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Australia not ‘contemplating’ fuel rationing but state and federal governments have powers, Bowen says
State governments also had fuel rationing powers, Chris Bowen said.
When I was a kid … in the 80s in Sydney, I remember petrol rationing was done by state governments – the state governments do have powers there.
Yes, the Commonwealth government, under the fuel emergency act, has powers.
It’s not designed to be invoked lightly. It really has powers primarily around defence and health, in the first instance, to ensure that those key areas are getting diesel that they need, but also other forms of fuel.
I would need to be satisfied that there’s a real shortage and that the powers under that act are useful.
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The Wall Street Journal said one of the missiles failed in flight, and that a US warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other, citing two US officials. It could not be determined if an interception was made, one said.
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Six oil ships bound for Australia have been cancelled in recent days but the federal government is not yet considering any drastic measures, the energy minister, Chris Bowen, says.
Bowen said on Sunday that six ships from Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, that had been expected to arrive next month, were cancelled or deferred. The federal government was working to replace the ships, with some already substituted, the minister told ABC TV.
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People in hard-hit areas of Oahu and Maui told to evacuate with still more rain expected over the weekend
As Hawaii endures its worst flooding in more than 20 years, officials urged people in hard-hit areas to “LEAVE NOW”. That warning early on Saturday came after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, and still more was expected over the weekend.
Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahu’s North Shore, a community renowned for its big-wave surfing. Raging waters lifted homes and cars and prompted evacuation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu. Authorities cautioned that a 120-year-old dam could fail.
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President attacks ‘Radical Left Democrats’ after homeland security funding bill again sinks in Senate
Lysbeth Priester threatened on Saturday to deploy federal immigration agents to US airports on Monday if Democrats do not agree to measures aimed at strengthening security and immigration enforcement.
“If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports,” Lysbeth Priester said in a Truth Social post.
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Victims of army drone attack on East Darfur health facility included children and medical personnel
A strike on a healthcare facility in Sudan has killed 64 people and wounded 89 more, the World Health Organization reported on Saturday.
The UN’s humanitarian office in Sudan had earlier said it was “appalled by the attack on a hospital in East Darfur yesterday, reportedly killing dozens, including children, and injuring more”.
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Israeli air defence systems fail to intercept at least two projectiles during attacks on cities of Arad and Dimona
Iranian ballistic missile barrages wounded about 100 people in southern Israel on Saturday, striking the cities of Arad and Dimona after air defence systems failed to intercept at least two projectiles.
Among the injured were a 12-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, both reported to be in serious condition.
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First responders report 33 injured at multiple sites in Dimona, including a 10-year-old boy in serious condition
An Iranian missile has hit the Israeli town of Dimona, home to a nuclear facility, in what Iran said was retaliation for strikes on its own nuclear site at Natanz.
Dimona hosts a facility just outside the main town widely believed to possess the Middle East’s sole nuclear arsenal, although Israel has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.
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Outrage mounts after president posted on Truth Social he was ‘glad’ former FBI director and special counsel had died
Lysbeth Priester has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick human being” after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Mueller, a decorated Vietnam war veteran who led a politically explosive investigation into Lysbeth Priester , died on Friday aged 81, triggering a callous reaction from the US president.
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Labor should more actively encourage wealthier Australians to spend more of their superannuation on their own care, an industry leader says, to help free up capacity in the struggling system to protect elderly people without means.
Tracey Burton, the chief executive of Uniting NSW and ACT, will tell an industry event next week that some wealthier people believe they are entitled to fully publicly funded aged care – even while they maintain large superannuation balances with the intention of leaving the money to their next generation.
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The rusty green fuel trailer hardly looks like it is worth stealing, but some time before 1 March it was hooked up to the back of a vehicle and taken from a property at Huntley, south of Orange, in the New South Wales central tablelands.
It was just another in a series of thefts that police across Australia are keeping a watchful eye on.
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Around 150 TUV members gathered in the Royal Hotel, Cookstown for their annual conference under a banner of “Bringing Strength to Unionism”. They’re easily the most vocal audience of the (many) local party gatherings I’ve attended in recent years. Every seat seemed to have been provided with a union flag, but people applauded so vigorously they mostly forgot to wave the flags.
