Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 01/10/202615% of children are growing up in poverty in Northern Ireland and thousands of households are struggling with the cost of living. Yet a group of ageing men demand the right to march down a road which they know will be contentious. It has already cost £3 million in policing. Wise up! 021
Reposted by Paddy HillyardClaire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures 12268118
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Pat Finucane Inquiry heard today that it will investigate "the extent to which his killers were encouraged, assisted, protected or directed by the British state". It will also consider the role of state agents in MI5's counter insurgency strategy. For more details see my book: Decades of Deceit 0166
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPaul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/11/u... #Cryosphere #Glaciers #Thwaites #Antarctica #SeaIce #IceShelves #OceanHeat #Currents #Albedo #DestructiveWinds #ExtremeWeather #LandIce #IceSheets #TippingPoints #SeaLevelRise #HumanDisplacement #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarmingcounterpunch.orgUp-Close: The World’s Most Terrifying Glacier“Thwaites demise is inevitable” (Inside Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier, PBS, August 19th, 2026). Aboard the South Korean icebreaker Araon: “This is 111
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Farage asked the young woman being violently assaulted at his party conference what she was studying. 'Tell us love, is it sociology?' He is obviously afraid that sociology can provide an explanation for the rise of fascism. 010
Reposted by Paddy HillyardRobert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 10/09/2026www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comIs Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George MonbiotClimate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 001
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026After the Nepal disaster will there be similar disasters in the Alps as glaciers and permafrost melt? In 1987, after heavy rain the mountain collapsed in Valdisotto, cutting off the valley. The avalanche buried some villages. The rock dammed the river, creating a lake that threatened downstream. 010
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A great family occasion. Lammas Fair Ballycastle Firework Display. 020
Reposted by Paddy HillyardDr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026paulddf.substack.com/p/who-killed... This is well worth readingpaulddf.substack.comWho Killed Jason Arday?Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British a... 001
Reposted by Paddy HillyardProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/08/2026Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! As of August 5th, global sea-surface temperatures just set a new preliminary record high of 21.20°C. This breaks the previous record high of 21.17°C set on April 24, 2024. And yes, I had to extend the y-axis to plot this. 34606317
Reposted by Paddy HillyardJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis. 61931260
Reposted by Paddy HillyardJohn Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Really worth a listen 0166
Reposted by Paddy HillyardMedia Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4. 99369
Reposted by Paddy HillyardRichard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Andy Burnham will fail unless he breaks the economic rules youtu.be/XtZ1gc6_fDQ?... But will he? Or will we get more of the same?youtu.beAndy Burnham will fail unless he breaks the economic rulesYouTube video by Richard J Murphy 78029
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 11/07/2026MI5’s secret counterinsurgency strategy which allowed agents to commit murder with impunity will cost British government £10m in payments to relatives killed by the IRA nutting Squad. A number of state agents were involved in the killings including Scappaticci. ereader.irishnews.com/2026/07/10/b... 010
Reposted by Paddy HillyardThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/07/2026The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiottheguardian.comThe great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George MonbiotThere are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 106434
Reposted by Paddy HillyardMargaret Ward @marg50.bsky.social · 22/06/2026At last. Justice for two very brave women. We now need our society and all institutions to look again at how it can meaningfully respect and protect girls and women and listen to them when they speak up. We believe them. 03511
Reposted by Paddy HillyardThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/06/2026You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertsontheguardian.comYou may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey RobertsonThe jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC 98941
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Launched tonight in No Alibis. Ware shows in a meticulous analysis how the NCND dogma was used to cover up the impact of MI5’s 1981 counterinsurgency strategy in which state agents were allowed to murder and we’re protected, corrupting the rule of law and the administration of justice. 031
Reposted by Paddy HillyardColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 10/06/2026When you get an emergency school closure message and have to sprint at the end of giving parliamentary evidence to find the children, you know you live in what should not be normal times. My heart in the last twenty minutes of that committee session. Wired. 1366
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Finucane family’s barrister in his opening statement to the inquiry said his death: ‘was catastrophic for the rule of law. The undoing of law, and the traducing of democracy, came not from below, from lawless and disaffected groups, but from above - from the State, its agencies and its agents.’ 195
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Pat Finucane inquiry opened today. It will explore the role of state agents involved in his murder. Ironically, they were drawn from the loyalist communities, the same communities who created mayhem last night. The ‘legalised lawlessness’ of the past continues to have consequences today. 043
Reposted by Paddy HillyardECIU @eciu.net · 27/05/2026Net zero is more than the only credible way to tackle climate change. It's also a boost to economic growth: high skill, highly productive, higher pay jobs, the majority (90%) small and medium Scottish businesses. @jessralston.bsky.social asks: "Can clean industies scale up faster to meet demand?" 1175
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026‘Legalised lawlessness’ (Elkins, 2022) in Ireland continues. How MI5’s 1981 deadly agent strategy was secretly put beyond the rule of law. ‘UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings’ The Guardian: share.google/xBvGAo05uHgy...share.googleUK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killingsRevelation that policing and state agency figures were in secret policymaking group angers victims’ groups 001
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor in 1989, which involved paid state agents, will open on June 10. It should, at last, shed light on MI5’s agent strategy and the British state’s deadly role in the conflict. For more, see my book: Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy 0118
Reposted by Paddy HillyardColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 14/05/2026My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...ukconstitutionallaw.orgColin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant… 24228
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"This first phase of the Monarch Compute Campus will be a 2.16-gigawatt natural gas-fired off-grid facility. It will rely on 864 reciprocating internal combustion engines and associated equipment. Another 120 engines six burning natural gas and the others using diesel fuel for other uses."wvgazettemail.comPoint Pleasant data center: 3 buildings, nearly 1,000 natural gas, diesel enginesDevelopers of the proposed data center along W.Va. 62 north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, have submitted their application for a construction permit to the West Virgnia Department of Environmental... 148631
