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Health minister and BMA heading for a show-down.

A take of two Scotlands and the seas…

A good indication of how politically impossible it will be to ever get pension spending under control. The only thing wrong with this policy was announcing it as a one-off instead of rolling it into the budget.

People from Northern Ireland may be understandably surprised by enforcement of the Terrorism Act in Britain, as the same UK-wide legislation is... patchily enforced in Northern Ireland.

Newton Emerson: EU-UK deal is a gift to unionists. Shame so many want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

If the health minister is correct about the BMA's negotiating tactics, it's no surprise he's tried calling their bluff.

It's fair enough that DFI has a safety concern with a greenway leading onto a bike path beside a dual carriageway. But it has no concern with that bike path ending abruptly where the road narrows, tipping cyclists into 60mph single-lane traffic.

The second shock here is the generational divide: overall home ownership in the Republic is 70%, high by international standards.

When it was Stormont's largest party, the DUP took a position - or posture, anyway - of sober financial responsibility. It doesn't see any advantage in that stance now.

I gave the public my word that the allegations made by Sean were entirely false. I’ve been vilified & called a sectarian bully; but I was defending honourable but very hurt men & women of all faiths & none from monstrous allegations. We extend grace to Sean. Get well brother.

Winston Irvine is UVF commander but was feted by government, clerics & police. When caught red-handed with guns, he lied & lied - but still got help from people whose names read like a Who’s Who of senior figures from polite society. Read how NI works... belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

"If this offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 was enforced consistently it would criminalise half the population of Northern Ireland – or, perhaps more correctly, two-quarters of the population" Read Newton Emerson: tinyurl.com/yrzyrad2

Claims are being made about a poll which shows no change outside the margin of error.

I'm not convinced this is a compliment.

Stormont won't stop farm pollution. Environmental groups need to start bringing private prosecutions.

Newcastle could have coped and benefited from the extra visitors but this would just turn Rostrevor into a car park.

It was premature to create UK-wide counter-terrorism legislation in 2000. Northern Ireland still needs to be treated as a special case. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

This is very clever politics, but how bad is the problem in historic terms? I remember visiting London as a student in 1988 and being told "only tourists pay" on the underground.

Labour's sentencing reforms may be driven by panic about overcrowded prisons, but there are still some really good ideas, like replacing automatic remission with earned remission.

Stormont gets a dire warning about farm pollution from its chosen environmental regulator, yet every executive party except Alliance is determined to ignore it. newsletter.co.uk/news/environme…