Matthew O'Toole
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264 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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threat to an area or even planned disruption.
But because if you are a school principal or you manage a shop or a cafe, you have to make a decision about your staff and your customers and their welfare.
And you're going to, in more cases than not, err on the side of caution.
And that's why this slightly fascistic tendency to
tell everybody that everything's shutting down at this time, and then putting that on probably an AI-generated infographic, which takes a few seconds of time and is then being shared across WhatsApp.
And it looks really official.
And it looks official.
And people who are busy, who knows?
People who aren't people might think it's coming from, might think it is coming from either an official source or somebody who's properly organized.
It could just be...
we don't know, some idiot in their basement who's decided to cook this up and is on a few message boards.
So that is really worrying.
And it's worrying because it can just disrupt society at the drop of a hat.
And I'm glad I'm chairing a committee downstairs in less than an hour.
And I think it's important that people, we do kind of stand up to this a bit and say, well, life has to go on and we're not going to be shut down by this.
Well, certainly there have been particular
protests and particular flashpoints in areas that are traditionally seen as loyalist working-class areas I think it's important to say of course that this is in no way representative of working-class unionist loyalist communities it isn't and this only takes a very small number of
often young people, perhaps people who don't have enough economic opportunity or feel frozen out of opportunity of one kind or another, who can be exploited.
I don't know yet, but we will certainly be asking the police their view as to whether paramilitaries have had any involvement in coordinating this.
Certainly in the past, we know that people who either
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