Mike Tomlinson

Half of race rioters in the North of Ireland are also domestic abusers

@jjn1.bsky.social 'This isn’t about mundane stuff such as return on investment, but about something much grander: world domination, or words to that effect.'

Great discussion this monring. Exploring what a just, sustainable, rights-based new Ireland could look like. And doing that together, regardless of background.

Ireland awakens to the risk of relying on US investment The country is one of the most exposed in Europe to Trump’s tariffs, intensifying fears that a golden era of growth will slow down

Ireland awakens to the risk of relying on US investment on.ft.com/458GQOX

Israelis write: 'The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.'

Derry, yesterday. Each square represents 10 children killed in Gaza.

'When he heard what The Irish Times saw in Sderot, Prof Bartov said it reminded him “of what the Germans called in the second World War ‘execution tourism’, ie touring and photographing (as souvenirs) one’s own atrocities”.'

Now where have we heard this before?
Deny, delete and delay: the secrecy operation inside special forces

Mark O'Connell: Tony Blair’s staff knew about barbarous ‘Gaza riviera’ plan. That’s a fact too gross for satire Blair’s staff participated in calls about plans to build a Dubai-style dynamic trading and tourism hub out of the ruins of Gaza

"What we are seeing here cannot even properly be called neocolonialism, so naked is the exploitation, so grim the equation of stolen land and private wealth. It is really just good old fashioned original-style colonialism."

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Una Mullally: Keir Starmer was quick to condemn Kneecap, but strangely silent on Moygashel There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate

Keir Starmer found the time to speak about an Irish band playing Glastonbury, making interventions that exerted huge political pressure..Why did he not have anything to say about the premeditated, explicit and threatening racism on display in Moygashel last week?

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Full FT report on Tony Blair Institute and the 'Gaza Riviera' project.

From FT - the privatisation of ethnic cleansing

Keir Starmer once stood up for protesters. Now he calls them terrorists As a human rights lawyer, Starmer defended direct action on grounds of conscience. But the world is now a much less forgiving place

Keir Starmer used to defend peace protestors. Now he calls them terrorists. What happened ? My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/la...

Palestine Action ban threatens all our civil liberties Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.

Richard Norton-Taylor on the Pal Action ban due to be announced on Monday www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Former chief constable calls the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group "a disgrace". Proscribe "the terror group known as the Israeli Defense Forces" instead.

Irish Times letter: The EU foreign ministers must act with decisiveness today.

The moral and legal bankruptcy of unionism summed up in this front page headline from today's News Letter

New hope for NYC

"The Centre for Media Monitoring @cfmmuk calls for an independent public review of the BBC’s Gaza reporting.
This report is evidence-based, rigorous & damning. The BBC must reform."

DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE
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The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) @cfmmuk 📢 NEW REPORT: A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices. Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE 📄 https://cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CfMM-report-2023-24-ePDF-1.pdf #BBCBias #Gaza @BBCNews Embedded video 8:23 AM · Jun 16, 2025

Full report
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Ireland (N&S) take note

British wrong turn on nukes: Guardian letters.

Strong piece by Allison Morris (Belfast Telegraph) on racist actions in Ballymena

Ain’t this the truth. Tina Satchwell, God Rest Her, was found six yrs after her husband murdered her & buried her in the house. No one burned a Luas in outrage over that. They just want an excuse to go after the Other. It’s plain racism.

A message from Barcelona

Israel did not arrest the crew of the Madleen, it kidnapped them The crew are now hostages...

This was straight up piracy

www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-did...

Robert Reich: We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state.

LA

Exclusive: US mulls giving millions to controversial Gaza aid foundation, sources say Sources say $500 million will be given to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and would come from the USAID, which is being folded into the U.S. State Department.

Reuters: US is considering giving $500 millions to controversial Gaza humiliation foundation www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall The UK’s strategic defence review plans to normalise nuclear weapons. Don’t believe the PR hype: they are immoral, irrational and catastrophic, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Irish neutrality or British nuclear rearmament and normalisation of nuclear weaponry?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...