“Even if it has two more decades to grow, Bluesky will probably never become as influential as Twitter once was. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.” This is good, by @roisinlanigan.bsky.social, about Twitter and BlueSky. observer.co.uk/news/science...
The rise and fall of Twitter | The Observer
The social network founded 20 years ago brought us community, the ‘Twitter revolution’ and #MeToo. But it is now defined by bots, algorithms and Elon Musk’s disastrous takeover
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"Riding the ‘cock carousel’ can induce depression about the state of men and the world." Read @roisinlanigan.bsky.social full review of Zoe Strimpel's "Good Slut". https://bit.ly/4aYbU7d
The problem with the Good Slut manifesto | The Observer
Zoe Strimpel believes that the patriarchy is in retreat and women have never had it so good. Current events might suggest otherwise
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what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
How to be happy in England
A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?
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Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England". But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports: dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt" dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...
The Warhammer capital of the world
Nottingham has a new export • From coal mines to Games Workshop • Even the Freemasons have noticed
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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@theobserveruk.bsky.social column this week is about the new frontier of aspirational parenting: being performatively crunchy observer.co.uk/news/columni...
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen. After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
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Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
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Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home. www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
Titanic Street Preachers
JESUS SAVES FROM HELL
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Labour's decline in support is remarkable. Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
wrote this for @irishnews.com today www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...
As Kneecap’s Mo Chara returns to court, and hundreds are arrested at Palestine protests, there is something rotten here in England
Belfast-born journalist and novelist Róisín Lanigan reports from London as the British government increasingly turns to terror laws to clamp down on dissent over Palestine
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wrote this for @irishnews.com today www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...
As Kneecap’s Mo Chara returns to court, and hundreds are arrested at Palestine protests, there is something rotten here in England
Belfast-born journalist and novelist Róisín Lanigan reports from London as the British government increasingly turns to terror laws to clamp down on dissent over Palestine
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Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm. Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
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I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
Money's No Object #8: Róisín Lanigan
Money's No Object · Episode
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A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
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We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars! While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts. One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
The forgotten founder of the EDL
Paul Ray lit the fuse • Then disappeared • From Luton to Ukraine
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Putting the 'sham' in shamrock: @roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic observer.co.uk/news/columni...
‘Cool Eire’ puts the sham in shamrock | The Observer
All of a sudden, it’s cool to be Irish – but only if you talk about Ireland in a certain way
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What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