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Based on the specs for the Caterpillar G3615B, 864 of these machines would emit up to 9.15 MMTCO2e per year. There doesn't account for the 120 gas & diesel backup gens or the additional phases of this project. When fully developed, this data center could emit 25.55 MMTCO2e annually.fastcompany.comOne Microsoft data center in West Virginia could raise the company's emissions 44%: reportMicrosoft’s use of 1.35 gigawatts of processing power in West Virginia will be entirely powered by emissions-producing natural gas. 55024
Reposted by Paddy HillyardColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 01/05/2026That there is no deep push back or outrage over this just speaks to how profoundly NI is othered in GB politics. There are no votes in it. There's only forget and move on. share.google/PbXA5GOlxyQO...share.googleKemi Badenoch criticised over use of Bloody Sunday footageThe footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday appeared in a Conservative Party video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act. 78026
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/04/2026March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. to.pbs.org/3Ogo4AXto.pbs.orgThe U.S. smashed heat records in March. Just wait for El Niño this summerMarch’s persistent heat was unseasonably intense, and the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El Niño will reach superstrength. 10239111
Reposted by Paddy HillyardOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/04/2026EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”. 284103612496
Reposted by Paddy HillyardJohn @j-m-moore.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Is the Empire coming home? This 2014 paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and the increased use of incarceration in the British state, incorporating colonial experiences into the discourse. It contends that current punitive measures are not a new phenomenon but rather a…jmmoore.orgIs the Empire coming home?This 2014 paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and the increased use of incarceration in the British state, incorporating colonial experiences into the discourse. It contends that current punitive measures are not a new phenomenon but rather a continuation of historical strategies rooted in colonial practices, impacting marginalized populations today. 111
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/01/2026UK child poverty up 34% in a decade. Families can't afford the cost of food, rent, childcare, heating, essentials. 72% of poor children live in working families. Secure jobs, universal basic income/services, curbs on profiteering, free school meals would help. Must eradicate parental poverty.bigissue.comWhy are four million children still going hungry in the UK in 2026?Hunger in the UK is the scourge that ceases to abate. It's time to build a road map to meaningful and lasting change. 23325189
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026So much talk about Ireland (and EU) dependency on the US but so little examination of what that means in material terms. Investing in LNG does not just hasten climate disaster but deepens Ireland's (and the EU's) dependence on the US. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...irishtimes.comLNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuelsMartin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland 0167
Reposted by Paddy HillyardBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Grok is so much worse than you think. 8149542423
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPaul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 08/01/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #ClimateCriminals #ClimateNuremberg #FollowTheMoney #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Ecocide #Genocide #Omnicide #MediaAsGenocidalCorporateFascism #AusPol #Auspol2026 #TheyKnew #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarmingtheguardian.comOutrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisationsExperts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups 284
Reposted by Paddy HillyardJill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11/01/2026This, I believe, sums up exactly what we, & the Americans we know & love, are thinking. Why isn't Congress supporting their own people? 21312
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026ICE faced ‘an act of domestic terrorism’ in Minneapolis’ and in UK over 1000 peaceful protestors arrested under terrorism law. Humpty Dumpty Madness! “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean.” See my arguments against the use of the word: What Is Terrorism? | Cato Unbound 010
Reposted by Paddy HillyardProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 05/01/2026🚨🧵on Venezuela While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see. I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions... 1/11 17353210
Reposted by Paddy HillyardJon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025This is madness. Freezing offshore wind projects in progress will waste money, cost jobs, make electricity less reliable and more expensive, and will cause health harms given that fossil fuels will be used instead. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...politico.comInterior pauses construction of all offshore wind projects, citing national security concernsThe halts of five projects is a major ramp up of the administration's hostility toward the industry in the United States. 69943
Reposted by Paddy HillyardProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 30/12/2025THIS is climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...theguardian.comIceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recordedMeteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east 38332
Reposted by Paddy HillyardWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Georgetown’s removal of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese comes after relentless pressure aimed at silencing voices consistently standing with Palestinians under occupation. This is a dangerous precedent for academic freedom and human rights advocacy. 26035
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025UK Supreme Court Thompson decision will lead to further cover-up of killings by state agents in the conflict in N. Ireland. Shockingly, just 4 are now known to have been involved in over 160 murders in MI5’s secret policy of running agents without a legal framework. See my book: Decades of Deceit. 020
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025I had to re-read this a few times because it is hard to believe. Demand from proposed new data centres might be as high as 5.8GW, equivalent to *peak electricity demand for the entire country*. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...irishtimes.comNew data centres may need additional electricity supply close to Ireland’s peak demandExpected new demand for data centres of 5.8GW would exceed Ireland’s 2030 offshore wind target of 5GW 104724
Reposted by Paddy HillyardMike Tomlinson @miketqub.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Fiduciary Duty out the window then. 011
Reposted by Paddy HillyardThomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025On BBC Radio Wales after 6pm talking about the Kenova report 042
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Kenova Report notes that MI5 tried to cover up truth over 'Stakeknife' spy in IRA. For background detail see my Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy. 041
Reposted by Paddy HillyardPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs. Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise. Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits. Privatisation facilitates rip off practicesindependent.co.ukReeves’ cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs, ex-Labour donor claimsDale Vince’s claims over the impact of paying for Sizewell C on energy bills is one of a number of hidden costs which could see consumers pay higher bills - instead of £150 less 11205100