I'm old enough to remember when politicians kept out of active cases and at least pretended to prefer when the police arrested people who broke laws.
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I'm old enough to remember when politicians kept out of active cases and at least pretended to prefer when the police arrested people who broke laws.
Mentions far-right extremism, then immediately catches himself and hedges - "all sides of the spectrum" Which other sides are we worried about exactly? Did another group burn a tram during a race riot that I didn't hear about?
Who is the state protecting?
This is what passes for 'justice' in Northern Ireland.. police and state privileging this while the Justice Minister tells everyone else they should do more.
Lastly, the fearless journalists speaking out in N. Ireland are often under paramilitary death threats. Some have been given 48-hour ultimatums to leave the country, others physically attacked, some had their homes fitted with bulletproof windows. And still nothing from the Justice Minister...
Oh fuck off BBC, stop doing paramilitary thugs' PR for them. The UDA barely touched Republican paramilitaries during The Troubles - they killed a grant total of 11 of them in 25 years. They killed three times as many *other Loyalist* paramilitaries, and *twenty* times as many random civilians.
Yesterday, after the white supremacist paramilitaries carrying out pogroms are in the news - the NI Justice Minsiter tells everyone else to do more. While the minister hasn't even called for an Independent Paramilitary Assessment, a basic step to tackle terror? I have nothing more to say... [8/8]
July 2025, nothing again from the Justice Minister... ..remember there is a legal obligation to prevent terror. [7/n]
June 2025, still nothing from the Justice Minister. [6/n]
Fast forward to June 2025. Paramilitary impunity from August 2024 led directly to Ballymena 2025. At no point did the Justice Minister question any aspect of the August 2024 state cover-up. Nor did the Justice Minister call for a new Independent Paramilitary Assessment. [5/n]
In August 2024 - even the UN intervened. 'A United Nations committee urged the Northern Ireland Executive to “adopt robust measures to prevent and combat paramilitary racist violence and intimidation against ethnic minorities and migrants in Northern Ireland”.' [4/n] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In 2024 there was a state cover-up of paramilitary involvement in the August 2024 racist riots and pogroms. As a result less than 40 cases were prosecuted out of 1000's. Police and Justice avoided linking paramilitary orgs. The paramilitary groups went untouched. [3/n]
Without a new Independent Paramilitary Assessment, the Justice Minister & PSNI can downplay the role of armed paramilitary groups that have 12,500 members. The old assessment captured only the paramilitary landscape of 2015. Paramilitary ops have expanded & encompass white supremacist terror. [2/n]
Alison Morris is one of the most fearless journalists in N. Ireland. She was on BBC Radio Ulster this morning discussing this. This is far-right, white supremacist, loyalist terror. The NI Justice Minister hasn't called for an Independent Paramilitary Assessment despite the last one being in 2015.
One of the tweets was a clear incitement to violence.
The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections. Read our joint statement 👇 @ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
An important point to add to this re: policing. This was an overtly political speech made by the leader of the Royal Black Perceptory. 'Overrun' is charged rhetoric to provoke an aggressive response to immigration. PSNI officers are members of the Royal Black Perceptory. [1/2]
Look at how the far-right 'think tank' Policy Exchange is driving UK Gov policy. Transphobia, racism, attacks on neurodiversity - that's just their last few reports. Did this one drive this racist initiative? 'Education not immigration' .. xenophobic racism. Maga-style control of universities.
Preceptory .. not perceptory.
'Of the 7,000 officers in the PSNI, at least 168 are members of exclusively Protestant groups – the Orange Order, Royal Black Preceptory, Apprentice Boys of Derry and Independent Orange Order.' Is it appropriate that PSNI officers are members of an organisation claiming that NI is 'overrun'? [2/2]
An important point to add to this re: policing. This was an overtly political speech made by the leader of the Royal Black Perceptory. 'Overrun' is charged rhetoric to provoke an aggressive response to immigration. PSNI officers are members of the Royal Black Perceptory. [1/2]
Labour’s version of ICE has kicked in. Anyone Black or Brown on a bike is stereotyped.
Grooming gangs - a reason for the UK Government not to have a state definition of 'Islamophobia'. More fascist ideology that sets aside one faith from another. That one can be subjected to a hate crime over another. Policy Exchange are the far-right's PR agency. [5/5]
'Education not immigration' .. xenophobic racism. Maga-style control of universities.[4/n] policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
Policy Exchange using kids in care to present MAGA-style disnformation that leaving children in care at risk from gender ideology'captured by Gender Ideology'. This is actual fascist-ideology wrapped up in 'traditional family'. [3/n] policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
Policy Exchange are a MAGA-style cog in delivering far-right Government in the UK. Some of their so-called 'reports': Focussing on autism and neurodivergence and attacking provision in public health and schools for it. RFK-style. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... [2/5]
ECHR: a "reflection that human rights violations had been a sustaining factor in the N. Ireland conflict and that only a set of safeguards starting from a baseline of the ECHR and not based on a statute subject to change by the UK Parliament, would have general credibility within N. Ireland.” [1/3]
What about all the other Labour MPs, do they accept far-right appeasement, racist scapegoating from the Home Secretary?
