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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 51m

The next time I’m suffering from Imposter syndrome, I’ll remember all this and know that I’m less dumb than virtually every politician and media commentator in England.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1h

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be able to buy tickets to Aston Villa match

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be able to buy tickets to their club's match with Aston Villa next month, Sky News understands.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 6h

Make workplace bullying (of people who use these terms) legal again!

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 10h

I suppose when your attitude to the EU is this, anything else is naughty children disrespecting the grown ups.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 10h

Fine Gael has now been in government since 2011, and their attack line is evictions and reposessions?! Are they insane?

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 10h

Fine Gael tripling down with a slight pivot.

Trying to say it’s about “non-disclosure” of her former work rather than her doing it.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 11h

Someone needs to go full Bjørge Lillelien outside the offices of the Indo, Times, and Oirish Mail when Connolly wins.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 11h

Promoting Leahy from pox to scumbag.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · Nov 25

Pat Leahy was probably the first reason that I stopped reading the Irish Times a few years ago. He’s everything wrong with journalism.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 11h

as are, of course, the fine elected representatives of Cumann na nGaedheal

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 12d

Journalists doing the “the barrister represented a bad guy shock horror!” routine are some shitheads.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 13h

Even that sub-heading is a disgrace. "Residents dispute"? No, anyone that isn't a liar or a lunatic knows it's all ludicrous horseshit.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli politicians will be queuing up to call Israeli police antisemites, presumably.

Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 1d

So far Israeli politicians have not stepped in to overrule the police cancelling the Tel Aviv derby on security grounds.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

Only one party is fully supported and armed to the teeth by the largest military machine that has ever existed, which also routinely threatens anyone else who might get in the way.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

Your headline answers your question, lads.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

Normal people look at the failing nations either side of us and their poison media, and think “no thanks”. Our media looks at them like 😍

Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 1d

In the final week of campaigning the Indo decide to go all out on a theme

4 pieces in a row on the Irish Independent website warning of the dangers of Catherine Connolly winning

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson claimed not to know that the goon squads were snatching American citizens - a thing happening in broad daylight on video - but somehow does know who has paid millions of people to take to the streets.

He's not even the problem - it's the pathetic media that can't even pin him.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

being conservative is basically "I got what I have through hard work and being a good person, therefore *they* have not worked hard, are not good people, and have not earned *it*." That's a much easier sell than "we're all in this together, and the common good requires sacrifices from some".

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn’t pretend to know and maybe it doesn’t matter but was that weighted more at the foot soldier / civil servant level? Or were Scots proportionally over represented at the leadership / decision maker levels?

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, of course very true. But ultimately British imperialism is primarily English (led) imperialism.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

The Irish version of that

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

If the Brits are going to insist that any criticism of anything Israeli, no matter the context, is automatically antisemitism, then it’s time to start demanding these people define ‘semitism’.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 3d

Israel represents all Jews, criticising Israel is antisemitism
became the IDF represents all Jews, criticising the IDF is antisemitism
becomes Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans represent all Jews, banning Maccabi football hooligans is anti-semitism.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Starmer condemns decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game on.ft.com/3WdOJia

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

You could say this at any point since Starmer said Israel had the right to cut off water to Gaza, but my fucking god has Britain utterly debased and disgraced itself over Palestine. A nation of irredeemable fuckwits.

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

At the point now where I take enjoyment in seeing a newspaper’s pleas for subs and ignoring them.

Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 3d

Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a terrible decision – and a depressing one | Barney Ronay

The idea that barring the Israeli club’s supporters from Villa Park will de-escalate a volatile situation just doesn’t stand up Well, at least we have Ayoub Khan in the house, Birmingham MP and a voice of tolerance, unity and de-escalation in these difficult times. “Sports entertainment events should be enjoyed by all regardless of their race, ethnicity and background,” Khan wrote on X on Thursday. One hundred per cent this. Heart emoji. Slay, king. This is not just the best part of sport. It’s the only real point. “Now is the time to ease tensions, set aside political difference and focus on the football,” Khan concluded, scattering flowers of all shades, fluttering his fingers to release a cascade of butterflies, and opening his arms to embrace, personally, brothers and sisters of every caste and clime. Continue reading...

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

He understands perfectly. He doesn’t care.

🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

Go raibh maith agat!

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🏁 Daniel 🏁 @danielsexton.bsky.social · 2d

3 birds with a football!

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