If the Conservatives rip up rail plans for the North, they may as well rip up their "plans" to level up. Labour would deliver HS2 and the Integrated Rail Plan in full. To do anything else would be a complete betrayal of the North. #PMQs

Pls DO share this👇 One reason it's still happening is, frankly, apathy. Govt & business know what's going on. But confronting it is too awkward. So they're hoping folks forget about it. The upshot is Russia can carry on selling us oil/gas & buying our stuff via the backdoor

In 2023 - 141,600 people came to Ireland: - 29,600 returning Irish emigrants - 26,100 EU citizens - 4,800 from UK - 40,000 from Ukraine - 30,981 with work permits - 13,277 protection applicants While 64,000 emigrated. Housing is the problem. The solution is to build houses.

Yep—Irish housing politics are funny to me because the country has a pop of a midsized US metro, fewer than pre-famine, and debates have already reached the "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" stage This building in Utah is 18 stories taller than anything in Ireland

Didn't see this referenced on any major media outlet. It's only through a few brave reporters and social media videos that there is any coverage at all. The only coverage Ukraine gets in Ireland is when Harris or Pearse Doherty use Ukrainians as a political football.

So now we know government will OK the tunnel to Euston. Some sanity is restored. But that’s not the crucial question. What people should be asking is ‘how many platforms does the government want to see at Euston’?

annie get your gunch Armand Domalewski Noah Berlatsky made that analogy, as well as the analogy to famous US mass lynchings/pre-'60s race riots. x.com/nberlat/status… The thing is, we actually know that Trump has had this in mind for several years, and ... well, there's good news and bad news: 🧵

All EU countries do massive transshipments to Russia via Central Asia. Sweden doesn't. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is above all a test to see if EU leaders know the difference between right and wrong. Sweden and Finland clearly have a moral compass. The rest of the EU doesn't...

This, and I say this advisedly, is an idiotic decision by Shabana Mahmood MP. We have record backlogs and record delays in the Crown Courts. It takes 5 years for rape cases to come to trial. And the backlog is growing. And the government is *cutting* even further. Madness.

❗️It is necessary to accept that Russia will continue to receive leading Western parts for its missiles. No one is interested in stopping this, - Budanov to Bloomberg 😔 "If you open any of these missiles or drones, you will see that they are full of western components."

Research in Holland found 24 confirmed cases of people euthanised “simply because of the symptoms of having a learning disability or autism” with 15 other possibly related cases. Now many MPs want to similar measures here while STILL failing to fix social care. Shame on them

British academics openly mocking international students while at the same time being at risk redundancy because international students no longer want to study in the UK because of hostility at the border & within UK HE. Some of you need to put two and fucking two together.

If Trump wins the election on Tuesday, there is absolutely no room for moral superiority in Europe. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Europe has covered itself in shame, choosing to do business with Russia over doing everything in its power to help Ukraine and confront Putin. Shame.

The police don't do blocks of flats

look I used to say "kill yourself to Save Are NHS" as a joke but now they're actually saying it

A few moments after MPs voted for assisted dying, the Government Whip on duty objected to and blocked the Children’s Hospices (Funding) Bill.

We will keep calling it by its name, suicide, condoned, assisted, provided by the state.