@j-blean.bsky.social
Agree 100% with Aaron Vennard. I've been asking public reps about electrification of NIR for over 30 years. Where is the urgency? Timeframe? A political decision is made - more votes in roads it seems... www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Rail campaigners say new £4.5bn expansion plans are ‘simply too slow’
Campaigners have branded plans to restore rail links to Derry and Armagh and build a connection to Belfast International Airport as “simply too slow” amid fears that delays could cause the costs to sp...
www.irishnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Agree 100% with Aaron Vennard. I've been asking public reps about electrification of NIR for over 30 years. Where is the urgency? Timeframe? A political decision is made - more votes in roads it seems... www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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12 million displaced. 150,000 dead. But sure, let’s keep pretending war is “bringing stability.” Our #HandsOffSudan webinar features people actually doing the work for peace. Join us!
Webinar: Campaign to Stop the War in Sudan: Where Do We Stand? - World BEYOND War
World BEYOND War, through its Senegal chapter, launched the #HandsOffSudan campaign to call for a return to peace. #WorldBEYONDWar
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
12 million displaced. 150,000 dead. But sure, let’s keep pretending war is “bringing stability.” Our #HandsOffSudan webinar features people actually doing the work for peace. Join us!
FIFA Rankings: Brazil 5th
Morocco 11th
Haiti 84th
Scotland 36th
Morocco 11th
Haiti 84th
Scotland 36th
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
FIFA Rankings: Brazil 5th
Morocco 11th
Haiti 84th
Scotland 36th
Morocco 11th
Haiti 84th
Scotland 36th
Pure dead brilliant. Scotland! Scotland 4 - 2 Denmark North America here we come!!⚽️⚽️⚽️
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Pure dead brilliant. Scotland! Scotland 4 - 2 Denmark North America here we come!!⚽️⚽️⚽️
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A little bit of context always helps. When it's omitted you know someone has an agenda.
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A little bit of context always helps. When it's omitted you know someone has an agenda.
Utterly disgraceful. Nothing Christian about hating your neighbour like this. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Watch: Speaker at anti-migrant protest in Belfast chants ‘F**k Islam’
A woman in her 50s has been questioned after an anti-Islam chant at a far-right ‘Pink Ladies’ protest at Belfast City Hall led the crowd in anti-Islam chants.
www.irishnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Utterly disgraceful. Nothing Christian about hating your neighbour like this. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
@bsky.app If you're in London this weekend you may be interested in this event featuring former NI Assembly Speaker Lord Alderdice: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maws-2025-...
MAW’s 2025 Remembrance Lecture "Ending Wars"
Lord John Alderdice - from the current worldwide crises, can a new approach can be
fashioned to deal with our deepest differences?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@bsky.app If you're in London this weekend you may be interested in this event featuring former NI Assembly Speaker Lord Alderdice: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maws-2025-...
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There is no ‘ceasefire’ in the Gaza Strip – Israel is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
The UK must hold Israel to account – rather than continuing to arm and trade with it as normal.
Demand action from the UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/...
The UK must hold Israel to account – rather than continuing to arm and trade with it as normal.
Demand action from the UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/...
The UK must hold Israel to the ceasefire
Israel is continuing its genocide - we must take action.
secure.waronwant.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There is no ‘ceasefire’ in the Gaza Strip – Israel is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people.
The UK must hold Israel to account – rather than continuing to arm and trade with it as normal.
Demand action from the UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/...
The UK must hold Israel to account – rather than continuing to arm and trade with it as normal.
Demand action from the UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/...
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Hey Keir Starmer, get the memo?
We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans!
People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.
We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans!
People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Hey Keir Starmer, get the memo?
We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans!
People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.
We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans!
People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.
..storing up incalculable future pain - Sam McBride on the taxpayer's bill for Emma Brady, failed civil servant, rising to £275k per year & his question on who approved her payrise in the Executive having to be repeated three times before a response was received. What an outrageous shambles.2/2
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
..storing up incalculable future pain - Sam McBride on the taxpayer's bill for Emma Brady, failed civil servant, rising to £275k per year & his question on who approved her payrise in the Executive having to be repeated three times before a response was received. What an outrageous shambles.2/2
Ministers deserve – & we give them – the greatest scrutiny. But senior officials who are paid far more than ministers also deserve scrutiny. I fear that this Stormont is just getting more skilled in hiding how bad things really are. What might be expedient in the short term for some people is...1/2
September 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ministers deserve – & we give them – the greatest scrutiny. But senior officials who are paid far more than ministers also deserve scrutiny. I fear that this Stormont is just getting more skilled in hiding how bad things really are. What might be expedient in the short term for some people is...1/2
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It’s time to invest in communities and social homes, not private pockets.
The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions.
But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.
The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions.
But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.
July 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
It’s time to invest in communities and social homes, not private pockets.
The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions.
But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.
The government is handing money to companies that make huge profits from housing people seeking safety in appalling conditions.
But this could be used to fund a joined-up, local approach to housing people seeking safety.
"According to the Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed at least 113 civil defense responders, around 228 journalists, and at least 1,411 medical workers since October 7, 2023.
Here are their stories" theintercept.com/2025/07/07/i...
Here are their stories" theintercept.com/2025/07/07/i...
When Israel Attacks Gaza, These People Run to Save Lives
A civil defense worker, a doctor, a reporter, and a photojournalist tell The Intercept their stories of responding to Israel’s war on Gaza.
theintercept.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"According to the Health Ministry, the Israeli military has killed at least 113 civil defense responders, around 228 journalists, and at least 1,411 medical workers since October 7, 2023.
