Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020), which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came. The PM is either ignorant of the facts — or knowingly lying.

The reality of sectarian politics taking root in English local government - 'Your Party may be in demise, but the Muslim vote is not going away' telegraph.co.uk/gift/e008b9a80…

Stella O'Malley writes to Dr Cass on the health service trial on the ethics and value of giving children puberty blockers.

This offer is still on until midnight ...

Great nd well attended evening in west Belfast discussing the Dunmanway Massacre in 1922 with descendants of Cork families on both sides. Time yet for the disappeared Protestants' bodies to be discovered and properly buried.

These two tried to get a woman at the Belfast Film Festival fired because she believes in female-only spaces.

Clear explanation from Owen Polley on the Hamas flag flying over Belfast City Hall. The Irish hatred of Israel is so total it has to be seen as pathological. In NI it is yet more extreme as the settler Jews are seen as a proxy for the planter Protestants.

Beyond amazing for the MOJ permanent secretary just to ignore a resignation letter from the Ombudsman under police investigation in charge of police investigations. He should be obliged to repay the £100,000 of salary that continued to be paid to Marie Anderson not to go to work.

Joint Committee on Human Rlights averts its gaze from a human rights abuse as per the decision of the NI Appeal Court on paying Gerry Adams his compensation. app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5436521/…

Holland on Justin - The vapid singer and the virtue-hungry politician are both dregs of a dreadful era. spiked-online.com/2025/12/09/why…

Kenova - report. Lords debate yesterday. Sir George Hamilton slapped down Hansard. share.google/C9Vw9dHFGJ9o1O…

Liam Kennedy on Ms Connolly the new Irish President after Michael D. Two of a kind?

Good to hear the Noble Lord the Minister rule out any inquiry into MI5. Ridiculous suggestion from Sir George Hamilton on the BBC

Jenrick is right – any attempt to reform the ECHR is ultimately doomed to fail. Sadly true. conservativehome.com/2025/12/11/jen… via @conhome

Police Ombudsman scandal in detail. Why was the King not asked to remove Marie Anderson as apparently only he had the power? app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5439362/…

Well worth reading on medical school caps.

Another half-baked attack on freedom of speech from Belfast City Council officials. app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5440936/…

Puberty blockers for children trial involves Northern Ireland app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5438952/…

Why are Kenova police chiefs doing politics article? This is a view not permitted on the BBC where the only issue is a demand for more investigations into the state and the security forces. That's why the NIO's new legacy bill will start to fall apart. app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5441039/…