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I would like it put on record that I fucking hate this tiny bastard of a roundabout. Look how many pedestrian crossings there are, who designed this shit? Pedestrians hate it, too. You need about half an hour to get through this at rush hour.

five exits around a very small roundabout, four of them have a pedestrian crossing about 10 feet from the end of the road. The one without is the entrance to a major college

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When I say the north of Ireland has been dealing with the 'flag issue' for a a long time, this is from 1881

ORANGE REGALIA.

NORTH OF IRELAND WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL ORANGE REPOSITORY.

NATHANIEL DANE & CO.,
31, YORK STREET, BELFAST.

WE ARE NOW ENGAGED PAINTING
those historic scenes so highly commemorative of the principles of our Loyal Institution, so that we shall be ready at any moment to supply the brethren all over the globe with our celebrated Flags from £4 15s up; guaranteed not to crack.

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Happened at the same time as Jack the Ripper, has never been solved. The woman was believed to be around 24 but they don't know who she was. Had never heard of this.

OCTOBER 3, 1888.

THE WHITECHAPEL
TRAGEDIES.

ANOTHER MURDER AND
MUTILATION.

LONDON, TUESDAY.—The Central News learns that there was found in a recess of the foundations of the new police offices, Thames Embankment, the trunk of a female much decomposed, minus head, arms, and legs, tightly bound by a cord and wrapped in some kind of cloth. It is now at the Mortuary, Millbank Street. Dr. Bond, divisional surgeon, has made a preliminary examination. It has been suggested that the two arms recently found near Pimlico may belong to the trunk. The discovery was made by a man in the employ of the builder who has secured the contract for the erection of the new police headquarters upon the site of the abortive National Opera House speculation. The man had occasion to go into a vaulted cellar which was built by the contractor for the “Opera House” some years ago. He was first startled by the horrible stench which filled the place, and which caused him to look around to see whence it came. To his horror he saw a large mass of decomposed flesh, which on closer observation proved to be the headless, armless, legless trunk of a female.

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Front page of the Telegraph

Screens may harm children more than poverty
The Daily Telegraph29 Sep 2026By Laura Donnelly HEALTH EDITOR

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"medieval monarch" wise the fuck up

Belfast Telegraph, Sam McBride - ‘O’neill’s behaving like medieval monarch, flouting courts she is bound to respect’
O’neill’s view of her power akin to that of Richard Nixon, and has profoundly disturbing implications in other areas
Belfast Telegraph
Sam Mcbride
29 Sep 2026

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What has happened in Portadown over the last 48 hours has ramifications which will echo for years because Michelle O’neill has shown an understanding of constitutional law, which is closer to that of a medieval monarch than a democratic government minister.

What she has done will be wildly popular among many Sinn Féin supporters, but the First Minister has brought that popularity at the cost of fundamental principles which exist to protect the wider public good in a civilised society.

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"Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night." [Times]

Ireland accuse Israel fans of racist abuse
Paul Rowan - Irish Football Correspondent, Debrecen

Idah was the subject of chants by the Israel fans
Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night.

According to a Football Association of Ireland (FAI) spokesman, Jayson Molumby heard the chants before halftime and the midfielder asked the German referee, Harms Osmers, and the fourth official, Florian Exner, to “listen”.

Because Uefa’s protocol in that situation is to say the word “racism”, European football’s governing body said that no immediate action — such as a warning over the PA system — was taken.

However, the FAI has now said that it will go through the footage to find out if there is any evidence of the alleged abuse and, if so, demand a Uefa investigation into the treatment of Idah, 25, who plays for Swansea City.

There were also reports of confrontations in the tunnel between players, with the Israel captain, Manor Solomon, taking exception to what some Irish players were saying and the opposition bowing their heads during the Israeli national anthem.

In an angry rant after the game, Solomon vowed to get “revenge” on Ireland when the teams meet again on Sunday.

“They said nonsense [to us] during the game, I don’t want to talk about them,” Solomon said. “If I say what I think about them, I’ll probably be banned for a few games so I don’t want to say. Of course they hate us and we don’t like them. I’m already looking forward to the next game against them. What they did with the anthem? I’m not interested in them, we have a country that is ten times better than theirs, stronger, an amazing country with amazing people.

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Unsolvable mystery on the front page of today's Times

The fairer sex? Men feel happier about their looks than women
Rhys Blakely - Science Editor
Men do not, in general, have a reputation for lingering in front of the mirror. Perhaps they do not need to: new research suggests they are happier than women about what they see in it.

Two studies involving more than 1,000 people asked participants to score their own looks on a scale from zero to 100. Men scored themselves, on average, between 6 and 8 per cent higher than women.

Sex was not the only dividing line.

Britons rated themselves less attractive than Americans, Australians, Canadians and South Africans. The researchers suggested in the journal Evolutionary Psychology that British modesty may help explain the gap. People who scored better on a cognitive ability test also tended to rate themselves as less attractive. By contrast optimists, religious people and those with left-leaning political views tended to give themselves higher marks for physical appeal.

