I grew up in Northern Ireland during the conflict. I was nearly murdered once and hospitalised twice. I covered the Troubles as a reporter. Be in no doubt: this is frightening & real. Violence in Northern Ireland is of a type that folk in England, Scotland and Wales don’t understand. This scares me.
Read. This. Excellent piece by the brilliant @helenamalikova.bsky.social. Below the surface, invisible to the naked eye, American tech has acquired even more power in Europe than you thought. Europe really, urgently needs to wake up.
Russia is openly waging a form of hybrid warfare against us and this is part of it.
Driven by Musk, fuelled by Restore Leader Rupert Lowe and whipped up by the fear mongering rhetoric of Reform and their media outlets.
This is what happens when you stir hatred against migrants.
It end with burning homes and cars and children fleeing for their lives
Your reminder that this is supposed to be the good guy of British centrism, the one who’s our last chance of defeating the far right
Neil Mackay
Sophie in't Veld
Duncan Weldon
And it'll be the same for our politicians.
Big thanks to the DUP, Reform, Tories etc for stirring this up all day. Thugs are now attacking people's homes in Belfast, wrecking hostels, checking cars at roadblocks for 'immigrants', burning vehicles and generally scaring the shit out of people. Hope you're all proud of yourselves.
#Belfast
Russia is simultaneously:
- hosting Candace Owens in St. Petersburg
- doing its best to stoke racial tension in the West
- advertising in Africa along the lines of "come to work in Russia, we have busty blonde Slavic girls here for you"
- sending Africans who fall for that to their death in Ukraine
And yet papers like the Irish Independent will continue to platform him #speirgorm
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
