Mike McLean

Christian. Husband. Worship team member.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

Conservatives: what a brand! The unethical party of law-breaking and disorder which accepts funding from a hostile state, siphons public money to its mates, and suppresses or rewrites reports it doesn’t like (that is, all of them). The UK finally hits tinpot nation status.

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"I know what a pain Andys can be..."

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

“Everything costs more and that’s a good thing” is a CRAZY economic message from the White House

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Diablo This is shit. And the last time I pre-order anything from you.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Diablo I’ll be using my aggression to cancel everything Blizzard. This is the worst start to a season, ever. At least with the delayed Vampire one you had the sense to put a message out, delay it, and (eventually) get it right. This is shit.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Diablo Except no one can actually log in. Great job, Blizzard.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

Diablo 4: the latest Season is the worst yet. The furthest I’ve got is starting a game and the character was stuck on the starting WP. Nothing responding, even “Leave Game”. This is pathetic. #Daiblo4 #Blizzard

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@_onlyscott Notts County

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@trussliz One would think that you would learnt to remain quiet on such matters, rather than run the risk of reminding us of your utterly risible performance in this field.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@PressSec @WhiteHouse Yes, correct. That’s because he wasn’t the President at the time.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@NoContextBrits A blocked gully

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@BladeoftheS The boat.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK hate these numbers.

Small boat arrivals: last 7 days

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@realDonaldTrump It’s a grift. And you are the most corrupt President of the USA.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This is a real exchange I just had:

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Sigh…..😞

Another day, another wildly misleading Daily Mail headline.

I mean, it certainly would be headline worthy if police had turned up and accused her of committing a crime by writing innocent FB posts.

But that's not what happened…

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[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Conservatives @KemiBadenoch Hilarious. We’ve heard it all before. You’ve had your time.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Otto_English Or perhaps: Barren and OneBall.

[Mike McLean @9MDM9]

@Otto_English Ban ‘em and Ballsack.