gavin hughes

Horse racing mad LFC fan, distinct dislike for the Portuguese Pulis

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

@andyverity Great thread but it's fairly obvious that everything the Tory party do is intentionally aimed at making the corps richer and they don't give 2 hoots for poorer households so to that end they are going a great job. They don't care for the economy either but must look like they do.

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

@DrNeilStone Who dont ypu fook right off on both scores 'doctor' you absolute weapon

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

فضيحة تاريخية يجب أن يشاهدها العالم أجمع

الوزير الإسرائيلي يُخاطب الجنود الإسرائيليين قبل دخولهم غزة قائلاً: "أمسكوا بالأطفال الرضع في غزة وحطموا رؤوسهم على الصخور"

[Jason Lambert @Jasonlamb76]

BRITISH STATE COLLUSION.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Oxfam warns Israel is ‘deploying the Gaza genocide playbook’ in Lebanon and says its analysis ‘shows Israeli forces are also destroying water and sanitation infrastructure – including strikes near sites that were being rehabilitated after having been destroyed or damaged in the last war’

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

Seems people are infinitely more outraged when empty ambulances were attacked, than when dozens of hospitals full of people were blown to smithereens by the very same people who now have the brass neck to be apoplectic with rage? Sums the state of this country up

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

“Based on what Jared Kushner told me, I thought Iran would attack us.”

Not his intelligence agencies. His fucking son-in-law.
Video credit ~ @PamphletsY

[The Epstein Files @TheEpsteinFiles]

The more that comes out, the more you start to wonder if we even know the half of how sick these people are.

Harvard professor Martin Nowak emailed Ghislaine in 2002 to thank her for her hospitality.

Then out of nowhere: “i am so happy that i did not kill anybody.”

[Dede Watson @Dede_Watson]

@cspan @tedlieu @RepTedLieu And we have this very compelling document!

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

“My message to you is clear, plain, and simple. Never trust a Tory. Did you get that? I’ll repeat it. Never trust a Tory. They will always let you down, they will always betray you, Reform UK are the real deal.”

Farage has welcomed 26 current or former Tory MPs to Reform.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Killing peaceful protesters to distract from Trump raping 13-year-old girls is so 2026.

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

@eddiegibbs What absolute tosh. You assume that the club then have passed him over on choice and have a plan? Wake up. Left sucking our thumb while we fall further and further off the pace, and of course zero plan given we have 2 cbs and one of them leaving. We need at least 2 ffs and a 6

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Arsenal sacked a long-serving kit-man over his pro-Palestine posts. Now they’ve signed a commercial deal with an Israeli-American company that operates in occupied Palestinian land.

Cowards on and off the pitch.

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Another day, another British atrocity. Today marks the anniversary of the Rathcormac massacre in Cork, 1834. The spectre of Famine was beginning to lower itself over Ireland like a dark curtain. Long before the blight, the poor were hungry. Peasants were crushed by debt to absentee British landlords who rarely, if ever, set foot on the land. Yet despite this grinding poverty, Ireland’s Catholic majority was still forced to pay tithe to the Protestant Church of Ireland.

This tax amounted to roughly one-tenth of agricultural produce, extracted from subsistence farms that were already hovering on the edge of starvation. Worse still, the land from which this produce came had once been Catholic land, seized during plantation and conquest. A people stripped of land were now compelled to financially support the church of their conquerors.

The tithe was traditionally paid in kind, livestock, grain, produce, but in the early 1830s the British administration decided cash would be more convenient. For people who rarely saw money at all, this was not merely punitive, it was impossible. What followed was labelled the Tithe War.

In truth, it was less a war than an act of collective desperation.The people simply stopped paying. Not out of ideology, not out of sedition, but because they physically had nothing left to give. In December 1834, that desperation collided with power in a small village called Gortroe, near Rathcormac, County Cork. The man demanding payment was Archdeacon William Ryder, a senior clergyman of the Church of Ireland, fabulously wealthy, impeccably connected, and utterly insulated from the consequences of his authority.

He arrived with a heavily armed escort, a troop of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards on horseback, infantrymen from the 29th Regiment of Foot, and the ever-present Royal Irish Constabulary. Cavalry, bayonets, muskets, and state power, all mobilised to extract money from starving peasants.

It was a pathetic scene. Ragged, underfed families gathering near Bartlemy Cross, clutching crude wooden spades and sods of turf. Women, children, elderly men. Facing them, well-fed soldiers in formation, snorting horses stamping the frozen ground.

Archdeacon Ryder surveyed the villagers and fixed his gaze on one woman in particular, Johanna Ryan, a widow. He demanded her tithe. She replied as Gaeilge. A group of villagers stepped forward and said what everyone already knew. There would be no tithe today. There was nothing to pay.

In response Ryder turned to the officer commanding the escort and issued his instruction. Captain Bagley was ordered to have his men draw bayonets. The villagers scattered, many fleeing into Johanna Ryan’s house, seeking shelter where they could. Ryder, enraged by what he saw as insolence, ordered the house demolished. Soldiers advanced, attempting to batter it down. When the terrified occupants resisted, the officer gave the order that sealed the day’s place in history.

“You must dislodge the peasants from the haggart and the yard. If they do not go quietly, you must try the bayonet. If that is not sufficient, you must fire.” And so they did. Musket fire ripped into the crowd. Bayonets were used. People fell where they stood. Others bled out in fields and doorways. By the end of the day, somewhere between twelve and twenty people lay dead, at least forty-five were wounded, with several more dying later of their injuries.

Archdeacon Ryder returned to his warm house, his income intact, his Christian authority unchallenged. The dead were quietly buried. Rathcormac was not an aberration. It was a system functioning exactly as intended.This was British justice in Ireland.

Men, women, and children killed not for rebellion, not for violence, but for having nothing left to give. Their land had been taken. Their food extracted. Their dignity stripped. When there was nothing more to seize, the state took their lives.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson.

Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. https://t.co/5DqOQp88G8

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

Excellent tipping yet again 👏

[My Little Tip @mylittletip]

🧹 CLEAN SWEEP ON YHE DAY, 3/3 races (4 selections) win

💣 Nap KILIJO wins 11/2
💣 PANIC ATTACK wins 7/1
💣 JULY FLOWER wins 13/8

🥂Have a great weekend 🎯

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

@StevenD1977 @DaleJohnsonBBC Correct mate. Out of all the sky and bbc pundits etc, the only people that have agreed with the decision are Webb and Gallagher. Odd that 🤔 what's the point of these things if they can't be honest

[gavin hughes @01Hughes]

@DaleJohnsonBBC @StevenD1977 He did say he makes an clear and obvious action which clearly impacts the keeper. This is clearly not the case to anyone that knows anything about football

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Raffi Berg, the BBC's online Middle East editor, is suing Owen Jones for publishing an investigation in which numerous BBC whistleblowers accused him of skewing news in Israel’s favour.

Here Berg tells an interviewer that “as a Jewish person and admirer of the state of Israel” he gets “goosebumps” of pride hearing about operations by the Israeli spy agency Mossad.

On the wall behind Berg is a framed letter sent him by Benjamin Netanyahu. He counts at least one former Mossad agent as a close friend.

The BBC strictly demands public neutrality from even lowly news staff. Gary Lineker, who was a football commentator, repeatedly got into hot water for expressing political opinions.

But Berg appears untouchable. He continues to have the full backing of BBC execs, even as he has exposed himself as a fanboy of Israel – his actual area of news responsibility.

There is not even the pretence of objectivity. And yet no one in BBC management cares. What does that tell us?

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️