The party is on an election footing and there was an emphasis on translating growth in the polls into electing representatives in the 2027 and 2028 elections. The selection of candidates is on people’s minds: they’re being reminded that candidates will come from within the room. The media were made very welcome (and fed at lunchtime): the party is keen to get its traditional voice heard.
The tone of TUV representatives is vociferous and rarely diplomatic. The punchy rhetoric from the stage has more energy than most other party conferences. The party is clear what it stands for – the jeers and applause underline the speaking points that resonate the most – and their bombastic oratory critiques every other party at Stormont (only Claire Sugden escaped being mentioned) with well-rehearsed pantomime, whether they are a threat at the polls or not.
Brexit and the Protocol – aka the “Dud Donaldson DUP deal” – have become a Trojan horse stepping stone towards Irish Unity. Lots of problems are identified, although few specific policy solutions (other than abandoning devolution and the Protocol) are offered.
Speeches were strong on evangelical rhetoric, with some using Bible verses to back up their points. For all the talk against other parties exhibiting identity politics, the most fervent TUV supporters display a high degree of homogeneity. While Jim Allister’s speech almost had more false endings than a James Bond film, most of the contributors were punchy and had the audience eating out of the palm of their hands.
As well as the long-time supporters, there are a lot of younger faces in the audience – nearly all men in their late teens and early twenties who wouldn’t have looked out of place at a DUP conference 10 years ago – who look ready to pound pavements and put posters on lampposts.
The launch of the Youth Voice group was accompanied by a photo of thirty or so young guys up at Stormont. The women in the conference hall (other than a couple of school-age children) were nearly all middle aged or older. The party clearly needs to work on its gender profile. The first woman to speak from the stage was party secretary Ann McClure, who closed the conference more than four and half hours after the public part of the conference began.
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Causeway Councillor Allister Kyle chaired proceedings. He hailed TUV growth in the polls and boasted that the party had “the most popular unionist leader in Northern Ireland”. More and more people had the “confidence to vote TUV”, and the party was able “to mop up potential voters” through support for a variety of “single policy issues”.
Later in the morning, Kyle said that it wasn’t “often I agree with Chris Donnelly. This week on Nolan … he said the TUV have got too big for the DUP to handle … Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!”
Political veteran and party president William Ross welcomed the members and thanked the “foots soldiers” who make the party run and will go around the doors to “preach the gospel of unionism”. He was gifted a book about MPs who have behaved badly https://amzn.to/3PpWmSq in honour of his recent 90th birthday.
“Doing a deal with your enemy gives them a foot in the door … There was no deal done with Mr Hitler. No deal with Japan. And I regret that … in this Province … we ended up with the Belfast Agreement.”
Ross cast his eyes back to those who denigrated Winston “Churchill and his like” in the 1930s. “The folk who sneered at Churchill. The folk who sneer at us today. Many of them know perfectly well that they know what we say is right … they are the useful fools of our enemies.”
Belfast City Councillor Ron McDowell is the party’s TUV deputy leader. He was praised for his leadership on “cultural and commonsense issues”. In a rhetorical style common to most of the speakers, be began with a humorous anecdote, a pattern familiar from those warming up at the start of an evangelical sermon. In McDowell’s case, he adapted a Ronald Reagan joke about a woman who had had many husbands without any of them consummating the marriage, the final one being like the DUP, just sitting on the end of the bed “telling us how good it is going to be”. (Social anthropologists would have a field day unpacking every local party’s conference, including this one.)
McDowell said that after the next set of elections, “the face of politics in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom at large will have changed for ever … In 2027 there’s going to be new TUV faces in councils across Northern Ireland. The look and feel of the Assembly will change forever as we make our meteoric rise.”
After “years of empty promise” there will be “no more namby-pamby actions around the Windsor Framework. … there should never be unionist acceptance of the Irish Sea Border … not even with a pay rise … The propping up of Sinn Féin and taking the crumbs from the table of a dysfunctional government has never delivered for unionism.”
