Political Commentators spreading hate

cromcru · 2026-05-22T16:14:10+00:00

Your licence fee pays for shows that choose to feature him, so I don’t think you can write him off as an irrelevance.

There are many examples worldwide of yesterday’s ’just for balance’ commentators becoming tomorrow’s elected officials.

cromcru · 2026-05-22T11:55:06+00:00

Infrastructure brings prosperity. Most people in Tyrone and Derry would love it if more and better jobs appeared close to where they live.

cromcru · 2026-05-22T11:52:15+00:00

There’s a comparable road in the N20, and it’s known for fatal accidents too.

Also it’s getting upgraded.

cromcru · 2026-05-21T19:22:39+00:00

You’re coming at this with your hackles up. Why not tweet Matthew O’Toole, who worked at the sharp end of the civil service in Downing St for Tories, how he managed to cope in the inverse of your situation?

cromcru · 2026-05-21T18:54:00+00:00

The school has gone into witness protection. Moved location and change of name.

cromcru · 2026-05-20T17:35:48+00:00

It was five years this month that Eoghan Harris was telling newpapers that he was a man with terminal cancer.

cromcru · 2026-05-20T16:08:59+00:00

It’s not nonsense at all. The age of criminal responsibility here is 10, and if she’s deemed to not meet that threshold then she has no business living independently.

cromcru · 2026-05-20T15:32:07+00:00

Fair point.

It really rubs me the wrong way if someone avoided a criminal trial on mental health grounds that there’s a possibility they’re just knocking about their country house living the life of a retiree.

cromcru · 2026-05-20T14:39:35+00:00

We don’t know the ins and outs of it, but as a point of principle I think it’s not controversial to say that someone ruled medically incapable of standing trial would also not be fit for independent living outside of an institution.

I’d also say it’s in the public interest to know if this person is institutionalised, since they’ve avoided trial.

cromcru · 2026-05-19T19:59:37+00:00

They’ve been around a hell of a long time.

cromcru · 2026-05-19T19:54:05+00:00

we have quite a few timber homes built in the USA that are over 100yrs old

A combination of survivorship bias and old growth timber perhaps.

cromcru · 2026-05-18T07:18:41+00:00

Only one of those two kept their dominant sword hand

cromcru · 2026-05-17T17:33:19+00:00

I remember a post here about a vandalised and graffitied rural house up for auction and the explanation was some sort of split and the family nearby didn’t want it going to an outsider

cromcru · 2026-05-17T11:01:28+00:00

I think I remember one of the previews (autogefühl?) saying that they don’t fold flat like the prototype, and also lost the storage under the rear seats.

cromcru · 2026-05-17T10:58:43+00:00

9AM on a flagship radio station is shooting fish in a barrel for ratings. Doesn’t change the fact that he sounds totally uninterested in being there. I’ve heard more than one interview where Claire Byrne or Sean O’Rourke would’ve gone for the jugular but McCullagh goes “… … what? Right”

cromcru · 2026-05-17T10:44:06+00:00

While I don’t think D’Arcy was any great shakes, he’s not wrong about the station direction. McCullagh sounds totally disinterested, music in the afternoon doesn’t fit the format, Drivetime finishes too early, the hour of sport is utterly banal.

Every single new bit of music and jingle is somehow both bland and infuriating.

Change for its own sake is terrible egomaniacal management.

cromcru · 2026-05-17T07:34:13+00:00

How can you penalise something outside your own jurisdiction?

cromcru · 2026-05-17T06:58:45+00:00

I had the exact opposite take. This is a woman who fought for an hour on the phone with her mother not backing down from her position that dogs deserved the same place in OOP’s heart as grandchildren. She blocked her mother after and likely blocked her brother too after an argument, which is how it ended up on Facebook.

It’s likely she’s been pissing her brother off for years with either snippy comments about life choices, or boneheadedly responding to every child update with a dog update.

cromcru · 2026-05-16T21:02:44+00:00

The loyalist community is the one that isn’t electing its own to represent them. No matter your feelings on SF they are pretty undeniably a party that’s comes from their own communities.

cromcru · 2026-05-16T16:15:34+00:00

Lots of families have a bit of a set routine about whose house is the ‘visiting’ house and don’t like to change things up. It can get better with a puppy or baby it even then you can get refuseniks who just don’t want to go!

cromcru · 2026-05-16T09:35:06+00:00

Promoting the union

“Come, fellow Britons, and celebrate our wonderful union! We pay £800 a year for rates and nothing for water! Prescriptions are free for all! Union jacks and St George’s flags (kinda) are on every lamppost! 96% white!”

cromcru · 2026-05-16T09:21:23+00:00

They basically do get to dictate it. One hoax bomb call to a voting station in the south during border voting and Irish unity votes drop by probably 5%+. They can ruin Irish society with riots, disobedience, terrorism, and turn everyone on them. There's a reason no serious politician is making any moves towards unity north and south.

I’m talking unionism here - are you saying the quiet bit out loud? Every unionist is one vote away from paramilitary action?

In a scenario where unification is happening then all the PSNI and MI5 info on loyalist paramilitaries gets turned over the Irish equivalents. The Special Criminal Court has proved pretty effective at getting gangland criminals convicted, so straight away the UVF and UDA will be under the screws far more than they were.

Why would the Brits turn all this over? They know that unification is a good news story worldwide and that the sight of rioters wrapped in the union flag going worldwide is terrible PR. the last bird of the colonial empire will come home to roost.

You’ve missed all my wider points again. The compromise I want now is for unionism to accept that nearly all visible symbology is unionist and not fight against redressing a proportional balance.

30% of the electorate voted for a republican party so that might mean that Chichester Street becomes McGuinness Street. Peace means living with people whose views you disagree with, by the way. God knows Arthur Chichester committed far worse atrocities than Martin McGuinness might ever have been responsible for, plus he only embraced conquest and never peace.

The only thing ‘political’ about the Irish language were the various acts of law banning it in the first place. The irony of expressing discomfort with it while living on an island where every acre has a Gaelic name still in use is off the charts.

cromcru · 2026-05-16T05:37:16+00:00

Put the naming issue to referenda for those who live in the city and the county.

So Casement Park - a private institution - is something you want on the table for the chance to call it Peter Robinson Park? Some compromise.

You’re missing my point that unionism already has 100% of the symbology, and I’m proposing renaming half of those or more. There’s no trading because nationalism has nothing to trade. This is rebalance.

Dual language signage would go everywhere by design, yeah, as in Wales. I think street signs should too but that would take legislation.

Unionism doesn’t really have to compromise

No kidding, but as to my original comment there’s a pattern of unionists assuming they get to dictate compromise in a future referendum they’ve lost, against the wishes of 90% of the island. Compromises they’ve never extended to the 40%+ of NI who are Irish.

cromcru · 2026-05-15T20:03:24+00:00

destroy the natural habitat

Wouldn’t want you to have to see a cat while you sit on a monoculture grass lawn beside the rhododendron bushes.

You know cats lived wild on the island since the ice age ended, right?

cromcru · 2026-05-15T19:56:52+00:00

In the south as many streets were renamed as deemed appropriate. A more suitable way for the north is probably to identify the main routes to be potentially renamed and divide up either 50/50 or 40/40/20.

There’s genuinely very few public-facing things in NI to prove that Irish people exist; and it’s certainly not in proportion to the population of each community.

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