“This is what women mean when we talk about microaggressions at work. Not always loud, not always headline-grabbing, but persistent, calculated and corrosive.” belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

Anyone saying “up the ra” will of course be referring to the pre 1921 version.

As we find ourselves facing again the brutal and heartbreaking reality of violence against women and girls, unionism is just back from meeting the world's most famous sexual abuser and it's handing out pens delighting in the belittling of a female committee chair. Lovely.

A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in Northern Ireland since 2020 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Very interesting description of the Democratic Unionist Party in British files from 1990 describing its sectarian and "crypto-fascist" beginnings: "Its early days as a crypto-fascist splinter group and its association with some of the wilder men on the Protestant side." /1

It’s 2026 and this is still going on, justified and approved by dangerous individuals whose whole purpose in life is to rage bait and antagonise whilst being platformed by local media and the PSNI. ABSOLUTELY scundered for you.

Emma Little-Pengelly BL , can't ans you directly, you've me blocked. Anyway, you met with a predator, accused of being a paedophile, named in the Epstien files, talks the biggest load of nonsense , then you have the cheek to talk about women being murdered and abused. Not in my name😟

Talk to any woman who goes out for a run along our roads. The comments hurled out windows, horns beeped & lewd gestures. Like racism, we have an unsettling tolerance & acceptance of it which is poisonous to society.

Morning

Perhaps Tom Elliot could use his position in the House of Lords to call for the British government to proscribe Ulster Resistance. It must strike him as strange that it hasn't been done already. Or perhaps even ask why it was exempted from decommissioning ?

All PSNI officers cited by Police Ombudsman in second Katie Simpson investigation have retired -Belfast Telegraph Accountability that ends at retirement isn’t accountability. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

“While some in the DUP try to paint Irish as threatening or a weapon in a culture war, for many young people learning the language has become liberating” ~Stephanie Chase The Irish News ☕️🥐

Sport is political. Always has been, always will be. Boycott Israel FAIreland

Racism & sectarianism in plain sight in Newtownabbey.

The National Graves Association Belfast extend Easter greetings to the families, friends and comrades of our patriot dead. Fuair siad bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann

MÁLA POIST: Cuba is not Trump's to take belfastmedia.com/mala-poist-cub…

Confirmation that the US is now an extremist religious autocratic dictatorship.

Belfast Telegraph also at it… Remember, words do matter. They frame the story, shape & normalise the narrative…..it’s othering.

The fastest living organisms on the planet: 3. The cheetah in full stride in pursuit of prey. 2. The peregrine falcon during its hunting dive. 1. PSNI officers retiring after being interviewed under caution.

I see Ulster’s in trouble again. I hear it’s the fault of the usual suspects: the Catholics, the gays, the foreigners, and duplicitous Lundy types. The script never changes.