President Barack Obama on the violence in Gaza. Full interview out Tuesday.

UK voters are very weary of 15 years of austerity and its impact on incomes and services, and thus on the quality of life - and they keep voting for ‘change’. The challenges of moving the dial on this continues to feed the appetite for populism.

After Canada, now Australia votes against the right. And, as in Canada the opposition leader loses his seat.

Much like Elon Musk elsewhere I suspect.

The UK Labour Party now has two role models and fewer excuses

Major defeat for Newscorp in its home country today. ‘The Australian’ newspaper is clearly devastated,

Quite staggeringly infantile.

Sunshine on the Foyle this morning

Attending #FuturePSMinNI at Ulster University today, opened by Dr Phil Ramsey School of Communication and Media and Director of Community Engagement Duncan Morrow. Looking at public service broadcasting funding, how can involve audience, what is their consumption, and governance.

Dancing on the street in the sunshine 🌞 to celebrate 50years of a Ballynafeigh Community House and one if the most successful community-based intercultural districts in Belfast. A genuinely remarkable story.

Sunshine days in Belfast: City Hall, St Anne’s Cathedral, St Patricks and Carlisle Memorial while Napoleon sleeps on Cave Hill. Views from Ulster Uni

Closer alignment has been the solution to the Irish Sea border since the beginning. Good to see reality catching up. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Great turnout for the Taking Boys Seriously Educators Conference Ulster University Focussing on how to engage with boys and young men in a time of significant challenges for boys in education

Ken Bloomfield was a crucial advocate for change in NI from within the system. His work after retirement was groundbreaking, especially in relation to victims. Along with Maurice Hayes and George Quigley he was a key public servant enabling NI’s transition in the 1990s.

I’m convinced the association of cycling with the carry basket more than with lycra is a key step in normalising it as an everyday activity for all ages and genders. Not getting into the hemet debate -but few on view in Meran/o last week while the off-road tracks were brilliant.

Stork stalking in Belfast this morning - at Annadale.

Just back from the hospital where my sister is seriously ill and being cared for by night nurses who came here from Africa and Asia. So this is unbearable, shameful and disgusting to me. And committed by children given implicit ‘permission’ by adults. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Not normally a grammar-extremist, but this is a crime against the apostrophe.

Getting to the cruelty and shocking human, social and economic cost of racially-motivated violence in NI at today’s seminar on ‘Planning our way out of Division’ Ulster University. Nothing about this builds a better future, for anyone.

Today’s judgement on the A5 is a disaster for the Department of Infastructure: this is the fourth time courts have rejected plans since first proposed in… 2007! Surely someone read Stormont’s own environmental requirements? Seems careless and v.costly. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…