For younger readers, Gerry Adams isn’t just some random retired politician. He spent decades denying he was in the IRA while everyone around him insisted he was one of its most senior figures.
So seeing him warn about political extremists exploiting young people and leading them into violence is, to put it mildly, a remarkable display of hypocrisy.
I magine dating someone for 3 years through / after uni, you live together in a flat share then break up and they now have access to half your pension 😂
I bet 3.4million of the 3.5 million couples don't actually want the legal ramifications of marriage & why they didn't get...
notice how leftists hate both malala yousafzai and marjane satrapi. it's almost like they hate brown women who stand up for women's rights because their loyalty lies with reactionary men as long as they're seen as anti-west
Southwark Council:
Let a foreign First Lady have a free council house ✅
Approve hundreds of new homes for people to live in, replacing a dilapidated shopping centre ❌
"Well-paid graduates" are the only people keeping this country afloat, yet this is the disdain they receive when they speak up about how they're being failed by the housing shortage.
Compared to 2010, Manchester is richer, denser, taller, more international, and has greater economic clout in 2026. From a thriving industrial city, it has developed into a significant metropolitan hub in Europe.
manchesterism is real, but do feel there’s some partial telling going on. it’s been a *40+ year* project of:
1) city regeneration delivered by close, long-term partnerships between council & repeat developers/investors
2) pro-business council leaders who were entrepreneurial builders & dealmakers, not just speechmakers
3) and yes, more recently, municipal control of core services that has improved quality
ie. you need all 3, you can’t just pick and choose
i’m sympathetic to municipalisation bc today we are in the worst of all worlds: weak state capacity *and* zombified private markets dominated by rent seekers
so given today’s regulatory ratchet was *triggered by privatisation*, public ownership of some natural monopolies & core services could *unlock* market liberalisation for everything else
but you have to do both! not just the public control bit