Peter McGuire
@petermcguire.bsky.social
Semi-retired journalist. Now mostly comms, copywriting & content design. Former bylines include
@irishtimes
@TJ_investigates
He/ him 🏳️🌈
@irishtimes
@TJ_investigates
He/ him 🏳️🌈
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Alan carr
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media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Alan carr
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Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors
Very glad at a traitor win. Once Joe was gone, it just had to be Alan Carr. Particularly glad David didn’t win - he’s sound & smart but he stumbled his win to the endgame #CelebrityTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Very glad at a traitor win. Once Joe was gone, it just had to be Alan Carr. Particularly glad David didn’t win - he’s sound & smart but he stumbled his win to the endgame #CelebrityTraitors
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he literally did the meme
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
he literally did the meme
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This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.
Yeah, I'm sorry but the idea that being a racist cunt is a protected characteristic now is extremely clearly not the intent of the law and it's ridiculous to pretend it is.
The District Judge doesn't consider each of the 5 limbs of Grainger, neither does he set out what Tommy Robinson said his beliefs were. How does this lead to a conclusion of Robinson having a protected belief?
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.
If you work in media & didn’t know that Ivan Yates was deeply compromised, you’re too naive for this industry. And if you did know, well… remind me again, why have people stopped buying papers or trusting legacy media?
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Ivan Yates used his media training company to also lobby both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs – including junior minister Niall Collins – in hotel meetings on behalf of an energy company that wanted advice on getting “a favourable planning decision”.
www.ontheditch.com/ivan-yates-l...
www.ontheditch.com/ivan-yates-l...
Yates lobbied government TDs, minister for energy firm
Ivan Yates used his media training company to also lobby both Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs.
www.ontheditch.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you work in media & didn’t know that Ivan Yates was deeply compromised, you’re too naive for this industry. And if you did know, well… remind me again, why have people stopped buying papers or trusting legacy media?
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
Meanwhile, broadcast media: stop with the same old stale, compromised voices.
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April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
November: Housing crisis here until 2040.
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The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
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Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
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My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My last thought on the presidential elections is that we had to suffer through every stray thought that passed through Ivan Yates' brain, amplified by the media, without him ever saying he was being paid by one side, but it was only after the election that I read a 'who is Béibhinn O'Connor?' piece.
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What I find least credible in this Ivan Yates saga
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What I find least credible in this Ivan Yates saga
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
Is that anyone (i.e. Cooper) really thought that maybe Yates was not an agent of professional or ethical integrity
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to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
to be on air, discussing the presidential election, making wild and bullish statements about what candidates should do, while omitting the fact that you’re literally working for a campaign… it’s just not very good behaviour is it. doesn’t suggest good character, does it.
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it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Add Emu to this line-up, make him a traitor and watch as he only engages in the game by physically attacking the other puppets
BREAKING: BBC announces CELEBRITY PUPPET TRAITORS for 2026. Claudia Winkleman will host but never acknowledge that everyone else is a puppet. #celebritytraitors
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Add Emu to this line-up, make him a traitor and watch as he only engages in the game by physically attacking the other puppets
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The Prince Andrew thing makes the British press vilification of Prince Harry look a bit pathetic, doesn’t it?
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Prince Andrew thing makes the British press vilification of Prince Harry look a bit pathetic, doesn’t it?
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Someone needs to ask Trump if they’re being “fair” to former Prince Andrew.
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Someone needs to ask Trump if they’re being “fair” to former Prince Andrew.
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Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.
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Day 71 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Day 71 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo
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Andrew to lose 'prince' title
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Andrew to lose 'prince' title
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Well done killing Celia, Alan, hope you never want to go in a gay bar again #CelebrityTraitors
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Well done killing Celia, Alan, hope you never want to go in a gay bar again #CelebrityTraitors
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BREAKING: BBC announces CELEBRITY PUPPET TRAITORS for 2026. Claudia Winkleman will host but never acknowledge that everyone else is a puppet. #celebritytraitors
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
BREAKING: BBC announces CELEBRITY PUPPET TRAITORS for 2026. Claudia Winkleman will host but never acknowledge that everyone else is a puppet. #celebritytraitors
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One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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This is the sort of urban planning that really boils my piss . 10 of these outside a building, all with rivets placed on them to discourage sitting on them. Someone somewhere sits with the paperwork of this. It's just a tick box, no thought about creating a liveable city . Perish the thought .
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the sort of urban planning that really boils my piss . 10 of these outside a building, all with rivets placed on them to discourage sitting on them. Someone somewhere sits with the paperwork of this. It's just a tick box, no thought about creating a liveable city . Perish the thought .