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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 12h

The UK has a £3Trillion national debt and this debt continues to rise. The UK Government is unable to reverse this trend. Those of us in Northern Ireland must consider other constitutional and economic options. #IrishUnity #BorderPoll #Think32 londonlovesbusiness.com/opinion-uks-...

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Opinion: UK's £3tn rising debt, but Burnham’s welfare pledge collides with Britain’s defence crisis - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Explore Burnham’s £3tn nightmare as Britain navigates rearmament without cutting welfare. A critical financial analysis awaits.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 15h

There's only one Chester!!

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 17h

Chester’s lawyers are looking into copyright infringement #DailyChester

Poster at dog park showing a cockapoo and the text: Chester; the all in one app for pet professionals

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 18h

🧵 A medieval tower-house glowing beneath a starry sky. I love how the old castle and farmhouse meet in this Irish landscape, their windows lighting a welcome.. Signed, original, signed, one-of-a-kind ink drawing. A3 |29.7X42cm/11.7X16.5” [1] More here:

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A Wexford Home & Castle | Original Irish Landscape Drawing | Ireland Wall Art | Irish Art | Castle Artwork - Etsy

This Pen & Ink Drawings & Illustrations item is sold by RobertBohan. Ships from Ireland. Listed on Sep 30, 2026

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 15h

Her politics and hate are ugly that's the only that needs comment.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 15h

That's fucking shocking what a dick move

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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Hi Moore. I'm a Protestant. My brother and a grandfather were in the Orange Order. I grew up in a Loyalist area. You could reasonably say it was my culture and I think the Orange Order, to use your words, is sectarian and seeking dominion over others. Most Protestants do, so you're talking balls.

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Paul Bloomer @bloomeroid.bsky.social · 23h

If food costs are a worry, HERE NI is offering £100 supermarket vouchers to LGBTQIA+ women facing financial hardship who live in the Belfast City Council area. Previous recipients can apply. Applications are confidential. Request a form: tracey.mcdowell@hereni.org. Deadline: 5pm, 16 October 2026.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 22h

Turning left instead of right isn't a sacrifice, they're able to parade they want to offend

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching the culture wars over Christmas heating up on social media. No one gets angrier about “not being allowed to celebrate Christmas ” than a completely secular white person who never attends church, couldn’t accurately tell you the Nativity Story, and who’s favourite carol is “Rudolph”. 🙄

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026

"Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said." [Times page 2]

Trans activists ‘wrong over single-sex code’
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
Transgender rights activists are spreading misinformation about guidance that protects single-sex spaces by claiming it erodes trans people’s rights, the equalities regulator has said.

Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated code of practice had made the “real alarm” felt by trans people worse by wrongly suggesting they had lost protections or would face sex checks.

Stephenson said women had also been affected by not having access to single-sex spaces. She said: “Women who believe that their right to privacy, dignity or safety have not been properly protected deserve to have those concerns taken seriously too.”

Last week the Liberal Democrats passed a conference motion branding the code discriminatory and “unworkable”.

At Labour’s conference Joanne Thomas, the general secretary of the Usdaw union and chairwoman of Labour Unions, said the law and the EHRC code would hurt trans and nonbinary people and argued that rights had been rolled back.

Stephenson said the code did not create new law or abolish protections for transgender people.

She said: “Recognising women’s need for access to single-sex services doesn’t require us to dismiss the rights of trans people. And recognising the vulnerability of trans people doesn’t require us to dismiss women’s concerns.”

The EHRC’s code of practice came into force in August, 16 months after the Supreme Court ruled that sex in relation to the Equality Act must be defined biologically. This means single-sex lavatories, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not the gender with which they identify.

The Good Law Project, which is backing a legal challenge against the code, accused the EHRC of producing “discriminatory” and “unworkable” guidance and said service providers which followed it would be “helping to strip trans pe…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

The Football Leaks emails are what lead to Manchester City being found guilty of obscene amounts of cheating. If I am remembering correctly, and I think I am, the documents leaked also contained legal ones involving Ronaldo, who has been accused of at least 5 rapes and sexual assaults.

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This speaks to my elder millennial heart on a spiritual level

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Political unionism's ability to pick exactly the wrong policy and wrong leaders at this point should be considered deliberate

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

"DUP leader Gavin Robinson was the mystery politician in the back of a car pictured leaving a meeting with loyalist Jamie Bryson. But the DUP has denied the get-together was a ‘secret Drumcree summit’, saying the East Belfast MP has been the target of a smear campaign." [Sunday Life front page]

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week for my #calling353 series in @thejournal.ie I look at Seán Ó Cuirínn’s translation of Dracula into Irish. (I’m doing all spooky topics for October!) The tale behind the Irish translation of Dracula is something to really get your teeth into jrnl.ie/7180942

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The tale behind the Irish translation of Dracula is something to really get your teeth into

The scholar who carried out the translation was so respected that he was approached by the government and asked to take his pick of novels.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Makes sense ... they're dicks.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I personally think centrism just means polite popularism there's no ideal they won't sacrifice for power. For example the government has a moral right to protect the trans community, Labour through them to the wolves. Same on the middle east.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

Wes Streeting agreeing with Donald Trump on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph

Streeting: Trump right to demand Britain spend more on defence
The Sunday Telegraph4 Oct 2026By Rozina Sabur NATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR in Iceland

Wes Streeting and Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Iceland’s minister for foreign affairs
DONALD TRUMP is “absolutely right” to demand more of the UK on defence spending, Wes Streeting has said.

