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Duncan Morrow

@duncanmorrow0.bsky.social

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Speaking for myself here-so all the problems are my own. And in my day job, I am Director of Community Engagement and Professor of Politics at Ulster University.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 1d

Yeoo

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That’s 100% tariffs for Norway then… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 2d

The normalisation of intimidation by mob is the story. Frightening because it is meant to be so. Completely unacceptable because civilisation depends on it. Whether directed at politicians, minorities or random targets this needs criminal sanction.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Naomi Long: Justice minister condemns 'mob' outside home

Long's husband, councillor Michael Long, said

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 5d

Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights?

Interesting comments from Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General for England and Wales👇

#ECHR

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 12d

Basically @deptinfra has done nothing to support cycling and walking. Truly shocking NIAO report with huge costs loaded onto health and environmental damage and zero accountability. www.niauditoffice.gov.uk/files/niaudi...

Active travel: Spending in Northern Ireland needs significant increase, says auditor

Departmental analysis states £85m should be spent on active travel per year but current estimates suggest it is spending £50m a year.

www.bbc.co.uk

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 23d

Great launch of our Taking Boys Seriously Art Exhibition in the Great Hall of @UlsterUni in Derry-Londonderry this morning. Perspectives,Voices and Images to be displayed to the public in the Train Station.

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 23d

Students moving in: stocking up for a long winter at the cash and carry open night!

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 23d

One small step for Hill Street: maybe a giant leap for Belfast? Good News at last.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hill Street: Pedestrianisation to happen later this year

The infrastructure minister says an informal consultation with businesses

www.bbc.co.uk

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Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Rosemary A. Joyce, Duncan Morrow

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 29d

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 29d

If Americans won’t or can’t limit gun ownership when their children are being killed and there is a universal sense of tragedy, why would they limit guns when the targets are political and contentious figures? This is existential.

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Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Dave Elder‐Vass , and 1 more Stephan Lewandowsky, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Dave Elder‐Vass, Duncan Morrow

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Daniela Gabor, Joe R. Feagin, Steve Peers , and 12 more Daniela Gabor, Joe R. Feagin, Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller, Julia Lynch, Andrew L. Whitehead, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Klaus Oschema, Christina Pagel, Duncan Morrow, Colin Woodard, David R. Shumway, Dunlap, Southern Africa

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · Sep 11

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Sep 2

Everybody in NI politics needs to make clear that violence against people of colour is incompatible with civilisation let alone culture and everybody in a church should be repeating that it is incompatible with Christianity. Violence should be a red line.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ballymena: Landlord says 'lives in danger' after racially-motivated attack

Six vehicles were burnt and destroyed outside a house where Filipino workers live.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Sep 2

The predators alliance. A view from Paris.

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 30

Farming in NI is going to have you change fast. What has happened to Lough Neagh - and the refusal you prioritise doing anything about it by DUP and SF Ministers- is an inter- generational scandal.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall

Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet

www.theguardian.com

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 26

Farage can explode or dump the GFA-seems rash. He can also drive a new majority in Northern Ireland for a United Ireland- maybe what he wants? Or he can turn the Irish Sea border into a trench- harder to sell. But he cannot negotiate human rights out of law making or policing- nobody to talk to.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 26

It is unfathomable to me that western politicians have not found a way to distinguish the cruelty of what is happening in Gaza from self-defence after 2 years. In turning a blind eye to killing on this scale, every tyrant in the future has a new precedent- and international law appears impotent.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 6

After Hiroshima, the only way to stop escalation to the extremes is to find ways to escape our conflicts before they escalate to the extremes. Otherwise, ‘doing what it takes’ means justifying mass slaughter as ‘collateral’ to a higher end

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 6

80 years today since the world lost its innocence about the potential for human beings to destroy all human life.

news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...

BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Aug 2

So, it can be done. No traffic-related deaths in a year in a city of 700,000.

www.politico.eu/article/hels...

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

www.politico.eu

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jul 25

Torture is playing out in front of our eyes in real time. We cannot avert our eyes or pretend we didn’t see. I feel like a complicit bystander every day now. Surely no security rationale justifies this? For the sake of all our futures , we need action not words now.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost a third of people in Gaza 'not eating for days,' UN warns

Israel faces increasing pressure from Western allies to lift restrictions into the flow of aid into Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jul 21

The failure to stop the starvation of Gaza is one of the disasters of our time. On top of the appalling civilian suffering, the collapse of any reality to the concept of an ‘international community’ will haunt us for years. And Israel’s isolation will deepen.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jul 12

Build it and they will come.

Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · Jul 12

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping.
A visionary urban policy lead by @annehidalgo.bsky.social 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻
momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping

The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets

momentummag.com

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Reposted by Heike Delitz, Björn Heile, Duncan Morrow

Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · Jul 12

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stopping

The report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets

momentummag.com

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hard to think of a more diabolical image. We are losing a grip on our humanity.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jul 2

Turner skies not sweltering heat in Belfast tonight

Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jun 23

The failure of a government Department to pay attention to its own laws and rules once is unfortunate, the failure to do it time and time again is careless.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Judge quashes decision by NI Executive to upgrade A5 road

An Executive decision to proceed with the A5 road upgrade has been quashed at the High Court in Belfast.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jun 19

Getting to the shocking human, social and economic cost of racially-motivated violence in NI at today’s seminar on ‘Planning our way out of Division’ @ulsteruni.bsky.social Despair and determination.

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jun 18

Not normally in the Taliban about these issues- but this is a crime against the apostrophe…

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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · Jun 16

This is a problem of adult origin: some of us are giving children the idea that attacking their peers is is acceptable behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NI riots: Ballymena school absence rates spike in the wake of violence

Paul Givan says there are cases where some children taking part in the riots in Ballymena attacked the homes of classmates.

www.bbc.co.uk

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