The Britain of 2034 isn't likely to be much different from today – but it doesn't have to be that way ✍️Tom Ough & Calum Drysdale eu1.hubs.ly/H0c4JBr0

Alice Milligan, the Irish writer and driving force behind the Gaelic Revival, was born on this day in 1865 in Gortmore, County Tyrone, to a Methodist Ulster-Scots family.

The Naples of the Irish Sea

SPHE schoolbook depiction ‘appalling’ – Sorca Clarke TD Sorca Clarke TD vote.sinnfein.ie/sphe-schoolboo…

The tropical garden at Doha's Hamad Airport, Qatar 🇶🇦 This is what a world-class airport looks like. The whole place is clean, modern, and functions flawlessly. Why can't we have this in the UK? Instead of accepting decline, we should be aiming to top this at London Heathrow 🇬🇧

Campbell's Farm. Glasmullen Road, Glenariff, Co Antrim. early 1900s (NLI)

This is a great thread on the 'oldest pub' question. But what we can be sure of is that the oldest built structure that's now a pub (or part of a pub) is the Neolithic megalith incorporated into the Oxenham Arms in Devon (the South Zeal menhir)

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The Provincial Middle Class are now regularly deploying the word ‘Weird’ a mere two months after the sophisticated and fashionable American Metropole

So Macron appointed a center-right Prime Minister, which means that Le Pen's party will effectively play the pivotal role in the Assembly, because without the support of left-wing deputies the government will only be able to avoid a no-confidence vote as long as Le Pen allows it.

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The likely next German chancellor: knife attacks happen almost daily, 2 gang rapes happen every day on average in Germany, the majority of the perpetrators are young migrants who are entirely disrespectful of women. "This is the reality of Germany and we must end it."

For anyone wondering how Athens came to look like this, I wrote about it a while back for the BBC bbc.com/culture/articl…

V good, but on the downside, you still can’t bring back duty free Greek cigarettes 😤

Good haul today courtesy of The Linen Hall’s 2nd hand bookshop

All of the feels of an Airport without rail connections to an actual airport. 🤦

Tony Blair denies that he had an open-door policy on immigration and implies that current levels are too high and that most of his immigration was European

Around 10,000 foreign national offenders in prison & about 11,000 in the community subject to deportation orders. At least 50% of total in custody could be deported back to countries that have treaties with us. Total removals at last count: 3,500 (increase of 19%) Focus *here*