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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We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.
My statement on recent events in Belfast.
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.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Garvan Walshe
This is very true. What’s amazing is that traditional media haven’t learned this yet.
Even without Musk tilting the X algorithm social media amplifies the loudest. Now that he does…
Finally the police and intelligence services need the resources to deal with right wing extremism in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Unfortunately they have a lot on their plate - including Russian, Iranian, and Islamist operations, but that’s the world in which we live.
This is sufficiently serious that the Prime Minister needs to address it. He must make clear that incitement and racist violence are unacceptable and will be dealt with using the full force of the law (the law itself is more than adequate - it needs to be enforced.
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Finnish is so hard it counts double.
On the money
Germany founded the EU when part of its territory was occupied.
Ireland and the UK joined while their territory was disputed.
Cyprus joined (but the Greek side shafted the Turkish side in that case because the EU granted accession before they took the peace deal that Turkish Cypriots had accepted)
It’s easy to blame “social media” for the riots in Belfast, and it has its share. But that also means the incitement happened in the open.
Why did the PSNI not act in response to the incitement and deploy to stop the violence breaking out. What can it learn?
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