The Defence Secretary said Britain must be war-fighting ready by 2030 after Nato warned that Russia could strike a member of the transatlantic alliance by that date.

In an interview with The Telegraph after a summit of defence ministers in Keflavik, Iceland, Mr Streeting said: “We want to be deterring Russia, and we want to make sure that if deterrence fails, we’re ready to defeat our enemies.

“It’s why the Nato alliance is absolutely critical. Nato-first is our policy, but also it’s why I’ve been really keen to make clear to our friends in the United States of America that, as far as we’re concerned, President Trump and his administration have been absolutely right to demand more of the UK, more of Europe. We’ve got to step up and carry more of the responsibility for defending our own continent.”

He made the comments in the lead-up to the first Budget of Andy

Burnham’s premiership, with Labour MPs split over calls to cut the soaring welfare bill to find the money to boost defence.

John Healey, the Chancellor, has refused to chart a path to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030 despite resigning as Defence Secretary over the issue during Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.

Mr Healey has signalled he will fully fund the Government’s defence investment plan in the upcoming Budget, but deferred outlining a pathway to 3 per cent to the 2027 spending review.

Despite that, Mr Streeting, his successor at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), insisted that Labour was “well on our way” to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence.

He said: “Bear in mind that when Labour came in, we were at 2.3 per cent. By next year, we’ll be at 2.7 per ce…

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They shut down the City because London isn't loyal enough. It's not just stupid it's deranged. Same with Dumcree there's no win, it shows the world you're cunts. Do they have the same PR as Bibi

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Then they laud Bryson who failed on flags, failed the sea border and supported the Brexit which advanced unity decades. He's not only shite, he's destructive to his own cause and community. He nearly took everyone to social breakdown because Belfast City Hall mirrored Westminster in flags.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Toddlers show more empathy and logic. How can these politicians in good faith say this is a rights issues, no one has a right to be such dicks. Why are their friends not saying you're being dicks. It's all just dick moves. Self harming dick moves.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just can't fathom the efforts for something that doesn't matter. Like basically this is about would you please turn left and go down this road. No one is saying no march, they have had their march every year. They are upset about not being able to annoy their neighbours.

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beauty sleep before he comes to church tomorrow afternoon for the annual pet blessing. Goodnight Bluesky. May you all sleep as peacefully, knowing yourselves to be as deeply loved. #DailyChester

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Paddy Joe. @paddyjoe73.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We deserve a united Ireland.

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Irish Unity @irishunity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The number of workers in Northern Ireland paying income tax at the higher rate, doubled since 2020. Northern Ireland deserves more funding from the UK Government.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is that need to be such bastards so consuming.

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This may be a lot bigger than football. UK is for sale.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/10/2026

"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""

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Bob C @funtimebobby14.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do they actually believe this ballix, I get the readership does? But do adult journalists actually think this shite is acceptable. The cognitive dissonance must be exhausting.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Remember folks, no matter what, no one can take away your imagination. So instead of following the herd*, become what is called in deer conservation circles - a sneaky fucker. These are lads expelled from the herd by the alpha-stag, who sneak back in for a … Thus increasing the genetic diversity.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵 Long ago, when the Earth was young, I used to be a botanist & survey national parks & other habitats. I brought that knowledge of flora & fauna to my art, as well as a love of colour & Celtic design. You can see my inspiration in the unique ink drawings in this thread! [1]

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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So the North. Ireland [NI] situation, re the Unionists [Orange Order] wanting to walk from Drumcree thru the Nationalist area of the Garvaghy Rd, is escalating. Police are inflammatory by threats of arrest & the NI minister is agreed, by all sides, to be a joke. Drumcree: rallies in Portadown

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Drumcree: Thousands gather at rival rallies in Portadown as police say it is illegal to block road

Police said that those blocking the Garvaghy Road will be treated as participating in an unnotified and therefore illegal protest, and will face criminal justice consequences.

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The sad thing is, she could be talking about … I was going to say “dozens of men” …but let’s face it, we’re talking hundreds.

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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 03/10/2026

"Hello, Noel, I'd like to swap a social structure, that although flawed, works, for a privatised race to the bottom that only serves the rich and evil"

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The UK doesn't need to downgrade the triple lock, or cut benefits like PIP for disabled people because a #WealthTaxNow HMRC funded to catch all millionaire tax evaders and 1950s style progressive #TaxTheRich could end all poverty, homelessness, NHS underfunding ... meme via Left Wing UK II

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Grand Moff Tarquin @imennie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not qualified to sign this as I'm an immigrant, but if you are, please do to show the minority that their view is niche and very wrong.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵 Somewhere underneath the waves, luck is swimming towards you. A determined golden fish cuts through an intricate blue wave; evocative symbol of fortune & hidden purpose. Signed, original hand-drawn ink on paper. A3 | 29.7X42 cm/11.7X16.5” More here:

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This Pen & Ink Drawings & Illustrations item is sold by RobertBohan. Ships from Ireland. Listed on Sep 26, 2026

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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