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Mike Diamond - Glasgow still in my soul after 10 years of Dorset and almost thirty years of South Co. Down.

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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wikipedia page is good and bang up to date. The years of planning route to work to avoid the loyalists blocking roads should remain a distant memory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcre...
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Drumcree conflict - Wikipedia
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should read as 'scrote'. The reaction to a new march from nationalists was inevitable but Chris Bryant the SoS didn't see any problem as he does not have a clue about NI.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Parades Commission were caught out in doing copy & paste job of previous decisions. A wee far right scooter who wants to end GFA used this as way to force new decision. Nothing has changed but as embarrassed the PC said yes to a march. The DUP need to distract from Jeffrey Donaldson.
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Rascal: Mother Of Hogs 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 🦔 @badrascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Folk with legal knowledge in Northern Ireland. With us having no health power of attorney yet, how do we ensure that a named person is the only person who gets to make health decisions for us if we are incapacitated? (shares would be appreciated)
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The dogs in the street could see the direction of travel for weeks. The long history of British SOSs not seeing trouble brewing until too late continues.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DUP need to distract from the sentencing of Jeffrey 'Epstein' Donaldson. Ripping open the wound that is Drumcree will do nicely.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
99.9% of DNA is shared by all humans, which obviously means difference exists only in the remaining 0.1%. Yes, it's another 'Edge Case War'... rolandmcs.substack.com/p/edge-case-...
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The Edge Case Wars
Have the culture wars been misnamed?
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tragically, Jason Arday died after a vicious press campaign over the last weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the rotten culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Demand an inquiry into the culture of the press
Jason Arday died after being relentlessly hounded by the press. Demand an inquiry into press culture now.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When the knuckle dragging flagshaggers rioted in a few streets we got days of international coverage. When a vast crowd came out to say No to racism almost no coverage. When a city known for division comes together for a huge party - no coverage. Almost like the media prefers bad news...
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
By today there will be a footfall in Belfast of million people for the Fleadh. People from all communities dancing & singing till early hours each day this week. Little coverage on the other island. Instead we get Guardian giving more oxygen to loyalist thugs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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The night Belfast burned: how the Northern Ireland race riots unfolded
A stabbing in June sparked another summer’s night of racial violence, stoked by loyalist groups. How did the unrest erupt – and why do many fear it will happen again?
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've just signed "Kopparberg, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ko... @StopFundingHate
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The people who brought you the recent Belfast riots are proscribed under anti terror legislation. The dogs in the street knew it was UDA and UVF. Barely an arrest and mainly 17/18 year olds. If you're the 'right sort' of terrorists you seem to have complete immunity.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/06/2026
Firefighters in Co Down dealt with what they believe was a deliberate blaze at a former convent building described as a "beautiful and iconic part" of Downpatrick.
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Firefighters tackle blaze at former Downpatrick convent
Firefighters in Co Down dealt with what they believe was a deliberate blaze at a former convent building described as a "beautiful and iconic part" of Downpatrick.
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Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
'Keep away' - Huge fire engulfs historic Convent Of Mercy in Downpatrick - live updates The fire was first spotted at around 7pm
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'Keep away' - Huge fire engulfs historic Convent Of Mercy - live updates
The fire was first spotted at around 7pm
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
BBC NI doing good coverage. Yesterday's Talkback on Sounds app & Spotlight on iplayer. The issues this raises are significant re PSNI, DUP, MI5, Brexit, the union, safeguarding etc. Way beyond stolen party funds and pretty well ignored by media in GB. Who benefits has to be asked?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Such is BBC bias they gave as much effort to reporting an SNP figure who embezzled party funds to buy 4 coffee machines as to a senior Unionist leader who carried out 18 sexual offences including the ...
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, left, and Peter Murrell former CE of the SNP, right. Did you know Donaldson’s rape victim was a 7 or 8 year-old primary s…
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Starting to come out now but really only on BBC NI. Spotlight programme on iplayer Politician, Predator & Paedophile. Major stuff that should be way bigger than Murrell guff. DUP seems to have known for years. MI5 probably knew as well.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
No planned riots in Belfast? I doubt it. Unionism and loyalists only get worked up about taigs and 'immigrants'.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Why have I been shouting about this all day? A black guy with obvious mental health issues in Belfast = massive riots. White cunt = silence.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The UVF and UDA had a riot planned within minutes of this being announced. Oh no that's in the timeline where racists were consistent.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Two tier media again I see. This happened last night. When it was a black guy in Belfast riots were being planned within minutes.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Barely getting reported which tells you everything about UK media.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/06/2026
Reform donor Richard Smith, an aerospace tycoon who owns 55 Tufton Street, is backing the push towards “remigration”: bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/revealed…
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Revealed: The 'Right-Wing Arms Race' to Deport Non-White Britons - Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority citizens from the UK, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Today we have the TUV posting racist filth. Look at the guy with the knife in their cartoon. Then given BBC platform to spread lies. BBC News - TUV MP criticised over 'racist' cartoon posted on social media www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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TUV MP criticised over 'racist' cartoon posted on social media
The image is captioned 'stop the buses' and shows a vehicle labelled 'migrant Express: from Dublin to Northern Ireland'.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
UVF and UDA treated as 'protestors' and instead of the proscribed terrorists that actually are is 2 Tier policing.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Posted by TUV. Look at man with knife attack at front. William Crawley of BBC Talkback has wiped the floor with Timothy Gaston of TUV on Talkback BBC Radio Ulster just now. Destroyed by facts. BBC News - TUV MP criticised over 'racist' cartoon posted on social media www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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TUV MP criticised over 'racist' cartoon posted on social media
The image is captioned 'stop the buses' and shows a vehicle labelled 'migrant Express: from Dublin to Northern Ireland'.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
He wiped the floor with wee stuttering Gaston. That was how you do it. Stop the lies with facts.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great piece Lee. Way better than what was in GB papers and TV from parachuted in well paid journos with not a notion about NI.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In theory the UVF and UDA are prescribed but in practice the PSNI let them do what they want. Real 2 Tier policing not the made up stuff Farage is whining on about
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
BBC Scotland is incapable of providing impartial news as they are always looking to present the union in best light. BBC NI has had to learn to be a bit more balanced the hard way. Using both regularly the standard of journalism in Belfast is way higher. Martin Geisller's nonsense this week...
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Have a read at how awful this piece on Slugger O'Toole is. Excuses for loyalist racists. Belfast loudly said no yesterday to such nonsense. The hurl was ours: why Belfast’s politicians need to do more than condemn… – Slugger O'Toole share.google/gESRw0zrehhy...
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The hurl was ours: why Belfast’s politicians need to do more than condemn…
Families were burned out of their homes in Belfast this week in openly racist violence. But Sara Morrison, who has lived in Belfast most of her life, argues that what happened on the Newtownards Road ...
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Bitter old bastard
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Not been much sign of flags or painted kerbs in nationalist areas for a longtime. Loyalist areas however yes. At this time of year they like to festoon mixed areas that were once predominantly Loyalist like Ormeau Road with vast table cloth sized flags to wind up the taigs and the Alliance voters.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
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LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
YouTube video by MS NOW
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Tonight I light a candle against the darkness of hate, racism and sectarianism. Belfast is a city that I've spent half my life working and socialising inn. Bullocks to the fascists.
Social media stormTogether against hate
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What a load of yankistani pish.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm sorry that you had to spend the time writing this but applaud it. Should be shared widely. Wonder what Jamie would make of it. Maybe BBC could platform him again tomorrow so he can tell us that they who cannot be named up here aren't behind it anything as they're so busy transitioning.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/06/2026
There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Over the past year, my 850-page Trump-Epstein Scandal epic PROOF OF DEVILRY—whose chapters get released as I have material to release—established that Trump took charge of hosting parties where girls were trafficked. 24 hours ago this bombshell dropped:
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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We’ve been asked by a few to provide some resources on where people can help out or get help. This won’t be an extensive list & we have probably missed some. But hopefully it’s a start! Feel free to drop in the comments any we may have missed. ✊🏻❤️
RACE RIOTS RESPONSE INFORMATION

