Bernard Ryan

UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to ceasefire Cabinet agrees to support Middle East roadmap at emergency meeting called amid humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Sorry but how does this address a policy of starvation? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happened to be there, impressed by their support for the Palestinian cause.

Indicative ballot results are out!
Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...

Going back to Uganda, just like you suggested !

Trump demands Guardians and Commanders revert to previous names out of respect for Native Americans Donald Trump demanded in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the NFL’s Washington Commanders and MLB’s Cleveland Guardians revert to their old names

Pure settler colonial revivalism
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Labour suspends Diane Abbott for second time over racism comments Party investigating after MP said she did not regret remarks about people experiencing racism in different ways

But her point is correct, no? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Opinion | Revenge, Thy Name Is Emil Bove

If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

Calls for removal of ‘racist’ migrant effigies in boat placed on loyalist bonfire in NI Mannequins put on top of huge bonfire in Moygashel on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone

Calls for removal of ‘racist’ migrant effigies in boat placed on loyalist bonfire in NI

Mannequins put on top of huge bonfire in Moygashel on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone

Moygashel Bonfire

This is the Moygashel 12th July bonfire. Many bonfires receive huge funding and backing from loyalist paramilitary groups. The PSNI facilitate this and councils clean up after them.

This paramilitary backed hate is being justified live on BBC Radio Ulster. The state is rotten to the core.

Such overt racism is not business as usual. It’s striking how it claims inspiration from a policy slogan of the last UK Government.

Calls for removal of ‘racist’ migrant effigies in boat placed on loyalist bonfire in NI

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Superdiverse box ticking.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

There really is a difference between migration and settling in a place as part of a colonial project. The latter tends to lead - as here - to a mindset of superiority and exclusion.

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunism, says Lanre Bakare, an arts and culture correspondent for the Gu...

This piece is well-meant, but includes the unfortunate statement that “most of the people attacking immigrants and the police were Protestants whose own families emigrated to Ireland generations before” …
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How about collecting nationality and ethnicity data for all serious crime?

Strikes on Iran ease pressure on Israel to end starvation in Gaza Critics of war will be more reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv

Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Los Angeles, city of immigrant protests: why it’s no surprise LA rose up against Trump For decades, LA has been at the center of the civil rights and immigrants’ rights movements – and Trump’s raids appear to be mobilizing a new generation

The more we see of Trumpism v immigrants, the more its settler colonial dimension becomes apparent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also … will Gibraltar have any input into admissions to Spain/ Schengen?

The legal and operational detail will be interesting for the precedents they set.

It’s also different to the British/ Irish common travel area arrangement, as neither of those states would allow the other’s officials to take entry decisions at their ports.

Dual control at ports of arrival is really quite different to dual controls at points of embarkation. It implies that a person who party A would admit won’t be because party B says no.

UK and Spain strike ‘historic’ deal over Gibraltar’s future and borders People to be able to move across land border with no checks, and airport to have Eurostar-style dual border checks

UK and Spain announce dual border control system at Gibraltar ports: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme... ' @ICEgov Contact us if you were harmed by an alien. 855-48-VOICE ICE.gov/voice

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

The thinness of UK democracy is also seen in the potential for elective dictatorship. An unrepresentative electoral system, without a written constitution as a defence.

Trumpism is 19th century settler colonialism, but with socials.

European year of the Normans reopens debate over Irish identity Ministers approve Ireland’s participation in cultural initiative but Sinn Féin calls commemoration offensive

Why did the Normans build so many castles? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

…There has to be a policy response to address voters anxieties, but in ceding the intellectual ground so absolutely to his opponents and setting himself and the government up for likely failure, the risk for the PM is that he may well empower Farage even further.

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants.

So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House.

The hypocrisy is outrageous.