After 13 months of race riots and serious hate crimes, the Justice Minister has come to the conclusion that “something must be done”. She’s not sure what. But she thinks it’s all of our jobs. Maybe hers, hard to tell. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
Useless. The Justice Minister tells people to do more. You do more.
Starmer should understand that the masked men attacking asylum accommodation in London were chanting 'Fu@k Keir Starmer.. Fu@k Keir Starmer'. Bootlicking far-right neo-nazis only benefits the far-right.
Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Starmer is a careerist with zero principles. He's surrounded himself with the same and used the disciplinary process to purge the party of people who have the basics of a real political education. He's precisely who The Sun want in the role. He's going nowhere.
Every scrap of unprincipled weakness Labour are displaying right now is legitimising white domestic terror. There is no putting this genie back in the bottle when the front bench are playing 'pick me' with white supremacist far-right, organised by neo-nazis, Patriotic Alternative & Homeland Party.
This is Labour today, doing Farage's work for him. bsky.app/profile/impl...
Update PSNI claim they are going to 'strengthen their footprint' and are pretending it is a reporting issue. Loyalist paramilitary groups are so infiltrated by the state, they could be taken down tomorrow. But that's not the way things happen here. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
what if the UK had a major political party that appealed to people who didn't love pogroms
Certifiable insanity is the only explanation for this By 2050, extreme weather will cost $38 TRILLION a year - one third of today's global GDP For a 2C rise by 2050 the UK Society of Actuaries predicts 2 BILLION dead But do these idiots give a f*ck? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For anyone wondering who the UDA is.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...
They are banned, they just operate freely and Yvette Cooper isn't doing a thing because they don't pose a threat to anyone except about 1 million Catholics and anyone who is a racialised minority or seeking asylum in Northern Ireland.
They are sustained by politcians too lazy to do their job and dismantle them. Why would they give up? They are narco terrorists privileged by the state with high level government access & cash, privileged by police & privileged by the judiciary who give them less than 1/3 of mandatory sentences..
Media 101: When you see someone write "white working class", ask yourself: What's the word "white" doing there? What function is it serving?
Today’s news from Belfast. An actual proscribed terror group supposedly on ceasefire and enjoying the benefits of the Good Friday Agreement, doing actual terror. m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 The truth about protests fuelled by fascism
The National in Scotland isn't afraid to use the term far-right.
Thank you.
Where was this?
BBC have completely stopped using the phrase far-right. This seems to be an editorial decision to normalise fascist violence.
These are acts of terror.
The Westminster system made people poorer with austerity and Brexit - and now it’s trying to distract from those failures by scapegoating people who have been through unimaginable hardship. It is pathetic, it is cowardly and I will have no part in it. #RefugeesWelcome
40,000 people in attendance. 40,000 lost preference votes in the next Stormont election in those marginal seats. People who live in mixed areas but who want a border poll, frozen out by the party. Alliance ministerial seats legacy? A dead Lough Neagh & far-right and paramilitaries on the streets.
Nailed it. Alliance’s lurch to the hard right: attacking LGBTQ+ rights & suppressing Palestine solidarity - Alliance under Naomi Long are finished. ‘Having an additional swipe at the Alliance Party, he claimed there is something wrong with the party when they are “on the same side as the DUP”’
I only just saw it on their groups insta story earlier.
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Kitty uses they / them.
Berlin, Germany - broken arm, broken nose, broken State.
The important takeaway for people in N. Ireland is that the PSNI have refused to deploy Public Order legislation when people seeking asylum are being terrorised in their accommodation here. The cosy relationship between PSNI and far-right / paramilitaries should be under the spotlight now.
Where's Starmer? Destabilising regions feels like a UK Government tactic - either by intent or neglect. Reform pushing for Senedd 2026, social media corporations allowed run wild in Scotland and impunity in N. Ireland for the paramilitary / far-right hook up. Westminster overseeing the lot.
'During the Southport riots less than 5% of X Community Notes proposed were published. Of Notes that did go live, the time it took to get them up failed to mitigate against people seeing & acting on, false and harmful content. The delay to Community Note publication stretched to almost 20 hours.'
