Still opinionated, often wrong.
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Danny retweeted
Was an absolute PLEASURE to meet John Cena today. A true Gent, and here is so beautiful inspiring words from the man himself. Check out his new movie tomorrow, Matchbox : The Movie on Apple TV. Bosh❤️
Danny retweeted
This isn't about Protestant versus Catholics. This is about what's right and what's wrong. An orange order marching down a nationalist area with the sole motive being, to antagonise residents is wrong. West Belfast stands with Garvaghy road residents. I stand with them. ✊💚
Danny retweeted
A lot of you from outside Ireland are probably hearing about the Garvaghy Road and wondering what all the fuss is about.
1998 -
After the parade was banned from marching on the Garvaghy Rd, ten Catholic churches were set on fire across Ulster in one night.
In the following days, loyalists attacked Catholic homes, schools and businesses. Multiple houses were petrol-bombed, resulting in the murder of 3 young boys, the Quinn brothers. Their home was targeted because their mother was Catholic.
She mother woke to the sound of her children screaming in fear and the house full of smoke. Sadly the boys, Jason, Mark and Richard, did not make it out.
Garfield Gilmour was sentenced to life in prison after he admitted to driving three members of a UVF unit to the house, but later that was reduced to manslaughter.
Johnny McKay and brothers Raymond and Ivan Parke were named by Gilmour as the killers, but were never charged because of a lack of evidence.
In the days following the murders, loyalist bands defied orders not to play music while marching passed the home of the Quinn boys grandmother.
Tonight, a court overturned an earlier ruling banning the parade from marching on the Garvaghy Road, crowds have gathered and confrontation now seems inevitable with that march set to go ahead early Sunday morning.
The courts allowing this march to go ahead is absolute madness!
Danny retweeted
Our Margaret’s Final Campaign stand is up and running at Labour Party Conference - come and see us at Stand K5!
Thank you Marie-France for stopping by to visit us and hear more about our campaign to find a cure for glioblastoma brain tumours within ten years.
Danny retweeted
President Trump knows better than most that elections matter. Northern Ireland’s constitutional future will be decided by the people of Northern Ireland, not by commentary in London, Dublin or Washington.
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom because that is the settled democratic will of its people. I am confident NI will continue to choose the UK and the security it offers. 🇬🇧
As unionists we are not interested in the destruction of our country by joining with the Irish Republic.
Danny retweeted
I was at work in the offices of the @thetimes when the planes hit. We all thought it was a terrible accident at first. Then the realization that it was not. When I think back, it was the day everything changed. The sad thing is that the evil that took so many innocent lives that day has only grown stronger in our world. #9/11
Danny retweeted
Dignity in Dying campaigner Sophie Blake, from Brighton, tells me she’s “devastated” at the defeat of the assisted dying bill.
But Sophie, who was incurable cancer, insists she will “absolutely” continue campaigning.
@itvmeridian
Danny retweeted
Today’s decision from the Health Secretary on prostate cancer screening is a missed opportunity - too timid, too slow, and lacking the bold ambition that we so desperately wanted to see.
As I set out last week, I fundamentally disagree with the National Screening Committee’s advice on a future screening programme for prostate cancer, which is far too narrow. I strongly believe that if we are really to get on top of prostate cancer - the most common cancer in British men - then a proper, targeted screening programme for all those at higher risk is needed… and needed now.
I welcome expanded provision of focal therapy, which I benefited from last year with my own cancer; this must be an urgent priority to make available across the NHS. And the recognition that more work is needed to screen at risk groups, such as black men, is important.
But this was an opportunity for bold, decisive, life-saving action - action that would help save the heartache of too many families losing a loved-one to this disease. That, sadly, has been missed. We will continue the campaign to urge the Government to go further, faster and put in place a progressive policy that includes a proper screening programme for the most at-risk men.
Danny retweeted
Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: quibble.org.uk
Danny retweeted
Nothing screams ‘taking voters for granted’ more than suggesting that because someone voted for you 20 years ago they’re now obliged to continue doing so for the rest of their natural days or be accused of hypocrisy.
Danny retweeted
Top trolling by Barry Gardiner, Labour MP. Gardiner positions himself on the bench behind Starmer with a copy of Fraud on his lap!!! (the book about how Starmer lied his way to the Labour leadership)
Danny retweeted
If Keir Starmer does resign then at least his kids can go back to having a normal life…like using a multi-millionaire’s £14m penthouse to revise for their school exams.
Danny retweeted
Ignore these so called ‘minor’ crimes, and the bigger problems follow
Just got on the Tube and watched three young men walk straight through the barriers one wearing a balaclava. They had 0 shame didn’t even glance around to see if anyone was watching. They knew nothing would happen, and they were right.
Meanwhile, the rest of us work hard, pay our fares, follow the rules, and end up looking like fools while some people walk straight through for free. But this isn’t just about fare evasion it’s about a BROKEN SOCIAL CONTRACT.
Look at Broken Windows policing in New York in the 90s: after fare evasion and minor disorder were tackled seriously, fare evasion in the subway was CUT by about 75 % over five years..
Ignore these so called ‘minor’ crimes, and the bigger problems follow
Danny retweeted
That was some epic #Sixnations. In the balance until the final seconds. @IrishRugby came painfully close to a championship win but it wasn’t to be.
