‘It’s a disaster’: Lebanon’s most vulnerable struggle to cope in overcrowded war shelters People with disabilities and the elderly in Lebanon are facing shortages of medicine, equipment and basic care

‘It’s a disaster’: Lebanon’s most vulnerable struggle to cope in overcrowded war shelters

Let disabled people get married or even just move in with their partners without it affecting our disability allowance.

It wasn't means tested based on my parent's income when I lived with them, it shouldn't be means tested based on my partner's income. It sets me up for financial abuse.

Surrealing in the Years: 'Fuel protests' are bad news for a society that's given up on nuance Moments such as this are rich with uncertainty, a banquet for cynical opportunists.

Great piece of analysis. People are going through enough without adding the protests on top of it but sectors are suffering & the government have managed nothing. Even if an election was held tomorrow we have no viable alternatives. That's how the far right gets a hold #speirgorm

Public service announcement: Intelligence ≠ goodness.

Please don't argue that just cos someone seems not very clever and a bit awful that the two are linked. They’re not. Worth keeping in mind.

I have a full page report in today's @irishtimes.com on Israeli attacks on healthcare in Lebanon & the crisis of international law. Read it online or in the print newspaper: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this.

Are any other news outlets going to cover this? Still only seen one local paper do so (with an interesting angle on why this is dangerous) northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org

jessie buckley attends the #Oscars

#fashionsky

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

A damning indictment of the scheme from the Special Advocate @patriciac.bsky.social

Concern over 'poor take up' of Mother and Baby scheme www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A poster for an event at York Literature Festival. The text reads: "Let's get philosophical, writing philosophical fiction with Rachel Handley, 6th March, 2 pm to 4 pm, York Medical Society". The background of the poster is of a pile of books stacked on top of one another.

Come write some weird and philosophical fiction with me at the @yorklitfest.bsky.social in March! You know you want to!

Tickets: www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/lets-ge...

@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

Tomorrow!

All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice The Government is seeking to dramatically erode the public right of access to justice via the courts by imposing prohibitively expensive costs on eNGOs and members of civil society who seek to challen...

🚨Last Chance
The Irish Government is about to remove citizen's abilities to challenge illegal developments in our courts

You still have till 5.30 to have your say

@antaisce.bsky.social have provide excellent guidance on what’s wrong with the public consultation process and the proposal
#Speirgorm

Fiona: I will be the most chaotic contestant.

Harriet: Hold my Molotov cocktail.

#TheTraitors

Horse well drawn to a sketch meme

Harriet's detective work #TheTraitors

OMG Fiona! #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUk

Green tile with black line drawn border that reads: Irish Celebrity Wedding Murder Mystery Party Game Vows, Vengeance & VIPs The Setting Welcome to Ballycillross Castle, hidden in the misty Wicklow mountains, where scandal and high-society drama hide. This weekend, popstars, politicians, psychics and priests gather for the celebrity wedding of the century. But before dinner, a pop mogul is dead and one of the guests is the killer!

I make murder mystery party kits with my retired detective dad.

I am loving The Traitors UK!

So I've put a 20% discount code on my celebrity wedding in an Irish castle party kit.

My money's on Fiona for ST!

#TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #TheTraitorsUK

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Yes yes yes! Called it. Secret traitor! #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUk

I'd have loved this when my kids were babies. Great idea. I really wish I'd recorded more of it. It's lost to sleep deprivation.

Heading up to Trinity to give a lecture on Irish folklore, followed by a creative writing class.

Green tile with black line drawn border that reads: Irish Celebrity Wedding Murder Mystery Party Game Vows, Vengeance & VIPs The Setting Welcome to Ballycillross Castle, hidden in the misty Wicklow mountains, where scandal and high-society drama hide. This weekend, popstars, politicians, psychics and priests gather for the celebrity wedding of the century. But before dinner, a pop mogul is dead and one of the guests is the killer!

I make murder mystery party kits with my retired detective dad.

I am loving The Traitors UK!

So I've put a 20% discount code on my celebrity wedding in an Irish castle party kit.

My money's on Fiona for ST!

#TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #TheTraitorsUK

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"I'm not going to tell people I'm a police officer..." #TheTraitors

To think that providing homeless accommodation is fast becoming one of Irelands big indigenous service industries Yet we've over 160k empty homes & over 20k derelict homes How have we left successive governments normalise this violence While generations suffer 😡 #DerelictIreland

To think that providing homeless accommodation is fast becoming one of Irelands big indigenous service industries
Yet we've over 160k empty homes & over 20k derelict homes
How have we left successive governments normalise this violence
While generations suffer
Sickening😡
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm

Flamboyant, furious and full of hope: CMAT is the sound of 2025 | John Harris The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Joyous, defiant & full of sense of the times: here's my end of year op-ed about the amazing CMAT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My comedy novel, Spirit Level, makes a wonderful gift for a friend who likes that sort of thing and can also be hurled at an enemy from behind.

This gave me such a rush of nostalgia in the charity shop this morning…

Drawing of a skeletal Elf On The Shelf next to the words Touts Out #art #ElfOnTheShelf #ElfOnAShelf #Cartoon

End the child surveillance state

Same. Isn't part of taking parenting advice knowing where it's come from.

A trusted friend who has two slightly older children, a person you met at a parent group and plausible sounding bullshit from the bowls of the internet shouldn't have the same weight.

Collage of five photos showing disabled individuals engaged in joyful, inclusive community events. Participants are diverse in age, gender, and disability, including visible mobility aids. Central circular graphic reads: “DWI – International Day of People with Disabilities – 3rd December 2025.” The overall tone is celebratory and empowering, highlighting advocacy, connection, and representation.

Today, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we celebrate our amazing community of disabled women and non-binary people and recognise there’s still so much work to do.