Here are their stories" theintercept.com/2025/07/07/i...
Here are their stories" theintercept.com/2025/07/07/i...
Is there any other capital city of a country or region anywhere else in the world where that country's major public holiday would involve placing a massive bonfire next to the power substation for its main hospitals? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bonfire: Pre-action legal proceedings after fears of hospital power cuts
The bonfire has been built near a major electricity substation between the Donegall Road and the Westlink.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Is there any other capital city of a country or region anywhere else in the world where that country's major public holiday would involve placing a massive bonfire next to the power substation for its main hospitals? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The government's annual report card is in...
And they won’t be top of the class this year.
❌Work ban still in place
🤞Promising changes in asylum housing
🟡Rwanda scrapped, but hostile policies remain
❌Same scapegoating tactics
One good mark doesn’t fix a failing report.
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And they won’t be top of the class this year.
❌Work ban still in place
🤞Promising changes in asylum housing
🟡Rwanda scrapped, but hostile policies remain
❌Same scapegoating tactics
One good mark doesn’t fix a failing report.
↻ Repost if you agree.
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The government's annual report card is in...
And they won’t be top of the class this year.
❌Work ban still in place
🤞Promising changes in asylum housing
🟡Rwanda scrapped, but hostile policies remain
❌Same scapegoating tactics
One good mark doesn’t fix a failing report.
↻ Repost if you agree.
And they won’t be top of the class this year.
❌Work ban still in place
🤞Promising changes in asylum housing
🟡Rwanda scrapped, but hostile policies remain
❌Same scapegoating tactics
One good mark doesn’t fix a failing report.
↻ Repost if you agree.
22/36 of Labour's manifesto pledges on track/already delivered. 4 pledges off-track/not delivered; re: the other 10 it's not possible to know = 61%, a university pass but professional fail(70% needed)...https://www.channel4.com/news/has-starmer-kept-his-election-promises-labours-first-year-explained
July 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
22/36 of Labour's manifesto pledges on track/already delivered. 4 pledges off-track/not delivered; re: the other 10 it's not possible to know = 61%, a university pass but professional fail(70% needed)...https://www.channel4.com/news/has-starmer-kept-his-election-promises-labours-first-year-explained
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The right to refuse to kill is under attack. EBCO’s new report shows how states across Europe—especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Türkiye, and Greece—are criminalizing conscience. Objecting to war is not a crime. It’s a human right!
EBCO new Annual Report on Conscientious Objection in Europe 2024: A Call to Safeguard the Right to Refuse to Kill and Resist Wars - World BEYOND War
A Call to Safeguard the Right to Refuse to Kill and Resist Wars. #WorldBEYONDWar
buff.ly
June 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right to refuse to kill is under attack. EBCO’s new report shows how states across Europe—especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Türkiye, and Greece—are criminalizing conscience. Objecting to war is not a crime. It’s a human right!
"Not that it matters, but none of the families targeted by thugs in recent days were illegal immigrants. They were all people who are legally in Northern Ireland, working and contributing to society." www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
Want evidence this is all just racism? Look at the Belfast killing of a woman who didn't get any 'legitimate concerns'
The violence seen over the last week, as anti-immigrant unrest gripped towns and men in balaclavas roamed the streets, is on a level similar to those long, hot summers of 10 or so years ago.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"Not that it matters, but none of the families targeted by thugs in recent days were illegal immigrants. They were all people who are legally in Northern Ireland, working and contributing to society." www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
"Why were the PSNI working with a UVF commander to end rioting which it claimed wasn't run by the UVF?" Pertinent question as ever from Sam. Republicans can be racist also but the problem is more apparent in loyalist areas. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
State funding has become a perverse incentive to riot
There is a darkness at the heart of Northern Ireland which appears impervious to the light of progress.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Why were the PSNI working with a UVF commander to end rioting which it claimed wasn't run by the UVF?" Pertinent question as ever from Sam. Republicans can be racist also but the problem is more apparent in loyalist areas. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
The evidence is clear for all who care to look at it: arms races, whether nuclear or conventional make us all less safe, not more www.ppu.org.uk/news/ten-rea...
Ten reasons why the UK should not increase military spending
Keir Starmer has pledged to increase the UK’s military budget to 2.5% of GDP by 2027.
www.ppu.org.uk
June 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The evidence is clear for all who care to look at it: arms races, whether nuclear or conventional make us all less safe, not more www.ppu.org.uk/news/ten-rea...
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UVF boss Winston Irvine was brought to Kabul to advise “key decision-makers” in Afghanistan’s government on how to address victims’ issues as part of a deal with the Taliban - and 15 other times the terrorist worked with government authorities unseen.
UVF boss Irvine was brought to Kabul to advise top Afghan figures on victims issues
UVF commander Winston Irvine was involved in advising “key decision-makers” in Afghanistan’s government on how to address victims’ issues as part of a deal with the Taliban, it can be revealed.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
UVF boss Winston Irvine was brought to Kabul to advise “key decision-makers” in Afghanistan’s government on how to address victims’ issues as part of a deal with the Taliban - and 15 other times the terrorist worked with government authorities unseen.
I used to regularly walk past the peacewall near these houses when at school. Appalling/unacceptable these attacks still happening 40 years later. Agencies must work together to stop this & apprehend those responsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North Belfast: Residents 'shouldn't have to leave homes' after sectarian attacks
Police are appealing for information after a number of homes were damaged in north Belfast on Wednesday in what is being treated as a sectarian-motivated attack.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I used to regularly walk past the peacewall near these houses when at school. Appalling/unacceptable these attacks still happening 40 years later. Agencies must work together to stop this & apprehend those responsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...