@sluggerotoole.com@rss-parrot.net
I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.
---
Conversation, politics and stray insights
Site URL: sluggerotoole.com
Feed URL: sluggerotoole.com/feed
Posts: 13
Followers: 17
From Stormont to our homes. Busyness and the illusion of action…
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/07/from-stormont-to-our-homes-busyness-and-the-illusion-of-action/
Published: July 7, 2025 06:37
As regular readers might know, I’m on an online news and social media break over the summer. I’ve found that reading a paper newspaper is a good compromise—it keeps me informed without the internet’s relentless firehose of misery and information. My main…
The Daily Thread For Monday 7th July 2025
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/07/the-daily-thread-for-monday-7th-july-2025/
Published: July 7, 2025 05:00
Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind.
The Daily Thread For Sunday 6th July 2025
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/06/the-daily-thread-for-sunday-6th-july-2025/
Published: July 6, 2025 05:00
Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind.
In defence of Bob Vylan – Racism, literalism, music… and Ireland.
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/05/in-defence-of-bob-vylan-racism-literalism-music-and-ireland/
Published: July 5, 2025 06:00
The efforts to expunge punk-rap duo Bob Vylan entirely from the public record are remarkable, disturbing, and appalling in equal measure. This week, the controversy surrounding their anti-IDF chanting at the Glastonbury festival has seen the duo widely…
The Daily Thread For Saturday 5th July 2025
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/05/the-daily-thread-for-saturday-5th-july-2025/
Published: July 5, 2025 05:00
Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind.
The Orange Institution’s biggest enemy is itself…
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/04/the-orange-institutions-biggest-enemy-is-itself/
Published: July 4, 2025 15:09
The Parades Commission has once again ruled that the Orange Institution will be banned from parading along Garvaghy Road in 2025. This decision is hardly surprising—it marks the thirtieth consecutive year such a ruling has been made. What may surprise…
The Daily Thread For Friday 4th July 2025
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/04/the-daily-thread-for-friday-4th-july-2025/
Published: July 4, 2025 10:42
Here you can post and discuss news stories, social media links, or whatever is on your mind.
The population of the island of Ireland exceeds seven million for the first time since 1851…
Published: July 4, 2025 09:37
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) and NISRA has published a joint census publication showing that the population of the island of Ireland has exceeded 7 million people for the first time since 1851. You can read the report here. Key findings In 2022, the…
A new report claims the cost of an united Ireland has been exaggerated and reunification is affordable…
Published: July 3, 2025 08:36
As Wimbledon is on, it’s fitting that it’s also report tennis time again! We haven’t had a good reunification cost report in a while, but fear not, the latest volley is here. A brand new analysis from Dublin City University and Ulster University has just…
I Know How You Feel, Rachel. We’re All Crying Over This Government Too…
Published: July 3, 2025 07:47
Sir Keir Starmer has thrown his full support behind Rachel Reeves, saying she will remain Chancellor “into the next election and for many years after,” following an emotional moment during Prime Minister’s Questions. Reeves was reportedly seen in tears,…
Who can I trust, where is safety?
https://sluggerotoole.com/2025/07/02/who-can-i-trust-where-is-safety/
Published: July 2, 2025 10:52
FiFi Garrett is a politically savvy Essex native now rooted in rural Northern Ireland, living just outside Derry-Londonderry. Visit her site. So far this year twenty seven women have lost their lives to violence in Northern Ireland. The most recent is…
“We’re between narratives, which means denial in the early stages is because of a desire to preserve last shreds of old imploding monoculture’
Published: July 2, 2025 09:59
Reconciliation, rekənˌsɪliˈeɪʃən: “the process of making two people or groups of people friendly again after they have argued seriously or fought and kept apart from each other, or a situation in which this happens.” -Cambridge Dictionary Last week the…
When Delivery Fails: Northern Ireland’s Dysfunction in a World of Democratic Drift…
Published: July 1, 2025 06:00
Matthew Syed’s writes in The Sunday Times this week and it got me thinking. He argues that the problem facing many Western democracies isn’t that politicians have stopped delivering—it’s that voters have stopped wanting reality. We demand high-quality…