Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. I also chair Unhack Democracy, write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy mainly at TVP World and do green libertarianism with epicenternetwork.eu
My substack: garvanwalshe.org
Garvan Walshe
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Ah the old one man’s immigration is another man’s plantation.
Starmer wasn’t going to survive anyway and Healy gets to resign early on (a sound) principle.
Garvan Walshe
Garvan Walshe
Really? That is your view? Really?
We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.
My statement on recent events in Belfast.
SpinningHugo
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
NEW: John Healey quits over defence funding. Devastating letter for the government and Keir Starmer: “You have been unable and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
Lewis Goodall
Ireland never had an empire, but if we did…
This article compared market exchange rates rather than living standards. Elementary economics teaches this is wrong.
Male life expectancy in MI is 67. In the UK it’s 78. For women the figures are 74 and 83.
And the centre right’s cowardice in defending decency & order.
We’ve had Southport, Southampton and now Belfast: three mobs stirred up in public.
Just as Islamist extremists fed off an ideology that excused violence so do the racist right.
It falls to the centre right to challenge & defeat it.
On the money
Garvan Walshe
Garvan Walshe
Garvan Walshe
Garvan Walshe
one of the undesirable results of the GFA has been the cutting of rather a lot of slack for residual terrorist organisations to engage in "community activism" i.e. crime. And last night was one of the consequences
A generation ago, Britain was a global power—today, its output is barely above that of America’s poorest state, @imkahloon reports. He traveled to the nation to explore what happened: theatln.tc/6uhyqJtk
This is very good, because it puts the blame not just on Farage/Lowe, but on most/much of the "British right" in politics and media (as well as the PM's inaction/acquiescence)
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Amid riots in Belfast, Restore promises to put “murderous third-world savages to death”
Ryanair investigated over charging parents to sit with their children
UK competition watchdog investigates whether charge of about £8 is an unfair contract term under consumer law
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Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, Ryanair, is facing an investigation over the mandatory fee it charges a parent to sit with their child.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the Irish carrier’s terms and conditions require at least one parent to sit with their children, including those with disabilities, and bills them about £8 per flight to do so. Continue reading...