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Listening powerful words of Natasha O’Brien just now on Drivetime RTE Immense frustration experienced by so many at continued incidence of #ViolenceAgainstWomen

Looking at William M Windsor etc at the Taylor concert I am sorry that even normal tickets are becoming exclusive because of the pricing. Last few I’ve been to over €100 and I don’t need accommodation. But as T swift apparently said ‘jet lag is for other people ‘😢

Mick Lynch thinks the UK's decline is due to 44 years of Thatcherism and we have to stop the decline. Of course he is right.

Frankly I don’t know why anybody of Biden or Trump’s age would *want* to be President. I’m 60 and I don’t even want to go upstairs.

110 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Sophie, his wife, were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip. Starting next week on The Rest Is History, a four part special on the assassination, recorded on location in Sarajevo x.com/holland_tom/st…

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The jacket Archduke Franz Ferdinand wore on the day of his assassination in 1914. 📷google images

Joe Biden and Donald Trump: Highlights from the first 2024 presidential debate news.sky.com/video/joe-bide…

29 June 1871. The Trade Union Act was passed. It gave trade unions legal status for the first time. Under its terms, no trade union could be regarded as criminal because of ordering strikes and trade union funds were now legally protected from government confiscation.

Taylor Swift has donated enough money to cover the food bills for an entire year across 11 food banks and 8 community pantries in Liverpool. She has done this for every city she's toured in the UK meaning she’s done more than the govt has in 14 years to eradicate food poverty.

Kitty Holland wins defamation case against John Waters and is awarded €35,000 in damages irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

Happy #BlackCatAppreciationDay Black cats are often the last to be adopted due to superstition or because they don't instagram well. FFS. Adopt don't shop.

Let me be clear: Stalin was not Jewish. His wives were not Jewish. & only a few dimwits have ever believed any different. End of story. Ive been deluged by questions fr US. For those interested in real history i recommend these. Kotkin & Service especially good.

S Sebag Montefiore Agreed - Robert Service is exceptional on Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky, as well as his surveys of the Cold War and 20th century Russia. Highly recommend.

The news just bloody awful at the moment. Sexual predators, war…

there has been no- one, no- one in the whole history of democratic politics who has so completely married together profound malevolence with jaw- dropping stupidity

I don’t believe this is happening and I’m a historian….

"There’s no point now banging on about behaviour and behaviour tsars. You can’t teach children to behave better by making them feel shit. It doesn’t work." Well said Anna Maxwell Martin. theguardian.com/education/2025…

Into your hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend your servant Jorge, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming. Receive him into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and the glorious company of the saints in light. Amen. #PopeFrancis