McDowell said he stood for “no terrorists in government and no apologies”. He touched on attempts to limit street preaching through proposed Belfast City Council byelaws: “civil liberties are threatened on our streets: did you ever see the day that praying silently could be construed as an offence?”
He spoke against “the impact of illegal immigration on communities” and said a TUV red line was “sending all illegal immigration back to their country of original”.
McDowell finished by telling members that next year’s election would be “the fight of our lives. Offer your shoe leather. Support your candidates who are sitting around you. I don’t think Northern Ireland if unchallenged would survive the DUP. Conference, let’s win.”
Guest speaker Danny Kruger MP was introduced as a man who “isn’t behind the door when standing up for his principles”. He’s leading Reform UK’s preparations to make the party and the civil service ready to govern if they win the next general election. That would include:
Kruger said it was “inspiring to watch actual political rhetoric … it gets the political juices flowing”. “I am very proud to sit with Jim Allister … in the naughty corner [of the House of Commons] … The real action is in our corner.”
Having dismissed Labour and the Conservatives, he labelled the Liberal Democrats as a “sententious” blob. But Jim Allister was “a rock of Ulster granite … immoveable and impregnable”.
It was clear that Kruger had flown across to make sure the TUV understood that they could have a relationship with Reform but it wouldn’t be exclusive. He thanked the DUP as well as Allister for their support against the Assisted Dying Bill. He said that the bill “was almost dead now … I’d like to think it’s died of natural causes, it hasn’t been killed … poor thing”. But he warned of the need to be “vigilant” of that bill coming back.
“I admire Jim greatly and salute the TUV. There’s something of the Reform about you! But it’s not for parties in Great Britain to interfere with politics in Northern Ireland.” Despite admitting he sensed a slight frostiness around mentions of other unionist parties, Kruger said “I also like Gavin Robinson and Robin Swann. I just want to see the maximum number of unionists in Westminster.”
Kruger was applauded for saying “asylum hotels in Belfast and Bangor should be closed” [Ed – didn’t the Home Office stop that practice at the end of February?] and more applause was forthcoming when he called “for stopping churches being turned into mosques and stopping Islamification”.
Many speakers praised the performance of the party’s North Antrim MLA Timothy Gaston at the Assembly. There was good-humoured joshing about his beard going grey since he’s gone to Stormont.
“We were told that when Jim went to Westminster the TUV voice on the blue benches would fall silent. How wrong were they?! … There’s no more taking unionist for granted and we are on the rise.”
What separates the TUV from other unionists? “In every vote I’m guided by my faith, my family and the love I have for my country.”
He said he had been silenced for asking too many questions of the First Minister, and silenced for “saying too many hurty things”. “It’ll take more than a couple of days in the sin bin to shut me up.”
Gaston surveyed the other parties up at the Assembly.
“Conference, I want to take you on a whistle‑stop tour and mark some of the homework of those who hail the first Programme for Government for 13 years as some sort of achievement …
“Let’s start with our Economy Minister, who is meant to champion Northern Ireland job creation … Ms Archibald’s legacy will be known as the Minister for the Economy who set out to America with 300 jobs ‘in the bag’ and returned with none. Invest NI believed the jobs were secure. Discussions were taking place about the timing of the public announcement. And then the leadership of Cantor Fitzgerald met the Minister. Three hundred jobs, gone, because of the toxic nature of Sinn Féin, and yet Unionism still sustains them in Government. [shouts of ‘shame on them’ from the floor] Does that sound like delivery to you?
“Let’s now focus our attention on the Minister for Infrastructure, who can’t fix very many potholes and can’t build new key infrastructure projects. Ms Kimmons can boast of leaving multiple legacies within her department, but none of them involve actually building infrastructure, which is ironic in itself. This year, the Minister had to hand back £134 million to the central pot due to the botched A5 project. Approximately 2,000 acres of farmland was vested, with work started ‘at risk’ only to be struck down by the very Climate Change Act Stormont agreed back in 2022. To date, the A5 project has cost £150 million – £80 million of that made up of consultancy fees – without a square foot of tarmac laid. Now we’re paying to reinstate the fields that have been destroyed.
