@jontonge.bsky.social: "Starmer is more likely to win Politician of the Year 2026 than call a Border Poll [In Northern Ireland] by 2030". A quick 🧵on why I think he's mistaken. 1/7

This is quite an astonishing poll in Northern Ireland. the Belfast Telegraph would be classed as a pro-Unionist newspaper in NI. As a reminder, the Good Friday Agreement offers a process for NI to, essentially, re-join the EU with Ireland. (i.e. a reunification border poll) 1/3

Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest.

can’t stop thinking how renaming the defence department as the war department has such 10-year-old boy energy

This is one of the cliff edges experts like @vivamjm.bsky.social were warning about prior to the brexit vote. In brief, supply chains have evolved 50+ years...as borders, barriers & bureaucracy vanished with the SM. It's not possible to "make brexit work" and you can't eat a blue passport. 5/5

In London this week and it's a little jarring how Orban is being reported by BBC & others. They correctly describe him as a pal of Putin, Trump & the Far Right, yet, they would never use the same to describe Nigel Farage, who's Reform party candidates are regularly platformed on the BBC. 1/5

I cannot be the only one to notice the Greens beating Reform and Labour out of the park in almost every by-election recently. Yet, GE polls suggest a lead with Reform and their candidates are all over BBC current affairs programmes. Has the penny finally dropped with the English electorate?

Thousands of people lined Dublin’s O’Connell Street for an event marking the 110th anniversary of the armed rebellion against British rule in Ireland. jrnl.ie/7004144

Dublin Ireland #Dublin #streetphotography #photography

Dublin Ireland #Dublin #streetphotography #photography

Skål & Slainte for my forefathers who founded Dublin! #ALAW #lufc #guinness #dublin

great speech. great insights. re: reunification in Ireland👇

true but I'm reminded of a German TV special comparing Irish to German reunification. Their biggest mistake was they rushed it and that's still a problem today. Britain faces a fiscal crisis not seen since the 1970s, with English nationalists wanting an ECHR exit, cutting NI loose might follow.

I notice some suggesting the UK should have a "proper" debate about the EU. Fun fact: the UK has been debating that for 10 years. Quick 🧵on why the UK really needs a debate about the UK. 1/6

Khalidi's previous book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" was so prescient. He argued the conflict is not a struggle between two equal national movements, but a colonial war waged by great powers against an indigenous population. His lecture is in Belfast, too!

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I'll completely change my mind when we hit the playoffs, of course, when clubs send their top teams. and in fairness the SA teams coming in has added a certain gravitas to the URC. I agree about top 14.

St Helen's is the main headline, but the grassroots and youth program is both exciting and unbelievably smart, both from a general rugby and survival point of view.

There were joyous scenes at Dublin airport as O’Connor came home from the world indoor championships in Poland. the42.ie/6992958

Oi, LEINSTER PEOPLE 🔵 I’m coming to the Scarlets match on Friday and I believe this means we have to fight or something? A Guinness is fine too

Keego joins me to look ahead to Saturday’s big URC clash at Scotstoun > harpinonrugby.blog/2026/03/20/5... #GLAvLEI #BKTURC

I reckon when historians write the history of this will be probably conclude that the Founding Fathers should have given Congress some sort of involvement in the decision to go to war.

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Trumps "threats & tariffs" bullyboy strategy latest. Trump: "China will lose the US market-" China: "We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States". h/t @channel4news.bsky.social for the clip.

GB should be proud to be part of this small, but very exclusive, club. this quote springs to mind: "A man is judged by the company he keeps"

This deal with Iceland might seem trivial to many but this is actually a very Big moment for the EU. For decades, trade treaties & travel agreements was the core remit of the EU. Now, security has been added to the list of benefits.

some argue labour, or bennites, have been anti EU for decades. Here's Tony Benn outlining labours anti EU policy, 50 years ago, before the 1st brexit referendum. Reeves echoes him today. 👇

@piwakawaka-r.bsky.social @bikepedantic.bsky.social

Liquid reflection of an Irish Atlantic rainforest, in the rain.

Jessie Buckley is the first Irish woman to win Best Actress at the #Oscars

no way to cherry pick their way out of this.

As Icelands EU referendum, to continue talks stalled in 2013 to become full EU members, draws closer; here's a quick 🧵on what it means for Brexit Britain. TL;DR: No more "closer ties" or cherry picking for the UKgov. 1/7

Amid historic geopolitical shifts, the EU is expanding: westward. Iceland and Norway, long de facto integrated, are moving to make it formal. Not the enlargement anyone was watching for. So much for European powerlessness.

Every time I read what a UK minister says about the EU it almost feels like they're assuming we have the same power as members. We're not negotiating, we're making representations. Only EU institutions are negotiating their rules.

@fotoole.bsky.social puts it very well

Thank you @catsmithmp.bsky.social for recognising that the British voting system is unfit for purpose

Worth a read: (thanks to @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social )

@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social is not pulling any punches. Don’t understand Starmer’s reluctance to make some big strides towards EU.

Stock Markets across the World, ready to open tomorrow morning. h/t @alifarhat79

a great weekend for Irish rugby.

A lively and hard-fought Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 encounter in Dungarvan GAA Grounds saw Meath edge out Waterford after a contest that ebbed and flowed throughout #RTEGAA

As Iceland fast-tracks a public referendum about full EU membership, this is perhaps a good time to remind Britons that the EU has changed a lot in the last 10 years and at a new crossroads. Quick 🧵on the actual options available now to brexit britain and this new EU.

Oh God people found my post about UK dual nationals and the passport farrago. Take it outside guys

Reclaiming the 🇮🇪 from those who tarnish it through their hatred, racism and xenophobia starts in schools. The 12th Annual Thomas F. Meagher educational campaign on the history of the Irish Tricolour launched. #IrishHistory www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Please repost and help try and find this person. last seen in the twickenham area, at about 2pm on Saturday.

Another triumph for Goodwin's campaign. No doubt he'll continue to pretend he cares about anti-semitism. www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...