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Not sure there is anything with a bigger gap between what people in the football business (including press) care about vs what the general fans care about than the ballon d'Or

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

This is well worth the read and thank goodness someone is raising the alarm. I do want to say some things about revenue raising though, because things aren't always as they appear. The department of finance consulted on changing domestic rating measures twice in quick succession. At a time when

My wife in English and we used to work in same place in California. One day we came in together and an american colleague said Here come the British! I said, but I'm Irish! "Same difference" he said Something something about when people far away argue over their differences and you think... really?

One time I managed to find the exact spot where that photo was taken on google maps

Obviously the sensible and humane decision. The parties at fault here are the parades commission for carelessness, the LOL for unecessarily pressing a sensitive issue, and J Bryson. I don't actually blame the DUP because politically they kind of had no option but to back the horse once bolted.

We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts. 1. Who would benefit from the cuts?

Moving house here and around half way through packing

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beyond the weird catholics-arent-Christians implication here, I take exception to the whole invoking of religion at all for this point. Aren't atheists capable of 'acting for the greater good' too?

I understand people are passionate about Irish military neutrality but it's a very conplicated issue imo and hard to get your head around whats right. I definitely don't have the answers but when I try to discuss (trying to be polite), blanket blocking feels harsh

How the global economy became a battlefield – foreign policy expert explains

Revisiting a classic youtu.be/_iUcGfxEWtY?...

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

We roast very high quality coffee really really well. Our staff are well paid and get good benefits. We've given up over 30% of our profits in each of the last 4 years to organisations including Women's Aid and Solas project. If you need coffee imbibe.ie/pages/shop #speirgorm

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Really enjoying the recent rest is history series on the troubles, I thought I knew a fair bit but didn't realise I was missing a lot of context, however the big issue is my brain struggling to process the way Dominic Sandbrook pronounces 'protestants' with a hard first t.

John McGinn speaking last night: "The players who have left have decided the opportunities they’ve had are probably better for them but there is nothing better than playing for Aston Villa in the Champions League." #AVFC

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures

A significant contributor to the gender pay gap and the continuing financial disparity between men and women is the undervaluing of all of the unpaid care work done by women in Ireland. Women all over Ireland get up early, every morning, and go to work, unpaid and unvalued.

Britain’s original plan for New Zealand had the islands split into three provinces, with nonsensical borders typical of any British colonial project. The provinces were named after Irish ones (the guy who came up with them was an Anglo-Irish colonial officer). These didn’t last for long.

Farage below Polanski? Oh wow he is *fucked*

Having described Dublin's Wax Museum as featuring "Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown spitting a jet of water from her mouth while farting on a toilet", I worry this might lead you to presume this was a delightfully heightened bit of absurdism on my part. Dear reader, this is not the case.

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

reminiscent of when a backpacker claims they 'did' a country

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🎵Sorry Nick Jackson Oooh Villa want to buy another guy Ollie apologised a trillion times 🎵

The @stephenkb.bsky.social column this week is a deeply necessary, clear counter to most of the discourse on the future for tax and spend for the British state. There are three options - there's no point in pussyfooting around with myths and not opting for one of them. www.ft.com/content/9102...

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Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

Fun reminder - in two weeks Sony is going to delist 500+ digital movies. If you bought one, they’re going to vanish from your library too. Oh, and no refunds, you didn’t actually own them in the first place www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...

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Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

My latest article looks at attitudes of Northern Irish voters in the run up to NI's biggest election for years. I’ll highlight some key points, the likely election battlegrounds and a few surprising findings in a 🧵 below. Enjoy! #Speirgorm #Stormont

I’ve had one of the most stressful weeks of my professional life thanks to an influx of non-stop hatred, vitriol and attempts to hack all of my accounts… because I wrote about Glen Hansard’s habit of preying on teenage girls.

My daughter is watching Cruella, or as I like to call it, 'The Devil Wears Madra'.

People always seem to take opinion polls as destiny. Look back at the last few years in British politics... when was the last period of stability??

An utterly absurd pass from Chelsea Gray

Look the way she translates the opening versus other versions. It's incredible.