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
The teenage legend who condemned the BBC, live on air, for being complicit in the Genocide of the Palestinian people, has been identified as Callum from Liverpool Here he is given more time to explain why he gatecrashed the live BBC broadcast as he discussed his A Level results Salute 🫡
The idea that banning one group would magically banish a tactic was always ludicrous, but that's the hopelessly ill-informed Lord Walnut all over - still desperately lobbying to get his old job back #Walnuts
"Tony Blair took part in a White House meeting with US president Donald Trump to discuss Gaza after the war" A reminder that the Tony Blair Institute recently helped produce a plan to forcibly expel the entire civilian population from Gaza #GMB
Truth. These truths will correctly cast a lasting shadow over Europe’s democratic and humanitarian credentials for generations, not unlike that of Nazi Germany emerging from the holocaust in 1945. This time, we are all complicit.
FOREARMS
Why paying Nolan 20 people's wages from the licence fee to sit on his hole platforming pig-thick bigots after a racist pogrom is essential. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
I have complete and utter conviction that to be LGBT+ and/or feminist is right, good, inherent and necessary, and you can call me woke, TRA, dyke, queer and I'm like 😎✌️
Farage, Wilson and the Taliban have this in common: a denial of our shared humanity. Hiding it behind policy concerns or cold statistics won’t diminish the reality that we are condemning Afghans - whom we acknowledged as persecuted years ago - to a horrible future, if at all.
In case you somehow missed it, and you might very well have; it’s no shortcoming on your part, the Taliban are highly supportive of Nigel Farage’s plan to deport tens of thousands of Afghans from the UK. This decision is backed by Northern Ireland’s worst, Sammy “not sure dinosaurs existed” Wilson
He's just always opposed the Good Friday Agreement. DUP tried to bring it down with Brexit borders and now this..
"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself."- on.ft.com/3HKB1zO via @stephenkb.bsky.social
Mass deportation will always be the fantasy of the far-right. When Britain lost 1 million EU citizens post Covid / Brexit - it was collapse until immigration numbers increased again, albeit from elsewhere in the world. It’s the media and politicians jobs to start standing up to racist fantasists.
'Journalism is the first draft of history and killing journalists can allow history to be rewritten by their murderers.'
The language used by GB News reveals such a skewed picture of life in Britain that it’s hard to see how it could claim the values vital to any real news channel: accuracy and integrity. Check out our full investigation 👇 goodlawproject.org/gb-news-the-...
Which loyalist?
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Right now Starmer could introduce a Bill Of Rights to protect people from a power grab by the far-right ... but no, Labour don't see the harm in the far-right.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has vowed to deport 600,000 "illegal migrants" by which he means sending 111,000 asylum seekers to the taliban and rounding up a further half a million random black and brown people. As you can imagine, racists are delighted with the plans x
Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 does not apply to the far-right and active and armed loyalist paramilitary groups.
Thanks!
Where is that guidance?
'Speaking to a protester holding a placard with ‘Illegal Migration Threatens Our Families and Our Nation’ emblazoned across it... The presence of the well-known loyalist makes a mockery of the claim that the anti-immigration rallies are spontaneous acts with no connection to paramilitary groups.'
No way. That's actually pathetic..
This was the recent Newtownards Rd roadblock. Now confirmed to be East Belfast UVF manned. No arrests of course and PSNI acted as traffic police to ensure it happened without disruption. This is in the Justice Minister’s own constituency.
Linked to East Belfast UVF. This is who PSNI facilitate. ‘Last week, McCartney was seen among a group of anti-immigration protesters blocking the lower Newtownards Road and preventing traffic from travelling on into Belfast city centre.’ m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
Hollywood's silence on Palestine is reminiscent of 1930s Hollywood's silence on Nazi Germany. Georg Gyssling was the German Foreign Office representative in Los Angeles, sometimes referred to as "Hitler's Hollywood consul". www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles...
'While narratives of ‘left behind’ White victimhood, melancholia, and fragility continue to be mobilized... Our analysis shows that British government representatives actively partake in mainstreaming these narratives by translating them into policy.'
Great work, thank you.
Great to have this evidenced. 'Many research participants represented themselves as ‘left behind’ or ‘marginalised voices’, yet were in relatively powerful and privileged political positions with access to Whitehall, and chose to engage with the far-right on various levels.'
This was inevitable. But oh no, the flag raising campaign is nothing to do with the international far right. It’s just English people expressing English pride!
100%
Paul Lavery is on the right side of history, as he has always been.
What this means in reality: there simply aren't enough people being born to take care of you when you're old. That's both physically caring for you (nursing etc) and financially (paying the tax that funds your pension). Mathematically, both will be impossible.
A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is. The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.
PSNI performed an immigration raid on victims of far-right intimidation in their own home. That's all you need to know about how rotten policing is here. Naomi Long & Jon Boutcher are direrctly responsible for this. 'Officers attended addresses at Obins Street asking to see passports.'
The National Union of Journalists Belfast & District branch are having a solidarity vigil for journalists killed in the current conflict in Gaza on Tuesday 26th August 2025 at Writers Square, Belfast at 6.15pm.
Simple as that - take them down. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