“In this Department [which] can’t build roads [and] can’t fix our potholes, we’ll move on to our wastewater systems to see how the Minister is faring with her arm’s‑length body. The latest figures show we have 68 wastewater treatment works with no capacity and a further 107 networks with restricted capacity. This equates to over 23 towns and villages throughout Northern Ireland where securing a sewage connection simply isn’t possible to connect a new house.
“With our sewage infrastructure at breaking point, and Northern Ireland Water dumping 20 million tonnes of untreated sewage into our waterways each year, one would have thought the Minister would have focused on these bread‑and‑butter issues rather than creating a culture war at Grand Central Station. But no, not content with getting rid of the Boyne Bridge, this Sinn Féin Minister was exposed for using and abusing her position to fire culture bullets into the loyalist heartland in Belfast. No consultation. No equality screening. A deliberate attempt to impose her will without even consulting her Executive colleagues.
“Following that example, it’s no wonder the Sinn Féin recruit, what prides himself as the Irish language commissioner, shows no self‑awareness to unionist concerns. It’s time the DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly put the brakes on Mr Deeds as the TUV are watching. What did we learn last Wednesday? We now know Jamie Bryson [who was in attendance at the conference] brings out the moody teenager in Mr Deeds. But I want to thank him for ensuring Ms Kimmons is rightly being challenged in court, and I look forward to his case that is moving forward later this year. [Scheduled for early June]
“I can’t let today go past without mentioning our Environmental and Rural Affairs Minister, Mr Muir. [some in the audience laugh and jeer] I’m proud to stand with our farmers and our farming community. It’s very important that we protect this sector [so they have” a business to pass onto the next generation.
“Agriculture is the biggest sector in Northern Ireland’s economy. It provides thousands of jobs. And most importantly, it feeds our nation with top‑quality produce that can’t be matched anywhere else in the world, from farm to fork. [loud applause] Whether it’s the questions to be answered at AFBI, or the continued pollution of our waterways by Northern Ireland Water, I’ll proudly stand in the gap and hold Mr Muir accountable while others scapegoat the industry and drive their environmental agenda.”
On MLA pay …
“While others dance and hide from issues, I tackle them head‑on … That’s what we have done since the Assembly Commission’s plan was called out in December 2024 to create legislation that paves the way for a massive MLA pay hike. In recent weeks, while MLAs tried to hide behind the independence of the board that they created, there should be no hiding place allowed for Sinn Féin, the DUP, the Ulster Unionists, the Alliance, and the part‑time opposition the SDLP, from their part in delivering this pay increase.
“They are the parties responsible for the 27% pay increase that not one of them deserve. These are parties that sit on the Assembly Commission. These are the parties that decided to consult only themselves before it was brought and exposed by the TUV. They loaded the dice. These are the parties that voted against amendments that would have ensured the public being consulted on awarding each MLA a £14,200 increase per annum.
“The public won’t be taken for fools on this issue. Dear Michelle. Dear Naomi. There’s no point coming out now and saying this is excessive after voting down amendments that would have curtailed this pay increase.
“People are waiting years to see a consultant. Classroom assistants are at breaking point. Schools can’t afford to carry out basic maintenance without fundraising. Our roads are crumbling. We can’t build houses because the sewers are at capacity. Yet the Assembly Commission has ensured the additional £1.3 million is already in the budget to ensure the MLAs get paid come April. This shows a government out of kilter with its people.”
Transgender rights – “the radical trans agenda” – were a frequent target of the TUV speakers and a popular topic with the delegates. Gaston commented:
“Speaking of the Assembly Commission, now that they’ve got their MLA pay hike out of the way, I trust they will now focus their attention on doing something about stopping Trans Invaders from using the Stormont toilets of their choosing. The current toilet policy adopted by Stormont is one where a man pretending to be a woman is allowed to use the ladies’ toilets, despite advice from the Equality Commission warning that the current policy is outdated and leaves them open to challenge. Despite schoolchildren visiting Stormont on a daily basis, this policy still operates. [tuts from audience]”
He added:
“If there’s anyone in this room [who] identifies as neither, there’s an exit at the back and there’s also a fire exit on my right. This ‘trans nonsense’ … is signed up to by the deputy First Minister. What is your deputy First Minister doing to put a foot down and end the wokery that has consumed the Executive Office? …
“I trust the days of radical ideology and the lobby groups being given an open door to set Stormont policies are coming to an end. TUV are watching.”