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This stupid cunt is never right about anything, but at least he's still taking a break from attacking women

Acts of performative nonsense leave Ireland open to ridicule

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"Banter" First line: A senior Northern Ireland nurse who humiliated a junior female colleague by pulling down her scrub trousers has been struck off. He was also convicted of sexual assault but that was quashed on appeal and he was convicted of common assault.

Senior nurse struck off for humiliating colleague in ‘a bit of banter’

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Paul Givan (DUP) is at it again [Belfast Telegraph]

Body receiving £25m from department is sidelined from curriculum report - CCEA is removed from role with extra money spent on consultants - The Education Minister has been accused of seeking a “pre-determined outcome” to the reform of Northern Ireland’s school curriculum after it emerged that a body funded by the department to the tune of £25m last year was “removed” from working groups.

CCEA has confirmed that curriculum expertise is “central to its statutory role” after the Belfast Telegraph reported that its officers had been removed from working groups tasked with reforming the curriculum here.

The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) is Northern Ireland’s official awarding body, responsible for curriculum development, examinations and assessment across schools and colleges.

The matter came to light when academic William Kitchen told a BBC Radio Ulster Show that CCEA had a seat at the table and “they messed up” as “they didn’t read the script”.

Mr Kitchen claimed CCEA officials “weren’t even necessarily making valuable contributions to the actual process itself, so they were removed.”

Acting deputy secretary Suzanne Kingon was challenged when she appeared before Stormont’s education committee and said she could not speak for Dr Kitchen, but from the department’s perspective “a decision was taken that CCEA were not going to be on the subject working groups”.

CCEA accounts show it received more than £25.4m from the Department of Education to fulfil this role in 2024/25, and similar amounts in 2023/24 and 2022/23.

When asked about comments made at the committe e meeting, CCEA clearly stated: “Curriculum expertise is central to CCEA’S statutory role, and we remain committed to supporting the Department of Education and the wider education system in developing curriculum, examination and assessment arrangements that work well for pupils, teachers and schools in Northern Ireland.”

A spokesperson added: “CCEA is closely involved at a s…

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Gonna party like it's 1998...

Belfast Telegraph front page STANDOFF featuring an image of Drumcree church, unmasked residents linking arms to block the road, and a small inset of Michelle O'Neill

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Private Eye on Marina Hyde leaving the Guardian and the JK Rowling comment

Hyde out
MIXED emotions at the Guardian over the departure of Marina Hyde, the long-serving acerbic columnist who is off to pastures new (but remains coy so far about where they might be).
Hyde has enjoyed enormous success with the ever-expanding Rest Is Entertainment podcast she has hosted for Goalhanger with Richard Osman for the past three years, including considerable financial rewards from the hostage video-style adverts the pair voice during the show. She has previously complained to colleagues that her request to take a similar cut from a proposed in-house podcast series for the Guardian itself had been rebuffed by bosses, which led her to seek her fortune elsewhere.
With exquisite timing, Hyde handed in her notice just as the Guardian devoted the cover and five pages of its Saturday magazine to plugging her new book, a collection of columns published by the imprint the paper co-owns with Faber. By way of a hand grenade lobbed over her shoulder into the bear pit of pro- and anti-trans sensitivities that is the Guardian office, Hyde used her exit interview to respond to a reader question, “Who would you pick as prime minister?”: “JK Rowling.”

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Come on, this is pretty standard for any world leader, except Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak stands in the rain at the podium outside Number 10, he is drenched

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"the wee bin boy" for those who don't know is Jamie Bryson

Jamie Bryson, a loyalist mouthpiece, stands on top of a wheelie bin because he's tiny. Hooded and masked men hold the blue bin in place as he talks shite while imagining he is a great statesman when he's really just a fucknut from Donaghadee

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026

Oliver Brown has taken a break from attacking women in the sports pages of the Telegraph, his favourite thing, to have a go at the Irish

Oliver Brown Irish guilty of downright hypocrisy

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My brain is convinced I must be forgetting something obvious but they really don't protest outside police stations here. Then again, our police stations are a little different from police stations in the rest of the UK...

Donegall Pass police station, a large white wall with high caging on top and a yellow concrete box jutting out over the pavement

Lisburn Road police station, the min entrance jas a large metal cage around it while the station is protected by a large brick wall about 20ft high

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026

So it's only Belfast where you have to do six weeks jury duty? Mine started on 24 August and still has another week to go ffs

Antrim Court Office
Juror Panel Number Date
Jury Service attendance detail

Juryline: 0800 032 7080 (venue code 01)

1 to 320 24 Sep
Antrim Crown Court Jurors whose panel numbers are from 1 to 320 inclusive and commenced their jury service on Tuesday 1st September 2026 and Wednesday 2nd September 2026 have now completed their Jury Service and should submit their completed expenses form to the Customer Service Centre, PO Box 256, Londonderry BT48 4AP.

