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Richard North -
15 June 2026
Now that the Mail has lifted the lid on the Home Office’s “dirty tricks” department, it is evident that the government is not playing a straight bat when it comes to dealing with public reactions to the failures of multiculturalism. Details set out by the paper include revelations that, while the streets of Belfast were… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
14 June 2026
There is a singular problem with political punditry, when it comes to predicting the outcomes of by-elections. Essentially, anyone knowledgeable enough to be assessing the odds, based on the ebb and flow of political discourse, is going to be far more knowledgeable than the average voter in the target constituency. Thus, their reactions will be… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
13 June 2026
The resignation of John Healey and others from the Labour defence ministerial team have brought the legacy media defence correspondents and sundry pundits out to play. But, to illustrate once again that we are no longer a serious nation, much of the media emphasis has been on the political ramifications of the resignations rather than… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
12 June 2026
I’m not going to get excited about the resignation of John Healey as defence secretary, even if he has been joined by Al Carns and parliamentary secretary Pamela Nash. Although the political impact may be profound, in the shorter-term, Healey’s passing will not make the slightest bit of difference to our defence status. He has… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
11 June 2026
It was harder to work out what was going on yesterday evening in Northern Ireland. This is often the case when trying to follow events on X, as they mature. The previous day’s footage – some of it previously unseen – gets mixed up with current reports, the timeline gets blurred and the narrative becomes… View Article ...Read full story
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