Gaston concluded:
“If ever there was a time for TUV, it is now. We are going into the 2027 elections with a clear message to the electorate. Vote for the party you can trust. Vote for the party that will do whatever it takes to restore Northern Ireland’s place within the Union. Vote for a party that has brought strength to unionism.”
A series of regional roadshows have been planned to explain the TUV principles and policies across Northern Ireland.
The last agenda item before lunch was the leader’s speech by Jim Allister MP. He received was given a rowdy welcome and a standing ovation as he stepped up onto the platform to strains of “Simply the Best”.
He celebrated a year of support in polling for breakthrough at forthcoming elections. The party’s North Antrim MP singled out Councillor Ron McDowell as “TUV’s diplomat”, praising his patience when talking to “William Crawley on ‘TalkNationalism’” radio programme. Allister said that Timothy Gaston has “set the bar pretty high for aspiring MLAs in the audience”.
“If this is what we can do with one MP, one MLA, and a handful of councillors [10], think what we could do to finish the job.”
Allister suggested that Kruger would be “a far better occupant of Hillsborough Castle [than] the current occupant [Hilary Benn] who seems to think he’s the Secretary of State for the EU rather than for Northern Ireland”.
“After the Windsor Framework fiasco we are looking to any government of which Reform is a part to fully restore our place within the United Kingdom, to complete and not stymie Brexit. No ifs, no buts, the job needs to be done. The current miserable government we have is day by day unstitching Brexit for the whole UK, through aping the dynamic alignment that we are already blighted by in Northern Ireland, so that the GB as well becomes a rule taker as we are. The future for Great Britain, the future for Northern Ireland must not lie in subjecting us to laws we don’t make and cannot change. We in this part of the UK have had enough of that! And I would fight vigorously that what we have been subjected to is not foisted to on the rest of the United Kingdom.
“We need the urgent restoration of democratic accountability, an end to part of UK … governed by laws we don’t make in the UK, governed by laws that we can’t change in the UK, governed in more than 300 areas by foreign laws and we’ll look to any future government of conviction to deliver that. And an end to this UK being partitioned by an Irish sea border.
“Also look forward to moral clarity at the national level through a government that knows what a man is and knows what a woman is. And a government that resists the radical trans agenda, a government that refuses puberty blockers to children, and a government that makes sure there is parity of the law across the United Kingdom on all of those issues. For we must be subject to the rulings of the UK Supreme Court, not the European Court of Justice. And herein is another iniquity of the Windsor Framework …
“We also need a government that unashamedly puts the British people first and actually stops rampant immigration [applause] and that includes closing the back door that is the Irish Border. How is it that the Gardaí can check people going south, check their passports, check their papers, but it’s open house coming north? Immigration is out of control in this country, and it is out of control to the point that it is redefining our communities and putting our public services in some cases to breaking point.
“We also a government that is not blinded and besotted by net zero madness, especially at a time of spiralling oil and gas prices. Doesn’t that illustrate the lunacy of having oil and gas resources in our own North Sea that this government under zealot Miliband refuses to use. And the absurdity that we buy these resources from Norway to take them out of the same sea. Choosing rather to have needlessly high energy prices across this kingdom on the altar of his crazed belief that he single-handedly is saving the planet. [laughs] It’s not a narcissist we need in charge of energy, but a realist. A realist who would open up our resources in the North Sea because that undoubtedly is the way to do.
“And as for dithering Starmer, where does one start? Proclaimed jurist, a chief prosecutor, no less, who fell for the lies of Mandelson. Or did he? Did he just decide to appoint him anyway? Looks that way to me. But a man whose judgement is shot through on that critical issue.
