Reposted by: Duncan Morrow
Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights?
Interesting comments from Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General for England and Wales👇
#ECHR
Interesting comments from Dominic Grieve, former Attorney General for England and Wales👇
#ECHR
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.
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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.
Students moving in: stocking up for a long winter at the cash and carry open night!
One small step for Hill Street: maybe a giant leap for Belfast? Good News at last.
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Hill Street: Pedestrianisation to happen later this year
The infrastructure minister says an informal consultation with businesses
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Reposted by: Duncan Morrow, Shannon Vallor, Rosemary A. Joyce
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
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.
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
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Reposted by: Duncan Morrow, Daniela Gabor, Joe R. Feagin , and 12 more Duncan Morrow, 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, Colin Woodard, David R. Shumway, Dunlap, Southern Africa
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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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.
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Ballymena: Landlord says 'lives in danger' after racially-motivated attack
Six vehicles were burnt and destroyed outside a house where Filipino workers live.
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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/...
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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
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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.
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.
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
80 years today since the world lost its innocence about the potential for human beings to destroy all human life.
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BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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So, it can be done. No traffic-related deaths in a year in a city of 700,000.
www.politico.eu/article/hels...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻
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A visionary urban policy lead by @annehidalgo.bsky.social 💫🫶🏻🙏🏻
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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
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Hard to think of a more diabolical image. We are losing a grip on our humanity.
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/...
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.
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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.
Not normally in the Taliban about these issues- but this is a crime against the apostrophe…
This is a problem of adult origin: some of us are giving children the idea that attacking their peers is is acceptable behaviour.
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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.
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Just returned from the hospital where my sister is seriously ill and being intensively cared for by nurses and staff who came here from Africa and Asia. Doing the night shift. So this is unbearable, shameful actually.
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Larne: Leisure centre attacked in third night of violence in Northern Ireland
This comes after two days of violence, in which 32 officers were injured and six people arrested.
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As I walked out by Annadale this morning.. I saw a visitor
Excellent Conference of the European University Information Systems (EUNIS) @ulsteruni.bsky.social this week. Vital discussions and signposts on the future of AI, education, engagement and ethics which should be part of a wider conversation. Great graphic recording by Ruth Graham. #EUNIS25
