Barry McCrossan
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Barry McCrossan
@Bazz78
Live in Manchester, hail from Northern Ireland. I like high brow films and low brow music.
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Ten years ago made this piece for Newsnight (one of my first!) for the 100th. Hard to believe just how much has been packed into Anglo-Irish relations, how much has changed, even since then. Much for the worse. youtu.be/RmaIOG9-BBk?si…
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@vittorioangelon Not being funny but some of us are trying to buy Celine tickets and you’re ruining the algorithm
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@Kev_Andrew @rtenews Why is the UK hell bent on being seen as the moral compass of the world?
A nation still relying on the USA to defend them from conflict. Who once had an empire including Bombay but with public finances are so poor they can’t buy Bombay Mix down the pub.
Glass houses, no?
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@rtenews Why is Ireland so hell bent on being seen as the moral compass of the world?
A nation still relying on UK to defend it in conflict, with crumbling infrastructure and public services, housing disaster and uncontrolled immigration, oh and a shit football team.
Bigger fish, no?
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#Breaking The FAI has voted to submit a motion to UEFA to ban Israel from its European club and international competitions
rte.ie/sport/soccer/2…
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All very well for Lynn Perry of Barnardo's to be in media today on Andrew. Too little, too late? Camilla is Patron, I know, but previous silence was deafening, some may feel.
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Ah, I’ve almost missed Iain Duncan Smith being wrong about everything…
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Iain Duncan Smith says when Maccabi played a game in Istanbul there was no trouble at all @IanByrneMP had to point out UEFA moved the game to Hungary after the Turkish authorities refused to stage it &the Hungarian authorities then played it behind closed doors. Hence no trouble
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@AvaSantina You looked rough as dog shit and spoke the truth beautifully Ava. Does that even it out?
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Shallowly I feel embarrassed because I’d had one hour sleep and I do look rough as hell in this video. But the feedback being “you’re a tart with too much make up on” is proof the point was worth making.
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@trussliz Me seeing my mortgage go up by £500 per month
Not the windmills again
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@ColinBrazierTV Bradford has been ethnically cleansed of its native White British population and can now be more accurately described as a Pakistani city. This has to be reversed.
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Last night, I went for a drink with a close family member who - unlike me - still lives in Bradford. She was in tears, describing the arc of decline traced by a once great city that became Britain’s pre-eminent laboratory for the failed policies of multiculturalism.
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If everyone who’s obese cut c.200 calories from their daily diet - a bottle of Coke - we’ll halve obesity.
The government is working with supermarkets to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and rolling out obesity jabs on the NHS.
Making the NHS sustainable for the future.
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@FloellaBenjamin @CBeebiesHQ Hi Floella. I grew up in rural Northern Ireland and I think you were the first black person I ever saw! I remember my mum getting a bit tetchy because I was a bit stressed that Playschool wasn’t on one day. Thank you and all the team for the hard work. I appreciate it enormously
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Thrilled to be joining CBeebies House as a guest presenter. It will be like being on #Playschool again. It’s going to be so wonderfully exciting and adventurous creating home-grown, educational and inspirational children’s content for a whole new generation. @CBeebiesHQ
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@ThePoke It’s a bit embarrassing that Natalie Imbuglia and The Cardigans had multiple hits and you chose to lead with them. A cursory glance at Top of the Pops on bbc4 Friday night would have done the trick.
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20 one-hit wonders from the ‘90s that were absolute bangers (and we won’t be told otherwise)
thepoke.com/2025/06/05/20-…
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And to think there have been supposedly serious people on here the last 24 hours claiming it's an issue the government are better to leave unaddressed, for fear of seeming Reform-y or whatever.
YouGov@YouGov
50% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the highest level since June 2016 Immigration: 50% (+2 from 3-5 May) Economy: 49% (-3) Health: 36% (=) Crime: 22% (=) Defence: 21% (+1) Housing: 18% (-2) Environment: 17% (+2) Welfare: 14% (+1) Tax: 13% (-1) Europe: 13% (=)
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@JamesFl Putting aside ethics, it’s a ploitical bungee jump no?
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"I Kissed A Boy" tells young gay men watching the show that they must be attracted to women who are pretending to be male. It’s a regressive, insulting and homophobic message to same-sex attracted young people. See our letter to the BBC's Tim Davie 👇
lgballiance.org.uk/bbc-series-hom…
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@jk_rowling You are a wicked old harridan and I’d rather have an army of trans nieces, mothers, aunties, uncles. Bore off Wizard Billionaire.
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I get the same royalties whether you read them or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows! 😘
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