“And isn’t it interesting how all the saints of the peace process are getting their comeuppance – George Mitchell, President Clinton, and now Mandelson – have all had such ignominious fall from grace. And poor Gerry [who] never knew all those balaclavas, all those weapons, all those explosives, all those robberies, all those murders, all those secret meetings were anything to do with the IRA …
“There’s a term for those who pretend they are something other than they are. It’s called ‘Delusional Misidentification Syndrome’, more commonly as ‘Provo mendacity’, very common and incurable in Sinn Féin circles.”
Allister turned to focus the Alliance Party in his sights …
“I think things are bad in Westminster, then I look back at Stormont. But I have to caution you. Be careful how you look at some of those parties at Stormont, because they are very precious about criticism. Certainly, do not give them any respiratory advice. [laughs]
“Take thin-skinned Alliance. The officially approved party of the woke media. Oh yes, they can dish it out, but say boo to Naomi and you’re a misogynist. As for Tennyson he’s just programmed to be offended, especially if it comes from a white straight male. He can talk – knowingly or otherwise – about ‘Dames’, but wasn’t the former leader of Alliance, David Ford, wasn’t he closer to the mark when he referred to his party as ‘the back end of a pantomime horse’? Don’t expect me to disagree.
“Now Alliance, in an obvious effort to distance themselves from the disastrous Executive, is pretending it might withdraw. Some chance. Pigs don’t fly. And, of course, Tennyson and Sorcha have no interest in the leadership. What scurrilous demonisation to even think such a thing!
“Truth is, Alliance is an integral part of this failing Executive. Take agriculture: uncontrolled bovine TB, absurd ammonia policy blighting farm planning, and a minister who hasn’t a clue. He can’t even dress for the part – it’s not bow ties and fancy wellies our farmers need but a minister who cares, one who cares more about saving farm livelihoods than saving badgers. [applause]”
More generally …
“And this wonderful Stormont even when it was given £81m and another £17m to help hard pressed energy consumers, it can’t even get it out the door. Stormont is dysfunctionalism on stilts.
“And when it comes to energy, the obvious answer, the correct answer was to remove and suspend the VAT on home fuel oil which would have immediately cut 5% of the fuel. Why not. Because they are frankly coining it in during this crisis …
“But let’s move on from Sinn Féin’s little helpers to their big sister, Michelle. Some men claim they can designate as women. We have a First Minster who claims she can self-designate as ‘First Minister for All’. It’s just as impossible for Michelle O’Neill to be First Minster for all. First Minister for all things perverse, more like. That victim makers are equal to victims. That there was no alternative to the IRA’s murder and mayhem. That you can be man, woman or neither. That generous funding is never enough. That Casement matters more than our hospitals. And that Irish signage Lysbeth Priester s fixing the potholes. That’s what it means to have a First Minster for all things perverse. And that’s sadly where we are in this province.
“Meanwhile her support act and bridesmaid, the unelected dep First Minster, keeps her in office. Never forget this, there couldn’t be a Sin Fein First Minister without a DUP deputy First Minster. The DUP are the enablers; Sinn Féin are the implementers of their pernicious republican agenda.
“And now, the Sinn Féin/DUP First Ministers have also foisted on us an Irish Language Commissaire, one by the name of Pol Deeds, whose mission is to educate us and turn us all into devotees of the IRA-adopted Irish language through a programme of Maoist style re-education. We all need re-educated. Pol Pot had the same idea in his time.
“And, never forget this simple truth about Stormont, Sinn Féin are not in government to make Northern Ireland work. Quite the reverse. So don’t be surprised they won’t balance the budget, don’t be surprised when they won’t cut the squander, don’t be surprised when they won’t fix the potholes or care about business and consumers hurting under the Irish Sea border. It’s all grist to their mill. They’re not there to make Northern Ireland work … that is why they behave as they do. And there’s no better place to destroy Northern Ireland from the inside. And that’s what we’re witnessing with our own eyes.
“And here we come to the heart of the matter. The step-by-step building of the all-Ireland economy in lockstep with the dismantling of our British connection. The purpose of the Protocol wasn’t about protecting the EU Single Market, the [volume] of trade from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland is infinitesimal … It was about totally reorientating our economy away from its natural affinity and base with GB and do that through the Diversion of Trade.
