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Left: Kiki McDonough, "The civil service to me is completely overmanned, not working properly" Right: For those of us who had to google who she is, she's a fifth generation jeweller, and her ex-husband Lord Kenilworth, is in the house of Lords, which of course makes her perfect

The executives in BBCNI seem happy to play fast and loose with the money from the licence fee. Multiple court cases lost, Adams only being the latest. Multiple people put under huge personal pressure only for deals to be done at the v last minute! Ongoing failings!

Why did the BBC not settle this case? Why are they so shocked by the verdict? This response is yet further evidence of v poor management at the senior level. They live in a bubble funded by us!!! belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

Trump is a Russian is trending. Now that’s ridiculous! He can’t speak Russian! He can, of course, accept $billions to keep his businesses going, using the Deutsch Bank to transfer it…

So it seems that all the clues didn’t give them enough to go in. The guns, the UVF posters and uniforms etc… they should have called in Miss Marple…

Starmer making his speech reminded me of Jim Hacker when he started imitating Churchill. The only thing missing was “we will fight them on the beaches…”.

Perhaps if the staff in the BBC and civil service had some personal responsibility with consequences they might take more care with their decisions. As it is the individuals stay in post and retain their pensions even if they screw up. That safety blanket needs removed.

Nothing floats the boat of a UK Prime Minister as much as putting on a tin hat and preparing for war! The UK politicians think it’s about 100 years ago. Wilson was the last one with the chutzpah to resist the US demands to go to Vietnam. Starmer just sounded silly.

Interesting article: it does raise the possibility the the people in the south are more English than in the north which was populated by Scots, and Scotland avoided Norman invasion: :-) The truth behind the Normans and Ireland: irishtimes.com/history/2025/0…

Good to see the Greggs press release was picked up again by Belfast Telegraph One wonders if the media world has changed since my time and you can pay for stories and not just ads…

I remember when Thatcher sold off the family silver with promises of great joy when the private sector took over utilities. Thames Water is £22billion in debt. A monopoly with not accountability has paid shareholders £billions, and now is sinking fast!

Time to ask the mega rich who proclaim their patriotism from on high to put their hands in their pockets and fund Starmer’s defence budget…I’m sure they’ll do so happily…

We needed Andrew Fisher on #PoliticsLive again today (and probably every day) to point out that Germany, Spain, Italy and France all receive more asylum seekers than the UK so claiming they all want to come to the UK is yet more nonsense from Claire Fox.

A reality check…

The older I get the more I realize that people who go into politics have egos that outweigh any ideals. They will flip around from left to right depending on their assessment of which will get them into power. Hendricks is the current poster boy of the immoral party.

The most amazing thing about the rise of the authoritarian right is that there are literally millions of people who vote against their own interests, and they know they’re doing it, but still elect people who despise them! It’s bizarre.

Two headlines that sum up the ridiculous nature of NI politics.

The irony of modern right wing politics funded by oil is that they oppose any real action on climate change and the one thing that is going to increase immigration above all others is…climate change! Equatorial countries are becoming unlivable due to the temperature! #R4Today

George Best in the European Cup final in ‘68. Note how often George rolls around as if he’s been shot! (Not once!). Also it’s hard for younger people to understand how heavy the ball was in those days… facebook.com/share/v/1ALe5c…

I’m losing it. I said thank you to Alexa…