Cathal Malone

Kids in the Hind Rajab Centre playing football

Children playing in the Hind Rajab Centre

Kids in classes

Kids playing

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A photo of Ripley, my cat, lying across my keyboard preventing me from working.

Thank you, Ripley. That’s enormously helpful.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

“It is naive to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership.

We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.”

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

This is pretty disgraceful.

The Sir Humphrey Appleby school of polling strikes again!

Trafalgar group winning awards for writing the most leading question possible.

Do you remember when video games were the focus of a Republican-led moral panic, because they might lead the kids to become violent and anti-social?

Ah yes, British newspapers - the best possible place to find nuance, depth and context.

Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West

Post-2008 crash Britain has been quite the intensive experiment in seeing how long you can hold back spring by cutting all the flowers, hasn’t it. How much longer will that work for, do we think?

Can he even hear himself?

Denying that the leaked reports are true, while demanding an investigation into the leak?!

Leak from secret UK meeting about US attacks on Iran a travesty, says Lammy | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian share.google/mZ4tjRehW5nE...

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Screen shot of text from the end of an email that reads: If you want, I can also write a much sharper version (still legally safe but far more cutting) that will really land with him and his solicitors.

Pro tip: if you're going to send someone a nonsense letter that you hope uses enough serious sounding "legal" language to be taken seriously, you should probably make sure you delete the bit at the end where ChatGPT offers to write a different version lol

alpha male update /s

Una McGurk canvassed with an actual segregationist who wants to ban interracial relationships during the 2024 locals / Euros

Hard yikes

We're all adults here at this casino, we can call it a shits table

A very sunny photo of the mountains and sea of Tralee bay. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

Good afternoon from the Kingdom ☀️

successive governments of two majority-Muslim countries have been choking the life from a majority-Christian country with the world's oldest national church for almost four decades and guys who never shut up about the persecution of Christians in majority-Muslim countries never mention it. it's mad!

there is something truly fascinating about how the illegal Turkish-Azeri blockade of Armenia – ongoing since 1989 for Azerbaijan, 1993 for Turkey – isn't the #1 issue in the world among people who make the persecution of Christians abroad their entire personality

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

this shouldn't be outsourced to a private company anyway, but it does not inspire confidence that the rules of the tender appear to have been changed so previously noncompliant bids will succeed

abolish the home office. salt the earth

Quite an opening paragraph.

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

Do you think the people who write these headlines ever read them seconds later and feel like they're on ketamine?

This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there.

But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.