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St Ita. Honan Chapel @ University College Cork. Stained glass art by Harry Clarke.

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A Member of the European Parliament is among those kidnapped by Israel. Yet EU still regards Israel as a law abiding State for the purposes of Art. 2 of its Association Agreement. If this was a film script, it would be rejected as too unbelievable.

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The architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born #OTD 7 June 1868. The only church he designed was St Matthew Free Church, Queens Cross, Glasgow, today the Mackintosh, an arts venue and home of the Mackintosh Society. His original furnishings survive, including this pulpit.

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Now there’s a surprise.

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Novels to re-read every decade or so, because you see something new and more insightful in them each time as you get older. The Austen canon certainly. Middlemarch. Anna Karenina. War and Peace. Crime and Punishment. Bleak House. Other suggestions?

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This is excellent from @anandMenon1 on the latest vile nonsense from Matthew Goodwin, a man whose descent in the gutter grows ever more nauseating t.co/31mdzmfwYs

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After the Brexit reset, how about a Brexit review? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The reset now needs to be delivered, including an SPS deal. Meanwhile, with the SDR we've had three defence reviews since Brexit, so why not a Brexit review? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/afte...

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UK government moves to oblige GB producers, where necessary, to label goods 'not for EU' to ensure their continued supply into Northern Ireland. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Benn: “The previous government signed agreements clearly with no intention of honouring them. That was absolutely disastrous for trust. We have to show that we can be trusted once again, because Britain's reputation was frankly trashed by the last government.” www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

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NEW The European Convention on Human Rights needs practical reform, not quitting Why the Conservatives have the wrong solution to a political problem By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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Airline passengers face loss of key rights on compensation for flight delays in EU People will only be able to apply for compensation for short and medium-haul flights delayed for over four hours while and six hours for long-haul flights www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots - on.ft.com/43IK0Z6 via @FT

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Flicker of hope for young Brits wanting to work in EU - on.ft.com/4dPVdvJ via @FT

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By an almost 2 to 1 landslide majority, the United Kingdom decided to stay in the EEC on 5 June 1975. Northern Ireland, however, only narrowly voted in favour of remaining a member, 52.2% to 47.8% ereader.irishnews.com/2025/06/07/e...

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This leaked Nov 2024 EU report provided more than enough evidence to suspend the #EU - #Israel Association Agreement. If ongoing review under @kajakallas.bsky.social is credible, it will find that Israel’s violations have only worsened since EU states must finally act. As they should've long ago.

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Ireland’s energy and climate plan far from sufficient, EU Commission finds www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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"..polarising populist politics & evaporating underlying consensus among voters This is the case across all of the continent’s democracies – which represents a dangerous weakening in the face of threats from Putin’s Russia and naked hostility from Trump’s America" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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EU officials have discussed worst-case scenarios -suspension of US support to Ukraine, cutting off intelligence and preventing EuroCountries from providing US-bought weapons; -full-scale trade & war trade losses; -rapid withdrawal from Europe of US troops and military capabilities on.ft.com/43tHfvZ

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UK doing physical checks on just 5% of imported animals, watchdog says “significant threat” to biosecurity posed by ministers’ failure to fully implement post-Brexit measures - on.ft.com/4jxH0o8 via @FT

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Exhibit A in support of the observation that, since 5 July 2024, former critics of “judicial activism”, “lawfare”, and judicial review as “politics by other means” and “undemocratic” seem suddenly to have changed their tune. What can have happened on that date to produce this Damascene conversion?

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My Trade Secrets today. Cheer up, the worst might yet be to come. Donald Trump's tariffs mainly damage the US. If the courts really do block them and/or they don't work and he turns to other things like manipulating the global dollar payments system, it could be far worse. First 300 clicks free.

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UK government scraps plans for checks on EU fruit and veg www.gov.uk/government/n...

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"The EU should suspend the accord even if a fresh ceasefire is negotiated between Israel and Hamas militants, according to Varadkar. Israel portrays itself as a western liberal democracy, but is “none of those things”, the former Fine Gael leader says" www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aw2...

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Fintan O’Toole: Netanyahu’s big lie is that ‘They’ are not really the same species as ‘Us’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Why Europe must support independent journalism in (and about) Ukraine, Belarus and Russia

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on.ft.com/4kEKiae

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Grim. Atracks on lawyers and the law have been going on here in the UK for some time now. It's just getting normalised.

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I've signed up and expect good things, as I've found @rolandmcs.bsky.social one of the most consistently interesting posters here & on Twitter. Why not give his Substack a try?

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BREAKING: Appeals court halts ruling that blocked Trump's tariffs www.axios.com/2025/05/29/t...

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It will soon be 12 years since the EU last enlarged. Time for another enlargement? Von der Leyen: "accession will always be a merit-based process. But I am convinced that history is calling us now... this is a historic moment. And we must not let it pass us by" www.politico.eu/article/buil...

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Poland’s new president puts EU billions and trade goals at risk “This will now make it difficult for the Tusk government to reconstruct the rule of law in this important EU member state.” on.ft.com/4kKh61F via @FT

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www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a... Britain wants to buy US fighter jets capable of firing tactical nukes, in a major expansion of the deterrent intended to counter a growing Russian threat. (So UK nuke capability could match France and together they could offer some sort of nuke umbrella for Europe?)

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"Europe is keen to provide Ukraine with replacements for missing US supplies, but it’s struggling to procure the weapons Kyiv needs fast enough and at a reasonable cost. Many of the commitments made will take years to appear on a battlefield" on.ft.com/4kiUK7z via @FT

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www.politico.eu/article/eu-r... It used to be one of the iron laws of Brexit. Not anymore. “This is not about cherry-picking or not cherry-picking. We have identified a number of issues that are of mutual interest,” say EU envoy to UK

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The report by @antonspisak.bsky.social says: “Exports have historically contributed positively to UK real GDP growth. Since 2020, however, exports have become a drag on UK GDP growth, on average subtracting nearly 0.5% per annum”. ‪@theneweuropean.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/B7sEZxR

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The German term for forcing institutions to become in sync with the demands of an authoritarian movement is "Gleichschaltung"

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Truly magnificent

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💡New! Softening Brexit is welcome, but still far from the soft Brexit we need argue Owen Parker and Matthew Bishop. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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"Americans are really concerned about free speech around the world... especially when it comes to Britain!" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn warns of the American perception that "the UK is not a liberal country anymore", but adds "thank goodness we are". #Newsnight

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youtu.be/JKxN3L3vpEY?... @dphinnemore.bsky.social

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Yesterday @katyhayward.bsky.social, @vgravey.bsky.social, @billymeloaraujo.bsky.social and I gathered to discuss developments around the Windsor Framework, our latest @lucidtalk.bsky.social polling on NI voters views, and the UK-EU 'reset'. Here's what we had to say: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKxN...

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UPDATE: I've written a deeper dive on these numbers and what's driving this unprecedented judicial pushback. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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What a stupid, avoidable mess. Thanks for nothing, Elon Musk and Donald Trump

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🚨🚨Thought-provoking piece here by @sbeverts.bsky.social on the art of 'unpowering #Russia'. Key excerpts in 🧵: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer, saviour of Brexit? www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist

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The international rule of law is fragile, and rests on democratic consent. So I'm glad this letter was written - not least because it points in a more constructive direction than the knee-jerk response of ECHR withdrawal. www.agenzianova.com/en/news/la-l...

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