You can hear the full unedited audio of loyalist paramilitaries (unsuccessfully) ordering me out of 'their' area, with film footage shot by the Sky News helicopter capturing part of the incident. These are the people we need to reject - not foreign nurses. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video…

instead of winter depression does anyone get summer depression and the heat drives you even more crazy

Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…

“Shut up, traitorous appeaser. You will pay the price eventually. Tick f***ing tock.” Online posts this week called for my execution, my home to be burnt down & my kids hurt. The far right want to freeze their critics into silence. They will never win. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…

Posted and then almost instantaneously removed. What the literal hell is this?

What’s one thing that should have disappeared by now but somehow still exists?

Come stand in a shield line

Not gonna lie but Northern Ireland sounds like an absolutely horrible place. And sounds like it’s been an absolutely horrible place for a very, very long time.

You've managed to kick start the IRA and unite them with Loyalists. That should be a red flag for you. You won't listen. Your smug face when you call people racist is no more. You knew nothing would happen to you. How do you feel now? Your tribe is angry. I suggest you listen.

Claire Hanna of the SDLP remarking on how some protests, in her view, are deemed acceptable and others not. I’m old enough to remember the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 being deemed ‘understandable’ by people with left wing politics and the media more widely. Interesting!

Mark Carruthers absolutely slapped down by the DUP’s Jonathan Buckley MLA on @bbctheview last night. Carruthers tried to deflect from some cultures supporting child marriage, stoning etc. The BBC should reflect on his position after his shameful attempt at distraction tactics.

somehow managed to get both the Belfast pogroms in 1920 and the burning of Bombay Street into an 800 word article for the Independent i wanted to make a very clear connection between what we’re seeing happening to ethnic minorities in Belfast and across the six counties with the experiences of our parents and grandparents living under the repressive auspicious of the orange state mostly because I wanted to remind people who might be lured into the traps of racist ideology that our history, and the history of our people, is very much structured by an opposition to those same mechanisms of oppression i knew when all this kicked off that people in West Belfast wouldn’t take the bait, that the anti-colonial, anti-racist politics that runs through the collective consciousness is too firmly ingrained (also fuck the loyalists and their bigotry etc)… but that’s not to say that this can’t change, that the very marginal voices sowing hatred in the community won’t find a foothold (they already have, in all sorts of ways) i basically wrote this article for the people of West Belfast, to reassert our radical opposition to the bigotry and racism that underpins loyalism and make sure that the people who have come here to build lives for themselves know they are not alone, that they won’t be abandoned the way our parents and grandparents were, and that we stand by them in love and solidarity independent.co.uk/voices/bel…

We really need to talk about the continued insistence of sister papers the BelTel and Sunday Life in portraying unionist paramilitaries as both thugs and potential heroes.