Incredible of France, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Canada to all be drafting foreign policy around a by-election. Who’d have thought!
52% of Britons approve of the government's decision to ban the import of goods from contested Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Approve: 52%
Disapprove: 17%
By 2024 vote
Grn: +79 net support
Lab: +62
LD: +58
Con: +4
Ref: -23
Excellent statement by the British foreign secretary on Israel and Palestine. No reasonable person could seriously object to any of it. Of course, the swivel-eyed loons on both sides are coming for Mr Miliband...
Can't help but feel much of NI politics is dicking about with parades, flags statues etc and they're all terrible at the stuff we need government to actually do
“My understanding is that at this stage resources have been offered but falls well short of even the pressures of one department – let alone across the Northern Ireland Executive.”
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says funding “falls well short” and warned that if accepted in its current form “will not get the job done.”
The DUP leader was speaking as Stormont returns from the summer break and Secretary of State Sir Chris Bryant began a series of meetings, with the budget and Northern Ireland’s funding settlement high on the agenda.
Jason Arday is dead for his mistakes. Matt Goodwin loses an election, self-publishes a widely mocked book allegedly containing fake quotes and AI hallucinations, and is still awarded a platform at Reform conference to grift and chat breeze. Some people are destroyed for their failures. Others fail upwards.
@RobertJenrick Cat check: In a 2024 interview Reform leader Nigel Farage praised Argentinian President Javier Milei - "All the things he’s done … That’s leadership … He is amazing.”
Not to flog a dead horse, but the British trump cheerleaders, who mistook MAGA for some sort of international populist alliance, are the biggest idiots going
“Neither God nor the Pope of Rome could have gotten me to protest outside a girls’ primary school.
“We saw many things throughout the conflict, but that has always stayed with me… To be frank, I was horrified.”
It has been 25 years since the loyalist blockade of Holy Cross, the all-girls primary school in 2001, in which crowds vociferously and violently objected to parents from nationalist Ardoyne escorting their children to school.
Gerry Kelly opens up about the dark chapter in Northern Ireland’s troubled past, praising the young girls and their families for their bravery and hopes that such scenes “will never be repeated.”
🎥 Dylan Hegarty