Tom Gleeson
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In a border poll, the southern ‘No’ campaign will shock and appal many Irish people. Insufficient attention has been given to a key paradox: The stronger the Republic is, the easier it is to get an NI yes vote...but the more RoI voters have to lose.
If a border poll arrives, the southern ‘No’ campaign will shock and appal many Irish people
Why should the Republic vote for a united Ireland? For over a century, the answer to this question has been seen as so self-evident that rarely does it even get asked.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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UK PM Keir Starmer who wants to reverse the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban at Villa Park Europa game next week said:
"The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation."
Exactly sir Keir, that’s why there has been a ban in the first place.
"The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation."
Exactly sir Keir, that’s why there has been a ban in the first place.
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Des
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Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
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New York mag published an article about how kids running around yelling “6-7!” is stressing grown ups out and I guess, yeah, part of the existential experience of aging is not knowing what the kids are talking about but I find this hilarious and mundane and not worthy of think-pieces lol
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A lot of Paddies I know in the UK (this one included) are listening to this sort of thing and wondering about our status in Britain
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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A lot of Paddies I know in the UK (this one included) are listening to this sort of thing and wondering about our status in Britain
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Which would have *huge* implications for N Ireland if ever it with became a political football
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
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Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
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