Dr Robert Bohan

Ascension

Nope, you should have at least the ability of a young teen to use social media. I have sufficient emojis & punctuation.

Imagine being gay.

I don’t usually comment on Unionism as it’s pointless. Where homophobia & transphobia have really jumped the shark is that the Alliance & SF are supporting it. SF is an all-Ireland party & its abandonment of LGBTQ ppl has damaged it, in the South.

Parties in Northern Ireland executive agree to extend Britain's ban on puberty blockers The medication is used to delay the effects of puberty.

The Northern Ireland executive is notorious for its anti-LGBTQ behaviour. Sinn Féin, the Alliance, the DUP & the UUP have all supported the transphobic UK govt on removing vital healthcare from trans kids. The healthcare remains available for non-trans kids. That’s called bigotry.

Only seeing this now. The DUP are the homophobic & antisemitic Reverend Ian Paisley’s Unionist Party in N Ireland [UK]. The Party not only rejected the Good Friday Peace Agreement, they also ran a homophobic campaign called ‘Save Ulster from Sodomy’. They are part of the Belfast Executive*

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Thank you! They framed up nicely!

The thing is, we are a post colonial country with a liberal democracy & 30y of political protest as well as an anti-authoritarian culture. We don’t salute flags or pledge allegiance or trust the media or politicos. The US needs to deal with Black & First Nations colonialism before it can move on.

Fianna Fáil Top Totty will never end 😉

I think so, but he can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Maybe Martin was putting manners on Chambers?! 😉 Supposedly he’s been handpicked for the succession. I can’t see FF choosing Varadkar 2.0 to be honest.

It’s not prosaic to Irish ppl. The housing shortage & landlords are v big political deals. Also journos wouldn’t treat actual politicians >with power< like this. The presidency has v limited powers so they like to savage the candidates. They don’t savage party leaders.

*these were three aspects that the former theocracy saw as evil. It’s interesting that it’s a certain sort of reactionary old man who hates her, Quelle Surprise! The campaign against her will be really increased by Ireland’s three national newspapers [they are all FG in editorial line].

Connolly discussing why some men are threatened by women. Despite being a woman, an intellectual & a socialist she’s leading*. As long as no banana skins appear, it’s her campaign! [There are always banana skins in Irish presidential elections!].

This is a disaster for Micheál Martin as leader of FF. He handpicked Gavin & his party were divided on it. No doubt the ‘cute hoors’ will be calculating who can oust him! Chambers is prob sharpening daggers right now… [despite being gay, he campaigned against same sex marriage 🙄].

And the tulip has just withdrawn from the Presidential race.

It’s between Connolly & Humphreys now. Humphreys had a green paper to persecute ppl with disabilities. That hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, yet. On transfers, Connolly is still coming out as heading the poll. Only 3 weeks to go!

I’m posting art to calm down from thinking about how the establishment scientists, media & politicos failed the UK & Ireland. It was astonishing to see Independent SAGE being ignored in the UK & the WHO having to morally blackmail the Irish govt into following the science. More art, methinks!

François Boucher [c1760s] Girl in a Park

A labour of love.

Oh & MI6. If you weren’t aware they used to brag about their ability to warn of global pandemics. In the event, not a sausage. They clearly have spies in China so what were they doing? Sack ‘em all.

The disaster was British culture which responds to authoritarianism, due to the colonial legacy.

If I were a dictator I’d ban anyone on the govt & opposition benches from ever being elected again & send their leaders & advisers to live in one tent beside a mortuary to manage graves. The British scientific establishment would lose their beloved Sirs & Lords & Truss would be done for regicide.

I’m just remembering ‘the model’. I spoke with a respected UK journo & said ask No 10 what is the model & can you have a copy. They were ignored. The BBC just repeated the govt line, or worse - gave space to far right Tufton St knobheads.

Only about 40,000 Brits died in the Blitz by comparison!

To get an idea of how badly the British political & scientific establishment did, it was a common refrain in Ireland at the time, as ppl felt totally overwhelmed, to say ‘at least we’re not in England’. Some of our Uni experts even spoke out!

Seriously, if you post memes at me blaming Johnson, fuck off. The opposition did SFA. The Royals didn’t speak out. Sturgeon was the only politico to take it seriously. What was all that taking back control about, one might ask. But you don’t get to play party politics with this. Labour+Tory=☠️

Cheltenham spread it across Ireland. But there was so much stupidity & callousness - pensioners & nursing homes were a disaster area caused by politicians. Lockdowns were not done properly so went on & on. I spent most of my time on Twitter flagging links on how people could protect themselves!

The main difference between Ireland & the UK was that the Irish public wanted a lockdown & understood better than the govt how serious things were. Even so the media & politicians were bad. Also the Irish govt followed WHO advice, the UK ignored it.

Boris Johnson’s former top adviser says herd immunity was UK plan to fight coronavirus Former top aide to Boris Johnson says plan was ‘part disaster, part non-existent.’

I think it was a race meeting [Cheltenham?] that cause serious issues by spreading the virus across both countries at the start. Remember how Boris & his moronic advisor decided that they’d go full eugenics - & started reinventing definitions like ‘herd immunity’ 🙄

If you remember, the UK govt actually started openly ‘reframing’ statistics, but even with their massaged data - it was horrific. My double figure included those the UK reclassified. Here’s their ‘official’ figure per million:

UK 3,404 deaths per million
Ireland 1,929
Norway 1,050
NL 1.283

I’ve sought to flag the use of eugenics pseudoscience by the Tory & Labour parties, regarding trans ppl. But honestly, if killing hundreds of thousands of people didn’t matter…

Our neighbours are on a very dark path.

When C4 News started asking scientific questions they were frozen out by Downing St. Labour failed to even try to bring science to the table.

I must admit, as a scientist, I was horrified by the silence of the various scientific academies, institutes & bodies.

180-200,000 died by manslaughter.

The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out