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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1h

Oh god the level of abuse levied at councillors alll the time is awful. Don’t know how anyone does it

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2h

Running for president looks truly hellish all the same

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 6h

New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️

open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...

In memory of Manchán Magan

open.spotify.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 6h

It’s also why the “respecting tradition” talk from Heather Humphries sticks in my throat. What traditions of unionism is there to be cherished? Tell me

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 6h

In my parents lives part of the UK was under the rule of a right wing, sectarian leadership that gerrymandered electoral boundaries to fix election, othered a minority, excluded them from jobs, housing & dignity - told them to leave if they didn’t like it. Can see with 20:20 vision what’s happening

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 10h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 8h

Sawing off the tree branch they’re standing on. Zero excuse for anyone going for it after Brexit.

Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 8h

Quite why anyone would want to leave a check on the worst actions of their own government & state forces is just beyond me when both have proved time and time again that they need to be dragged through the courts to be truthful

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 8h

While the “should we leave the ECHR?” discussion is being soft soaped by the English media, the trail of Soldier F for the murder of innocent men and children is going on over here. The ECHR has forced signatories (cases brought against UK & Turkey) to investigate when its forces use against its own

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 22h

Cancel Couture

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23h

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 1d

More money for greyhound racing than domestic violence in this year's budget. AGAIN

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fantastic- great to read and brilliant coffee table book for people to flick through. Fab Christmas present for anyone

Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

The negotiators of the GFA were so right in weaving the ECHR into the agreement, how easily and glibly our rights, circumstances and lives are written off by the ‘moderate’ commentator class, just as fast as the English electorate. We are just an obstacle to be got around and ignored

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Listening to the latest News Agents podcast and they have an 'expert' on who, if I've heard him right, has said that judges would just continue to follow EHRC laws even if we left and it wouldn't impact the Good Friday Agreement, all based on advice given to Badenoch.

Lol ok.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Stopped listening to that podcast a while ago but listened in on reading this - he acted as a reporter parroting with the tories POV/advice is - zero insight or analysis of if it’s right. Soft soaping the idea as reasonable & arguable. Incredible. From a legal point of view it’s open and shut re GFA

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Loads of the people I grew up with are dead. None of the people my husband grew up with are. It’s horrible when I think of the contest - that those deaths were probably preventable- suicide and drugs mainly

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most marked things about moving from working class to middle class, is how little death there is. It’s so strange to me - so many my age have never
-lost anyone close to them,
-had caring responsibilities for anyone
-experienced the death of a friend or acquaintance their age

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Basic Income for Artists is v obvious to me when I go over the border. I paint, crochet & make hats. Have to drive miles to buy paints & they’re so expensive. Nowhere in newry sells artist materials - you need to feel paper especially to buy it. Art & craft supply shops so plentiful over the border

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a complete farce and it’s not like consumers will even see any of it

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SLATED.ie @slated.bsky.social · 1d

I shall be moaning a lot today. You have been warned.

The VAT rate reduction for hospitality is nonsense.

McDonalds will get a reduced VAT rate whilst we pay 23%.

I repeat 23%.

Nearly a quarter of our product price is VAT.

All SMEs are struggling with costs, not just hospitality.

#SLATED

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

Working in nightclub for 5 years has prepared me for parenthood more than anything else. Particularly comforting very upset tired and worse for wear 19 year olds at 3am (they hated putting on their shoes and coat too and just wanted to eat chips chips)

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

They feel like bots because how are they finding all the Irish electoral posts, but they’re too earnest to be.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2d

‘No job is too big, no pup is too small’ is such a stupid motto

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