'Where does the real power lie in Sinn Fein' ?.....
Here's a clue. It's not with Mary Lou McDonald or Michelle O'Neill.
Another great piece from the redoubtable Sam McBride

An undertaker told the nurse she wouldn't be allowed in the grounds of the council-run crematorium for her mum's funeral due to Covid regulations. Yet just hours later, mourners gathered in Roselawn for Bobby Storey's cremation.

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UK government control of implementing the Irish Sea border has already resulted in the closing down of information available to the public, after a question by Baroness Hoey was rejected. newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

Those who wish to see the back of Jim Allister’s party will be disappointed with our poll. The TUV / Reform UK has doubled its support from 4% late last year to 8%, putting it level with the SDLP.
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Just when you thought Stormont couldn’t become any more dysfunctional!
What’s the point in Stormont if all these powers can be exercised by SOS?

'Utter confusion' amid the handover of Stormont powers to London, says scrutiny committee chair Tom Elliott newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

Tonight, as we sleep soundly in our beds, we remember the bravery, determination, and sacrifice of the men of 617 Sqn who, 81 years ago tonight, undertook the daring #Dambusters mission. Many of them paid the ultimate price for the mission's success. They will not be forgotten.

People have been contacting me asking if I was going on the TonightVMTV EU debate tonight. I wasn’t invited as that’s only for the ones they like and want voted in again and not for people like me who are against the Government and Shinners. All explained below 👇

Irish police have returned 50 people to the United Kingdom in recent months amid attempts to tackle illegal immigration from Northern Ireland – some of whom have been returned by train from the Republic to Belfast. newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/…

Thanks to the excellent Taxpayers’ Alliance we learn the Covid Inquiry cost £300K a day last year, employing an unbelievable 257 civil servants full time.
And at north of £200million+ it will be the most expensive public inquiry ever.
I like the reaction in The Times to the

Britain is paying the price for surrender to the EU

The UK can’t control its borders because Sunak did not heed my warnings on the Northern Irish Protocol

Martin Howe KC

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The BBC couldn’t possibly ever consider hilighting IRA terrorism. All part of the regular revisionism about the IRA

The Windsor Framework demolished democracy in Norther Ireland

The EU runs it

And through it, all of us

Being rude to me when I pointed this out, turns out to not be a magical solution to this truth. 😐

Understandable scrutiny of the DUP following the released WhatsApp messages. Yet, it's ironic that while demanding greater scrutiny and accountability for others, both the Alliance Party and Sinn Féin chose to erase their messages against legal counsel. What are they concealing?

Looking forward to this rally. The Protocol and Windsor Framework is now proving to damage not just Northern Ireland but the rest of the United Kingdom. EU rule must end in Northern Ireland

The very fact the U.K. has to get an agreement with a foreign power, the EU, to allow passage of UK trade deal produce to NI, underscores how much the Protocol bestowed and maintains sovereignty over NI to Brussels.

This article in ⁦Belfast News Letter⁩ shows how people in Northern Ireland have been disenfranchised by the Windsor Framework. Democracy should matter to the whole of the United Kingdom

The EU judgment doesn’t apply in GB, but due to the Protocol- the relevant directive does apply in NI & due to section 7A overrides any other domestic law.

So those charged under encrochat can rely on it!

The Protocol strikes again. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/wi…

Jamie Bryson Jamie Bryson is right. The Rwanda Act was challenged on two bases: incompatibility with the Windsor Framework and incompatibility with Convention rights. It is only by the continued application of *EU* law in NI that the court was able to *disapply* provisions of the Rwanda Act

Yes Duncan but perhaps you need to read the judgment; the legislation was disapplied on the basis of **EU law** not the ECHR. Breaches of ECHR lead only to a declaration.

There is no facility for disapplication under the ECHR (applying via the HRA 1998), this tool only applies

I think when it comes to a legal point I would bet on Jamie being right rather than a Politics lecturer !