Dr Matthew A. L. Gault

Is it interesting that in March 2001, they released a polit episode about a radio controlled plane hitting the World Trade Center? A bit, but like WTC had already been attacked before and was a dramatic landmark. Like in 2000, as a writer, you're either choosing WTC or the Empire State Building.

Reached X-Files Season 8 Episode 15, that means it is time to move over to The Lone Gunmen, a show about conspiracies which has become the centre of some conspiracy theories. Apparently, "cancelled for getting too close to the truth, just like Dark Angel" or so YouTube comments tell me.

I would be almost certain, as some raised Protestant in Northern Ireland's weird religious world, that the French Federation of Protestants also had absolutely no idea what Bush was going on about. I only know from reading the Americans, and my great grandmother was a Paisleyite.

A reminder that there is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon.

"There are no societies that do not view nuclear family relationships as centrally important" is a sentence that caused my eye to twitch so much. It is just empirically wrong. Though, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

I can't explain the movie Hundreds of Beavers, but I can highly recommend the movie Hundreds of Beavers. It is just a joy from start to finish.

Honestly, even though it was a purely research and experimental exercise using a source I was intimately familiar with to prove it was a pointless tool, I do feel that single use of AI is a deep dark black mark on my soul.

I don't think I'll ever be able to understand tech bro AI fetishist mind. Grappling with complex ideas in detail is one of the great joys of being human.

For what it's worth, I asked Adobe Reader's AI to summarise my PhD, and it just pulled out random quotes from my conclusion out of order.

Some of my favourite discovers, a man claiming to be kidnapped by Hare Krishnas (not believed by police or parents), brothers getting caught setting up an illegal checkpoint by the army who picked the same place for a checkpoint, and a priest under a psuedonym being very suspicious of the army.

Fermanagh is lucky to have two local papers currently, and a couple of more historically. During my PhD, they were invaluable as an historic record, perhaps not always of fact but certainly of local vibe and concern. If we were to rely on the Belfast papers or British/Irish press we'd know nothing.

the purpose of a system is what it does — Stafford Beer (2002)

Many people died to defend a "multicultural economic zone." And then Donald Trump had their deaths hidden because he's a racist. www.military.com/daily-news/i...

This is the first I’ve read of the Trump administration’s order to stop commemorating the Black American soldiers in a US military cemetery in the Netherlands. My God, how sick, petty & vindictive, how all-consumed with racist hatred do you have to be to order that?

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

The study does not remotely say that science “leans hard left.” Nor does the fact that academics left the Nazis-and-child-porn website for a different website mean they’re producing biased evidence.

All of the major threats to science in 2026 come from the right.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

The transphobic press have no incentive to give Labour credit for their transphobia and every incentive to push them to go further. Labour gain nothing by caving to them, and yet cave to them they will, out of a potent combination of hatred for trans people and political ineptitude.

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were

It makes you wonder whether the whole ‘war on woke’ over the last few years was waged just so that men like Ratcliffe could be disgustingly racist again without any accountability.

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unfortunately, Peter, Adobe Reader's AI keeps offering to turn the articles I'm reading into podcasts and if it starts generating some nice cold opens and inside jokes, then no-one is safe.

Obviously, the whole thing reaches back to the time before the DUP's foundation, with Paisley Snr's Bob Jones University connection. Honestly, ther'e probably a good project in tracing the connections between Ulster Evangelism, the "moral majority" and the American Right in more depth.

In the wake of a vote of no confidence in the DUP Minister for Communities and the ruling of the standards commissioner, none of this is surprising. The DUP have been on this train for a long time, you only need to look at McCausland's whole "Cultural Marxism" writings to see that.

I’ve written and edited a lot about free speech since about 2018. And I’ve repeatedly use the example of “someone refusing to invite you to something” as a sort of parody of a free speech grift. Of course it doesn’t count!

well, aside from the fact this entire thing is about the fact Reform quite literally does want to go to Bangor University

There are certainly no differences between the socio-political climate of Northern Ireland and Welsh universities...

Honestly, something feels right about being somewhere in the wilderness to the left of Northern Irish Civil Society.

Where is Elmo from that he could be deported from the US? Can Ireland offer Elmo asylum? I'm sure the Morbegs would look after him.

Tomorrow's Headlines

The Telegraph: Starmer Next!

The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!

The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role

The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home

If anything, the only thing they aren't floundering on is being strongly anti-Corbyn - and by anti-Corbyn, I mean rooting out anything left of Teresa May in the party while pretending they're something new.

I am not sure it is fair to say the Labour Party is currently acting like anyone is in charge and isn't floundering, even when McSweeney was apparently "in charge". Also, imagine being a member of a, allegedly, left wing party and whining about wokeness and net-zero. Catch yourselves on.