Thank you for completing your Jury Service.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026

PETA just emailed me about the Big Fish. I will lick the Big Fish if this is allowed to go ahead. What a nonsense.

As you admire this salmon, spare a though for the millions who are confined and killed on fish farms each year. Please choose kindness. Go vegan.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026

Another day, another cis male coach abusing children [Belfast Telegraph] Don't hold your breath waiting for any of the 'protect our girls' crowd condemning this. They don't even condemn it when it happens to people they know.

Former youth football coach facing prison term for child sex offences
Belfast Telegraph23 Sep 2026CHRISTOPHER WOODHOUSE
A former youth football coach from Co Down has pleaded guilty to a string of child sex offences.

Paul Allen faced 18 charges, including sex assault, attempted sexual assault and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The offences are dated between January 2020 and February 2024 and involve two complainants.

Allen (38), who has an address in Dundonald, stood in the dock of Downpatrick Crown Court where he was formally re-arraigned.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/09/2026

"FORMER BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with two more sexual offences, police said yesterday." [Mail]

DJ Westwood faces 2 more sex charges
Daily Mail23 Sep 2026
FORMER BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with two more sexual offences, police said yesterday.

The 68-year-old has been charged with indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 to 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, south-west London, in 1991.

He is also accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth in 2004.

Westwood has already been charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault – all of which he denies. It means he now faces a total of 17 charges against nine women.

Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy from the Metropolitan Police said the force was ‘committed’ to offering Westwood’s accusers ‘all available support’. Westwood will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court at a future date over the additional charges.

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Telegraph, same page as above Helen Joyce, Sex Matters quoted

Row over Cambridge gender-neutral toilets
The Daily Telegraph22 Sep 2026By Tom Jeffreys
A CAMBRIDGE college has been accused of ignoring new guidance on single-sex spaces by giving toilets the gender-neutral labels of “cubicles” and “cubicles/urinals”.

The signage at King’s College follows a recommendation by a campus LGBT+ group. It has led to accusations that the college is ignoring new guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission which states that organisations must provide access to single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex rather than gender identity.

The new guidance follows a Supreme Court ruling last year that transgender women are not legally women under equalities law.

A college alumna said the signs near the main college bar were putting women off using the lavatories with queuing for disabled facilities instead.

The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, accused the college of “caving into activists” and providing a “hostile environment for people who believe in biological sex.”

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Telegraph. Zoe Hollowood, Liberal Voice for Women quoted.

Lib Dems vote to let trans women into female loos
‘Massive act of self-harm shows party doesn’t care about women,’ say angry gender-critical members

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This is how the Telegraph cover the above story

Officer said she knew the law ‘then broke it’
The Daily Telegraph22 Sep 2026
A female police officer told another woman “I know the law” before allegedly sexually assaulting her, a court heard.

Pc Fiona Anderson, of Devon and Cornwall Police, is on trial accused of two counts of sexual assault alleged to have taken place in 2018 in Cardiff.

Prosecutors told the court that Pc Anderson had performed oral sex on a woman without consent.

The alleged victim told her: “I don’t want to have sex with you” while Pc Anderson persisted, the jury heard.

Opening the trial at Bristol Crown Court on Monday, Emma Martin, the prosecutor, said Pc Anderson, from Exeter had been described as “disgustingly drunk”.

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"THE Left’s obsessive focus on trans rights continues to be an insult to women everywhere." "Imagine the outcry if the political Right attempted to overturn the law in such a nakedly political manner." [Mail]

An attack on women
Daily Mail22 Sep 2026
THE Left’s obsessive focus on trans rights continues to be an insult to women everywhere.

The Greens and now the Lib Dems have set out how they aim to rewrite Britain’s equality laws.

Their goal is to up-end the Supreme Court’s ruling last year that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

Bumbling Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey even said he would support the motion at his party’s annual conference, and it was later backed by members.

The liberal Left’s effrontery on this issue stems from the same dictatorial approach they have repeatedly demonstrated towards Brexit.

‘This is not what we wanted, so it should be annulled,’ they assert, rather than accepting they have conclusively lost an argument.

Imagine the outcry if the political Right attempted to overturn the law in such a nakedly political manner.

But with these trans debates at the Lib Dem conference, and similar moves set to be discussed by the Greens next week, both parties have exposed the unpalatable truth.

They have shown their contempt for the rule of law is matched only by their derision for the rights of women.

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Somebody get that man his drink!

Mail - Pour me a hemlock martini. The cliches at this Lib Dem conference give you early-onset rigor mortis
Daily Mail22 Sep 2026by QUENTIN LETTS

ONE newspaper claimed there are 5,000 Lib Dems in Brighton for their conference. Are these hordes in the pubs? Playing fruit machines on the pier? Sunning themselves at the nudie beach? They certainly weren’t jamming the conference hall for day three of a ruthlessly bland affair. Attendance was on a par with a church fete.

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The is about the Lib Dem conference and them voting to reject the EHRC guidance [Mail]

‘Unholy alliance’ on the Left is accused of plotting to undermine women’s rights

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