Cara-Friend supports the physical, mental and emotional well being of the LGBTQIA+ community in Northern Ireland. A list of our services may be found at
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Freelance man of art and letters ✍🏻. Weekly on Substack. Words in the LRB, TLS, The Art Newspaper.
CREATION. ART SINCE THE BEGINNING, Bloomsbury 2021, (a) Sunday Times Art Book of the Year
Latest book THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, coming 5th May.
(she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
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✍️ Author of Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries (Liverpool University Press, 2016), co-host of Shrapnel podcast
📩 Updating my research and writing on the Troubles
Former Treasury official
Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.
• Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
💚 Real hope. Real change.
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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
Belfast City Councillor | Lisnasharragh | SDLP Belfast Group Leader | New Irelander | Atlanticist | LGBT+ | San Diego Democrats Alum | YIMBY |
defaoites@belfastcity.gov.uk
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Freelance sports and football writer for the Morning Star newspaper, World Soccer magazine, Guardian US, FotMob, BBC, and the Soccer Times.
MLS, USL, US Open Cup, Concacaf and American soccer reverie.
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Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now
stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) out now | latest book: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann |
bansheepress.org
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Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020.
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Emeritus Prof, stalled writing about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Staraí/Scríbhneoir - Historian/Writer
Scoláire iardhochtúireachta IRC in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe / iarscoláire Fulbright
19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff:
linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Alliance Party councillor for Comber DEA in Ards and North Down Borough Council and Francophile 🇫🇷
We expose all forms of racism and fascism in Ireland and further afield.
Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
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Lifelong Red | Father | Son | Husband | Northerner | 80's Kid | No Right-wing Shit | Don't buy the S*n |
#LFC |
#JFT97 |
Historian of the near-present ✍️
Co-editor, In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)
Co-convenor, IHR Contemporary British History seminar (@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social)
#cpfc 🔵🔴
My novel, Catch 2020: The Covid Deliria of Brian Jackson
amzn.eu/d/5Np49ZH available at Amz on kindle or paper version. Next novel wip is on use of immersive VR in palliative care.
Bio: Wilms survivor / LFC / tech / v slow old jogger
PhD @BirkbeckHCA looking at intersections of race and sex work in late twentieth century Britain. AHRC funded. she/her.
Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition |
moralambition.org |
rutgerbregman.com
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books/ Manifesto of Bliss zine
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Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve also curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Just holding up a mirror to local politics.
Not the real DUP, obviously. Parody.
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Showcasing the best in
#respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Assistant opinion editor at the Guardian. Writer on arts, culture and society
Mixed race Irish writer, poet, cello player, garlic grower and gin infusion enthusiast.
Breaking Ground Ireland 2022, Foundation Programme participant Irish Writer’s Centre 2022 and Flash Fiction Armagh participant 2023.
Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
