Hints and tips:
...You can’t ever forget that. There was nothing inevitable about it.”...
...“It’s really hitting home that people born now, and in the recent past, are going to face a very difficult future if we don’t make different choices to ones we’re making today,” Hawkins said....
...“I don’t see any hardcore sceptics in there.”...
...Addressing a Westminster committee this week, former DUP first minister Arlene Foster gave short shrift to Ireland having changed its constitution to sacrifice its territorial claim to Northern Ireland,...
...“I don’t think this [ruling] will change the DUP’s point of view on [the protocol],” she added....
..., this is not a revisionist staging: it won’t rock the boat....
...Arlene Foster descends from her chauffeur-driven Land Rover smiling, even though she has little to smile about. Northern Ireland’s first minister is the latest casualty of Brexit....
...You couldn’t do that if he was a Muslim. You wouldn’t do that if he was any other religion.”...
...“I will support Arlene all the way,” said Alison Bennington, a DUP councillor in Glengormley. “I don’t believe there will be a leadership challenge, but we will have to wait and see....
...Why hasn't the prime minister offered a clear explanation of what happened? Will he face sanctions and will it have an impact on the Conservatives in next week's local elections?...
...under threat on Monday after nationalist party Sinn Féin warned of the danger of “broken promises” and failed to immediately agree to a new administration following the departure of unionist first minister Arlene...
...Richard Bullick, a former special adviser to past DUP first ministers Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster, urged voters to be strategic....
...“The guaranteed way of ridding ourselves of the divisive protocol is through the Assembly . . . if we haven’t achieved it before then.”...
...“I don’t think that you can actually blame Arlene Foster.”...
...“I don’t want Stormont to collapse, but . . ....
...That this is possible for many residents already might explain why some don’t move far....
...This is a choice, this doesn’t have to go on, this can be brought to a conclusion today,” he said....
...It wouldn’t have taken four and a half years to negotiate and conclude if it weren't complex,” Boyle told the Financial Times....
...A UK government official said Whitehall “wouldn’t read too much into” Donaldson’s comments....
...“If elected, I will ensure that the government doesn’t just listen, but recognises the need to take decisive action to deal quickly with the protocol,” Donaldson said on Monday evening....
...“Whether you are in this latest age group, or one of the other eligible groups, please don’t delay in getting the vaccine,” said Robin Swann, Northern Ireland’s health minister....
...“We told him he didn’t have four months,” added Campbell....
...Under the Assembly’s rules, Sinn Féin must agree to work with Givan as first minister: “I can’t see why it wouldn’t be straightforward,” Poots told reporters. “We’ve got a mandate to do that job....
...Perhaps young people don’t see the point of joining a profession many expect to be automated in a decade or so....
...“We have violence on our streets in Northern Ireland that hasn’t been the case for years and that’s on the back of this protocol,” he said, adding that the EU was “playing fast and loose”....
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