@BBCNewsnight Well said @CalvinBailey - YOUR point is correct. The framing of the @BBCNewsnight debate was about ‘(illegal) immigration, rather than far right incited racial hatred. I always watch @BBCNewsnight and respect @vicderbyshire - tonight they failed to address bad actors and racism.
A @DUPleader clearly showing his bigotry in his answers to all the questions posed on @BBCNewsnight. It is common knowledge that these ‘loyalists’ in N.I. were inciting the 16 and 17 year olds onto the streets last night to attack people of colour / immigrants.
Well said @CalvinBailey - YOUR point is correct. The framing of the @BBCNewsnight debate was about ‘(illegal) immigration, rather than far right incited racial hatred. I always watch @BBCNewsnight and respect @vicderbyshire - tonight they failed to address bad actors and racism.
“This really goes to the heart of why it's reasonable to think about the national security dimension when there are these atrocious attacks.”
The government's terror adviser Jonathan Hall KC reacts to a second night of violence in Belfast.
#Newsnight
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.
BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn
Stop the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ taking place in London on 14 June. Palestinian land is not for sale. Such sales are illegal & unethical. This event should not be allowed to go ahead
⚡ BREAKING: EU proposes first-ever entry ban on anyone who has served in the Russian military since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen says.
The EU keeps making the same point:
The four freedoms go together.
Goods. Services. Capital. People.
You can’t permanently cherry-pick one and reject another.
The road back to the Single Market always leads through Freedom of Movement.
https://t.co/WW5XczTn0n
BREAKING:
Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.
A village that has stood for thousands of years.
A place where Jesus once walked.
Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.
And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has been told it risks sending a 'dangerous message' that Palestinian lives are not valued by allowing an event selling land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to go ahead in London https://t.co/zrmwq5HsIn
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has been told it risks sending a 'dangerous message' that Palestinian lives are not valued by allowing an event selling land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to go ahead in London https://t.co/zrmwq5HsIn
The horrific knife attack occurred around 10.30 PM on June 8, 2026, on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast.
A man in his 40s was pinned down and repeatedly stabbed/slashed with what police believe was a kitchen knife.
The victim was hospitalised with serious/life-threatening injuries but is alive; police have corrected misinformation claiming he died or was a child. His condition remains serious as of the latest updates.
Police initially described the suspect as believed to be Somali but quickly corrected to Sudanese. He had leave to remain in the UK and had traveled to Northern Ireland from Dublin. He lived locally near the scene.
Leave to remain generally means he possessed valid UK immigration permission to be in the country (most likely limited/temporary leave, as full ILR is less commonly phrased that way without specification). This status allowed him to live in the UK legally at the time of the incident, even though he had traveled from Dublin.
There is no verified information about what led to this incident, but it is NOT being treated as terrorism-related. A major investigation is underway; no other suspects are being sought.
Police and officials (including Justice Minister Naomi Long) are urging calm to avoid retaliation, backlash against ethnic minorities, or repeats of past disorder.
Despite this, and entirely predictably, Tommy Robinson, (currently believed to be in Russia with Erroll Musk, who has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren), along with the usual elite populist politicians, including Nigel Farage, are seeking to capitalise on the incident and inflame tensions.
Robinson has made social disorder more likely by tweeting to his 1.9 million followers - many of whom are real - the reckless and utterly absurd claim that "the whole of the UK is hitting the streets tonight", while labeling the suspect a "third world savage".
Robinson’s language is deliberately provocative and escalatory. His history includes convictions for contempt, assault, etc., and such rhetoric can rally supporters and risks disorder.
The best outcome is a thorough, transparent investigation (motive, full background, any prior flags) followed by honest debate befitting of any civilised democracy.
In the UK, the rule of law applies to everyone: suspects should get due process, victims should get justice, and citizens should get answers.
Some people might reasonably describe someone convicted of assault, leading violent public brawls, and kicking an off-duty police officer in the head, as a "savage".