Important intervention from the HoL Windsor Framework Committee on the lack of any long-term UK-EU deal on veterinary medicines covering NI. There is a stand still arrangement until 2025. Just one more loose end in the never-ending Brexit saga:

committees.parliament.uk/committee/520/…

A claim by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee that 80% of asylum seekers are coming into Ireland from Northern Ireland is not based on data, evidence or statistics, Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said rte.ie/news/politics/…

Michelle O'Neill came the NI First Minister on 3rd February 2024.

Both the FMs of Wales and Scotland have stepped down between then and today.

I just submitted my doctoral thesis at Birkbeck, University of London

My viva is in a few weeks. If I pass, I will have a long list of people in London & Ireland to thank. But I just want to say how grateful I am to Dermot Hodson and ben worthy for everything they’ve done to get me this far.

Speaking at our devolution conference, Katy Hayward highlights some of the missed opportunities for devolved policy making in Northern Ireland - notably the failure the reduce child poverty and, relatedly, limiting the impact of the two-child limit on welfare support.

#LondonMayor Is London Still 'Ungovernable'? We ask Tony Travers and a panel of experts 1/5/2024 6pm online and in-person Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck School of Social Sciences
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Breaking: Helen McEntee pulls out of British Irish Intergovernmental Conference after meeting with UK minister postponed irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

NEW statement from SDLP: SDLP makes history selecting Barr as next Mayor of Derry and Strabane
 
The SDLP has selected Councillor Lilian Barr Cllr. Lilian Seenoi Barr (MRS BARR)-SDLP to serve as the next Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council.
 
Councillor Barr will make history as the first black

🚨 BREAKING: Humza Yousaf is set to resign as Scottish First Minister

[The Times and The Sunday Times]

“I want the war to stop now. I don't want to be displaced over and over; I only want to feel safe,” says 12-year-old Sama, standing in the rubble of her house in Rafah, Gaza.

Every child has the right to safety. Children need a ceasefire. Now.

The Universities Ireland 2024 North/South Postgraduate Scholarships' scheme is open to students who have been accepted on a Master’s Degree or are entering the first year of a PhD programme at a university on the island of Ireland. Apply online at universitiesireland.ie/northsouth-pos…

Former BBC News NI political editor Stephen Grimason, who broke the news of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, has died aged 67 after a long illness bbc.in/4deYSCu

Your periodic reminder that an extraordinary general election only occurs at Holyrood if a) 2/3 MSPs vote to dissolve the Scottish Parliament or b) the office of First Minister is unfilled after 28 days… 1/2

Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Child among at least five people who have died trying to cross English Channel, French coastguard says bbc.in/3QejLnB

A *tiny* reminder that:

1. A challenge to the Illegal Migration Act may disapply it in NI;

2. The Rwanda Bill, when enacted, may be vulnerable to disapplication in the same way as (1); and

3. Different asylum regimes in NI & GB will +++ the costs of plans like Rwanda.

An ‘original and lively history of the EU’. Paul Gillespie’s thoughtful review of my book 'Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It' in The Irish Times. Yale University Press London📚
irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

'His intention is to humanise what is often described by critics as a remote, faceless institution'

Great review of Dermot Hodson's 'Circle of Stars' in The Irish Times by Paul Gillespie. Looking forward to reading the book by Dr Kathryn Simpson & Holmes too
irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

'His intention is to humanise what is often described by critics as a remote, faceless institution'

Great review of Dermot Hodson's 'Circle of Stars' in The Irish Times by Paul Gillespie. Looking forward to reading the book by Dr Kathryn Simpson & Holmes too
irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Stormont brake stumble - already….
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