst things about modern politics coverage. Treating the audience like they’re idiots incapable of understanding anything - which is quite often being used to conceal the fact that the person speaking does in fact not understand what they’re talking about!

Looking north won’t break your neck and if more people did it they’d be less surprised about the actions of all island parties

It’s mortifying to be scrambling to fill a bookstore event but that’s the reality. I’m in Scotland and England next week. There are tix left for these events. The London one will be cancelled if I don’t sell some tickets soon so all pre-bookings and help with getting the word out is appreciated.

I think of Gordon Brown’s “that bigoted woman” apology that should never have been

English people over 60 went mad, having been coddled and still being so. We have to pander to their often not-very-hateful but utterly destructive racism and awful entitlement. No-one wins. No one can direct it. Some take advantage for a bit like Gove and Johnson. It's really easy to understand.

This is why I dont see a way forward. I’ve read and listened to loads of analysis of the recent elections. I struggle to see what policies would appease an electorate who say “I hate Kier Starmer so I’m voting Reform but it would be different if it was Andy Burnham” England seems ungovernable

This is false. Every other week was “you can have no border, a border in the Irish Sea, or a border on the island of Ireland. Please pick one”.

Demolishing the Bot to put up more expensive student housing is very very symbolic of what Belfast and University is now. When I studied there rent was cheap, so a a great social life for someone from a very working class background was entirely possible. A youth is being stripped from the young

Really hoping for once that this is written by AI. Prompt “write me a resignation letter but make it seem like it’s somehow staccato”

The level of abuse directed at women of colour in the Irish public sphere is eye-watering. I hope the organisers are giving her every support, and seeking external advice as needed.

Nobody could ever say Peadar Tóibín isn’t great at raising his media profile well above his electoral success. He’s really good at taking about the non core issues that he set up his party on. ATM he’s on Radio Ulster v sensibly talking about character references for sentencing. He’s v good at it

Doug Beattie facing de-selection for being *too moderate* and England continues to try and have a new Prime Minister for every season like a fast fashion outlet. I wouldn’t wish being from here on anyone

It's very, very hard to read something like this and not conclude that the Department of Justice are deliberately mismanaging this in order to make the process as miserable and disruptive for everyone

Current reading hyper fixation is WWI soldiers experiences. My god those poor men.

Joanne Shaw was murdered by her ex-partner. There, fixed it for you BBC. Yet another murder of a woman by a partner or ex-partner. Another grim statistic for @CountDeadWomen over on Twitter/X.

The media’s obsession with bike shed costs has given racists a handy example to talk about what they say is the government wasting money, when what they really want to say is that any money spent on refugees is the real waste. It also helps de- normalise spending money on cycling & cycling itself

This is how the BBC covered it. Now imagine he was stabbing *insert other minorities group* because he was taking his hatred of that group out on strangers.

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

The way that these types of incidents are constantly framed as apolitical is why, 5 years after a man attacked 6 women, stabbing them as he cycled past them in Belfast, mentioning this is met with blank looks from legislators, while you can be sure they would remember if it was labelled properly.

Please can media get their act together reporting the man who deliberately killed a young woman Joanne Shaw in Bristol with an explosive device. Shaw managed to save her child, getting them to safety. The way it's being reported is as if she accidentally dug up an old WWII bomb in the garden.

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...

My overwhelming feeling reading the attempts to analyse England & Wales election results is just ‘get me away from about this MY FKN GOD’ Like being tied in a 3 legged race to Homer Simpson as he continues to eat his ever more decaying sandwich. I don’t care why they yearn for facism - get me away