James Connolly

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@thejournal_ie Let the people play. A mind numbing boring soccer match isn't that important

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@ThomasPurell The people who want to march to 80s music or the people who believe they have a divine obligation to kill them and die in battle. The diversity hierarchy might be superseded by facts on the ground.

[André Walker @andrejpwalker]

The problem @HantsPolice have got is that their own officers are contacting journalists to say the force is racist!!! Not just one or two. LOADS OF THEM.

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

Only seems a short few years ago you would see this and presume England, France or America and be right, now you presume Ireland and are right

[Maria Patricia éIRe 🇮🇪 @MariaPIreland]

An alleged deportation order merchant is seen busy causing criminal damage to a shop front in Donabate when he is refused entry into the shop in Dublin. He decided to kick his way back in.

Following an arrest, it is alleged that the man has an active deportation order.

[Michael Kyrath @kueksElm]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren des Verfassungsschutzes Sachsen-Anhalt,

Sie stufen mich allen Ernstes als verfassungsfeindlich ein, weil ich meiner am 23.01.2023 in Brokstedt ermordeten 17-jährigen Tochter Ann-Marie gedenke, die durch einen illegal im Land befindlichen, mehrfach vorbestraften, ausreisepflichtigen Palästinenser mit 26 Messerstichen in einem Nahverkehrszug niedergemetzelt wurde...?

Schämen Sie sich nicht einmal ansatzweise unzähligen verwaister Eltern so etwas an den Kopf zu werfen?
Haben Sie nicht einmal mehr einen winzigen Funken Anstand, Empathie und Mitgefühl?

Wenn wir als verwaiste Eltern um unsere Kinder trauern und von Ihnen dafür kriminalisiert werden...
...dann wirft das zwangsläufig die Frage auf, ob jemand solcher Gesinnung noch die Verfassung, oder nur noch die eigene pathologische Ideologie verteidigt und somit für einen solchen Posten untragbar ist!

Und ebenso alle Politiker, die solche Einstufungen von trauernden Eltern schweigend und unkommentiert hinnehmen...schämt Euch!!!
Pfui! Pfui! Pfui!

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@BrianFlanagan1 @mauricejblack It's the breaking of US laws that will concern them

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

A 21-year-old man from Saudi Arabia has shot a lecturer at Surrey University with a crossbow.

The lecturer suffered life-threatening injuries. It’s unclear whether the lecturer was handcuffed before being taken to hospital 🇬🇧🇸🇦

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@RmSalih @GBPolitcs Aren't you gay yourself Roshan?

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@starryplough67 Tosser

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

This is the same group that Zack Polanski’s Greens joined forces with in February.

Does he regret that now, will he condemn them?

[Erik Dale 🇳🇴 @EuroDale]

It has never been officially acknowledged, but it is an open secret that the UK government sends its nudge unit to grieving families after tragedies like this. Their job is to warn the family they will be held responsible for any public reaction and to push statements about unity to shield the authorities.

In Henry Nowak's case, they clearly missed his godmother. She has spoken with raw honesty about the failures that cost her godson his life. Henry's sister Olivia has likewise shared and supported calls for real accountability instead of scripted silence.

A government that uses threats to manage and muzzle a family's grief has lost all moral authority.

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@HkSuperted Pompous

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@StandForCeltic A small number of posh wankers will skip a few games and then reti5

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@IndoSport @ConorMcKn Course we can, let the people play

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@NiohBerg That's not even in doubt

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@JackWPolitics @IanPorton @YorkieYO It is also fair to point out that post 1500s England the current Muslim community are the most homophobic seen

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@JackWPolitics @ChatzSol Is there anything that 5pillars would say that Mothin Ali wouldn't agree with?

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Want some truth?

The Left is not mad about Henry Nowak dying they are mad we found out about Henry Nowak dying.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

It’s not just the PM, every political figure, notable media personality, celebrity, sportsman, influencer—and above all every serving policeman—should now take the knee in public for Novak and much else besides. It is a cost-free gesture of physical rhetoric that might, just might, bleed off some of the explosive tension now building across these islands.

They invented this symbolic act and once urged it on with fanatical insistence. Today they cannot perform it. That inability is the tell.
To take the knee is not a polite nod of respect; it is ideological submission. It was always a rhetorical bludgeon designed to force public signalling of allegiance.

Refuse it and you declare for your tribe; perform it and you declare for the other. Such overt tribal markers only become urgent when people sense the approach of real stakes—when security feels fragile and the ancient business of friend-and-foe calculation begins. We are on the cusp.

Britain’s culture war is no longer a metaphor. It is the prelude and the recruiting sergeant for something uglier. Rotherham, Oldham, Southport; grooming scandals airbrushed for decades; two-tier policing that can no longer be denied; official reports shelved while 2024’s rioters were branded 'far-right' and far larger provocations ignored—these are not isolated failures.

They are symptoms of a profound cleavage over who we are, what our laws still mean, and whose side the state is truly on. When the institutions meant to protect the vulnerable instead shield the predators and gaslight the public, legitimacy begins to haemorrhage.

James Davison Hunter, who popularised the term 'culture war,' feared symbolic struggle would harden into actual conflict. He was right to be afraid. British strategists who still treat this as mere noise—something separate from the 'real' wars that preoccupy them—do disservice to their craft. 

Wars are not always tidy ways-ends-means calculations within the bounded world of soldiers and statesmen. Sometimes they erupt volcanically from below. This is not outside Clausewitz’s trinity; it reveals its terrifying malleability. 

When the passion of the people becomes dominant, the army can become spectator, and a state that has lost legitimacy finds itself unable even to guarantee its own survival.

The tribes are already counting their numbers. History is brutally clear on what follows when they stop trusting the state to keep score. A simple kneeling could once have signalled magnanimity and bought vital time. The fact it is now impossible for one side shows how late the hour truly is.

[James Connolly @Irish_Bees]

@DPJHodges @francessmith The odious Gregory Campbell summed it up, "you have lost the house but gained the country".