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Gold medals and ‘useful idiots’: a whiplash-inducing week veers from Olympic heroes to racist rioters
On Tuesday, Claire Hanna, the SDLP MP for Belfast South and Mid Down, joined English to give her response to the rioting. Hanna was not shy in describing some of the participants in the Belfast violence as “useful idiots” supplementing known far-right actors and “grifters who are trying to get themselves a profile”.
, Hanna noted that the people holding the flags were associating “with groups who have marginalised, and oppressed, and attacked, and murdered people from this island for many decades”, which “shows what we’re dealing with” – and that this represents “an infection and not a tumour”.in Paris, both struck completely different tones, perhaps due to the almost 20 minutes of difficult content leading up to their conversation.
Why do girls as young as seven feel they’re held to different beauty standards from boys? That’s what the psychotherapist and author on Wednesday. It’s an important conversation; as O’Malley says, a focus on looks can have a negative impact on young girls. But the analysis was frustratingly narrow at times, particularly around the idea that the issue is largely down to girls being complimented on social media for their looks.
I’m not sure how many new fans of showbands he picked up, but I’d wager a fair few people were bobbing their heads to tunes that they’d normally roll their eyes at. Or maybe they stayed tuned in to hear more of that Dundalk accent. C’mon the town, as they say.Gold medals and ‘useful idiots’: a whiplash-inducing week veers from Olympic heroes to racist rioters
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