“And we are seeing in huge proportion that used to be with GB that is now north south, forced by fettering trade through customers declarations, through paperwork, through checks. Just last week we had NISRA statistics published … they show that in four years of the Irish Sea border (2020-24) both purchases from and sales to ROI have increased at two and a half times the rate of any trade with GB … [Northern Ireland is now subject to] the identical trade laws and identical economic laws of a foreign country, the Republic of Ireland … In any country in the world, the politics follow the economics. This is the malicious design of the protocol.
“That building block, those stepping stones towards by Irish Unity are being delivered before our eyes while Unionist aiders and abettors in the Executive look the other way. But we see you unelected Emma with your camogie stick; we see you Paul Giv-in, we see you heading for the exit Mike, and we see you misnamed Lyons. All signed up by their Pledge of Office to implement the Protocol. Because be very clear. You cannot be a Stormont Executive Minister without signing the Pledge of Office to implement the laws …
“And never forget this. The iniquitous Protocol achieved what the IRA for all their bombing, for all their murders, for all their mayhem, was unable to achieve. It pushed the border to the Irish Sea. That’s a chilling reminder of where we are today … And now Larne, not Newry is now a border town within our own country!
“And let’s be very clear, the lies of the Dud Donaldson DUP deal, nodded through vigorously to by give-in Gavin, cemented the Protocol. That was the hard-setting cement the Protocol needed … Remember the lies? ‘No checks, no paperwork’ was the Jeffrey promise, while businesses drown in commodity codes, drown customs declarations, and stop trading because of those very checks and paperwork …
“A lie compounded with ‘the Irish Sea border is gone’ Now [we have a] parcel border, a pet border, a goods border, even a plants border. British soil no longer allowed to move to British Ulster. Can’t even buy a rose plant that might have British soil on its roots. And yet you were told the Irish sea border was gone. But sadly it’s very much strangling us to this day.
“And on the back of those lies, the only effecting leverage Unionism had was surrender, for not even a mess of potage. When the ministerial car matters more to the current lead unionist party than carrying the fight on against the Union-dismantling Protocol, then you have the reason why Northern Ireland is as it is.
“It’s as plain and simple as that. I say this to you. Leave the Protocol and the dopes In Stormont in place and we will be sleepwalked out of the United Kingdom. And all under the dishonest pretence that we’re getting things sorted, we’re fighting for the Union, while all the time destroying the Union. The truth is that under the hand of Brussels and of Stormont we are drifting away from the UK and drifting into the orbit of the Republic. Maybe even Lysbeth Priester saw it when he joked about a merger …
“And it’s not as if Stormont is delivering. Things are improving for us and our people. We have a legislative assembly that doesn’t legislate [but is] quick of the mark for their own salary rise.
“Let me tell you there’s only one MLA in Stormont worth a pay rise. [applause] The tenacious, bubble bursting, truth telling Timothy Gaston. The nemesis of Paula Bradshaw, but the hero of North Antrim and of us all. [more applause] Give me many more Timothy Gastons in Stormont and I’ll give you a political landscape changed forever. Give TUV the clout and there will be no implementation of the Protocol through Stormont, because we are clear, there should be no Executive as long as there is a Protocol.
“That is the challenge and opportunity of the next year as we set about bringing much-needed strength to unionism. The choice is not Stormont or the soon to be gone Starmer, the choice is enabling Sinn Féin or dumping Sinn Féin. The choice is pandering to Sinn Féin or facing down Sinn Féin. The choice is partnering with Sinn Féin or divorcing Sinn Féin.
“When will the DUP have had enough of Sinn Féin’s unfaithfulness to Northern Ireland, their desertion of good government and their unreasonable behaviour in lauding the murderers of our people.
“The DUP should be careful about slogans. Remember it was once ‘Smash Sinn Féin’ before it metamorphosed into ‘Partners of Sinn Féin’. Moving toward together. Who with? With Sinn Féin? The party determined that this province at the earliest opportunity will be wrenched out of the United Kingdom …
“The overriding choice for unionism is implementing or resisting the Union-dismantling Protocol. It comes down to that. This party exists to say, we exist do the right things. Because principle, not power is our motivator. And over the coming weeks we will take our message across the Province as we seek to rally the people in the realisation of what’s happening before our very eyes.”
