Rory McSwiggan

When you do ra jokes in front of the ra.

They keep moaning and they keep losing. You simply can't tell people what they're allowed to enjoy. The Day Of The Scold is over. They have lost.

Just let Iran have the nukes and end it all now.

@tweedy151 @afneil The News Quiz is rotten. Naked Week a bit better. Adore Dead Ringers.

@roryms @afneil It was a joke Rory. Try the News Quiz on R4, it’s excellent. Or Deadringers. To get your humour levels up.

What? All of BBC Radio? Including R1 and R2, which could easily be provided by the market. And R5 already is. So we’re down to R3/4. At most.

@SalemTheRat @afneil I mean it all, BBC Sounds. R1-6m doesn't even include all that BBC Sounds does.

@roryms @afneil He explicitly excludes R3 and R4.

@tweedy151 @afneil Ok show me.

@roryms @afneil Netflix will do all that Rory. And Disney+

@afneil Any of it. Not at this quality and breadth.

@afneil The market won't do this.

@mickeypeedia @PaulGosling1 90

@PaulGosling1 You literally said people, though. How many people in Belfast.

I'm referring to the social media commentary - but also the generational discrimination against the city by political decision makers

Polanski is a know-nothing blowhard. The only Jewish person to lead a political party — bar, that is, Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband, Michael Howard, Jimmy Goldsmith and Herbert Samuel. He is clearly ignorant of the country’s history. And much more besides.

Extremely ironic. Leftists are marching against the far right in London today, waving the flag of the islamic regime in Iran - an ultraconservative barbarian theocracy. Leftism is a DISEASE.

My goodness.

@toner_martin @EimhearMurphy @Ed_Authority And standard practice for over 3 decades.

@roryms @EimhearMurphy @Ed_Authority Yes

Why is @Ed_Authority asking teachers to label themselves as Republican, Loyalist, Nationalist or Unionist? Classrooms should be places of trust, not political sorting exercises. This feels inappropriate and totally out of line.

@JebraFaushay What daft bint took away the chair.

This is even more majestic than the painting from Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. The performance art before you is an ecological reflection on the climate emergency, reminding us of the fleeting beauty of snow.

The Jews are not allowed to march against Nazis. But the Iranian regime that just killed 40,000 of their own people are allowed to march against Nazis! They are the Nazis!

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable? Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms? That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres? That men don’t belong in women’s sport? That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders? That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues? That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context? That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex? That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights? That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society? That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit? That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t? That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology? That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century? Let me have your thoughts.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

A family member of Zack Polanski: ‘The mad thing is that he’s gay, he’s Jewish but he’s cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he’s supposed to stand for. It’s like he’s a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC.’ Brutal but true! 👌🏼

@DaraghCassidy They don't look that bad. Parked cars would look worse.

Anytime I walk through Liffey Street I can’t help but think of what a wasted opportunity it was to create something really nice. But at a minimum, if you’re going to put down hundreds of bollards, would you not buy a few half-decent looking ones? #BollardAthaCliath

@Rob_scar @TfL Likely badly designed for wind.

Does anyone know @TfL why the front doors to Bond Street Station at Hanover Square are never open? They’ve been like this since the second week of opening.

@toner_martin @EimhearMurphy @Ed_Authority Isn't it anonymous as well?

@EimhearMurphy @Ed_Authority 99% of government jobs have the same question, it’s for equal opportunity forms and doesn’t make up part of the application, it is kept separate