- SUPPORT SERVICES -
Migrant Centre NI
North West Migrants Forum
Law Centre NI
HAPANI: Horn of Africa People's Aid Northern Ireland
Wave Trauma Centre
Victim Support NI
Counselling All Nations Services
Migrant Workers Union NI
Belfast Soup Kitchen
The People's Kitchen
South Belfast Foodbank
Larder Foodbank The Trussel Trust
The Salvation Army

Details available on social media & Google


- FUNDRAISERS -

Anaka Womens Collective are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised.
gofundme

A GoFundMe setup to help a family business in Ballyclare damaged due to attacks

Links available in our stories/ comment sections /threads
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There last few weeks shows how deeply principled and decent people can be, even when going through the most terrible pain. Their grace stands in stark contrast to those who would exploit their suffering for political gain.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
"party of law and order" 🔹Lockhart stood with masked xenophobes on Saturday and later accused the police of causing the problem. 🔹LINO Robinson defended her on Monday. 🔹Robinson was nowhere to be seen in his constituency on the day of the riots, or today, where most trouble occurred.
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WestScot @westscot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This says it all, really
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
All buses are stopping in Belfast after 5pm and no trains after 6pm. Get yourself home folks.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Was going to Seamus Heaney Centre tonight to hear Andy White but got cancelled. He released Religious Persuasion in 1985 and it could have been written for days like this. youtu.be/nZCO0W05nCU?...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026
Sammy Wilson lying in the House of Commons, saying that illegal immigrants are the root of our problems but they are taken by the hand by the government and given what they need. Imagine saying people who arrived 5 minutes ago are the root of Northern Ireland's problems.
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glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
And Natalie McNally's brother has condemned the violence.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/195pwA9Kvu/
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