So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
New Gist: Humpty Dumpty’s Wall of Biometric Bamboozlement
Jim O'Callaghan is bringing in a Bill giving AI powers to the police, 'irrespective' of EU Law.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-hum...
Richie on the ball
We've two places left on this excellent training in Ennis with Dr Conor McCabe. It's on Friday evening 6 - 8.30 and then on Saturday from 10 to 5.30. Conor is brilliant and will be taking people on a whistle stop tour through political economy and the Irish state. email [email protected]
Daniel Trilling
Cartoon against Children going to Liverpool during the 1913 Lockout.
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The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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From a friend in Belfast.
The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting.
(Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...)
#Speirgorm
Northern Ireland is considered one of the most dangerous regions in Europe for women.
The ones getting all fizzed up about the North Belfast stabbing never question the culture here that they want people to assimilate to
www.ulster.ac.uk/research/res...
Sarah Clancy
Alan Kinsella
Alan Kinsella
Just wrote this for the @theguardian.com about the ongoing war between Reform and Restore and the increasing racialisation of our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Based on responses from more than 540 women, the report also found seven out of 10 experienced some form of violence or abuse in the last 12 months.
After the conviction of Henry Nowak’s killer, the right is embracing racialised language. This tragedy is now just part of a political tussle, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate
Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has said "it's nice to finally win an award in England" after her record Euro-Country was named Best Album at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards in London.
Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has said "it's nice to finally win an award in England" after her record Euro-Country was named Best Album at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards in London.