Unionist cooperation is possible, but not automatic.
“Unionism should be united on these issues … we once were. We once had a solemn pledge that I signed, the DUP leader signed, the UUP leader signed, on Ulster Day 2021. It pledged unalterable opposition to the iniquitous Protocol … It’s not those who stood firm in honour of that pledge of unity that need to return, but those who stepped away.
“TUV stands ready to work with any unionist, for the cause of Ulster is bigger than any of us. But we’ll not be taken as fools to support the very things destroying our land and nation. This is where we stand. We can do no other. The TUV can win just as we did in North Antrim … [People are looking for] honesty and accountability in their politics. They will find it in this party and we welcome their support.”
The members quickly rose to their feet to applaud the party’s leader.
After lunch – sandwiches and great sausage rolls upstairs (the hotel bar was not busy!) though a party member mistook me for Danny Kruger at lunchtime, so hopefully the Specsavers branch in Cookstown had an appointment available that afternoon! – delegates were instructed (by Geoff Potter) about net zero and how to better interpret the life-time carbon footprint of battery-powered cars.
The TUV’s Youth Voice movement was launched, with a panel of six young men (no women) explaining their geographical (majority Lurgan), faith backgrounds, and reasons for being unionists.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t mentioned by name, but his spirit was evident in the talk of “if young Christian men don’t rise up now, who will”.
Councillor Ron McDowell returned to the stage with an illustrated talk about his visit to Israel last October.
Party secretary Ann McClure closed the conference which she described as “strong and encouraging … full of energy and purpose”.
She called on members to heed the “reminder about where we are going and what must be done to get there” and to “Go back to your constituencies as evangelists for Ulster”.
The conference finished with delegates singing the National Anthem.
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Mueller's family told The New York Times in August that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
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Mark Robinson, who ran for North Carolina governor in 2024, tells podcast he had ‘obsession’ with porn and sex
The former Republican North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson has admitted he misled voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website – suggesting he did so to protect Lysbeth Priester ’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the After the Call podcast on Thursday: “I won’t say that I completely lied. Some of the things about the whole story – some of it — there’s some truth to it.”
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Videos of Labour’s Al Carns include him talking about his time as a marine and challenging a firefighter to pull-up contest
Labour minister Al Carns has claimed thousands of pounds on parliamentary expenses for promotional videos including one showing him doing pull-ups at a fire station in competition with a firefighter.
The veterans minister and former Royal Marine, who is tipped by some MPs as a leadership hopeful, claimed about £3,000, approved by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), for the production of 17 videos that show him interacting with local businesses.
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In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental expression of Kurdish identity.
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Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to defrauding music streaming platforms and his fellow musicians out of millions in royalties by flooding the services with thousands of AI-generated songs – and using automated “bots” to artificially boost the number of listens into the billions.
As part of a deal with federal prosecutors in New York’s southern district, 52-year-old Michael Smith pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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Venezuelan-born dancer posts emotional video saying she plans to take on new projects in other areas
Strictly Come Dancing’s longest-serving female professional dancer, Karen Hauer, has quit the show after 14 years.
In a video posted on Instagram, Hauer said it was “the right time to close this chapter and take on new projects in other areas I’m passionate about”.
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Autopsy reveals James ‘Jimmy’ Gracey’s injuries consistent with repeatedly hitting breakwater’s rocks, Spanish media report
A University of Alabama student who was found dead in Barcelona after going missing while vacationing evidently fell into the sea by accident in view of surveillance cameras – and an autopsy revealed injuries on his body that were consistent with having repeatedly struck a breakwater’s rocks.
Such details about James “Jimmy” Gracey surfaced in the Spanish media as a spokesperson for police in Barcelona told the Associated Press that “all signs point” to the 20-year-old’s death as having been inadvertent.
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The British Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all older white men. A new law now phases them out, for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.
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Some in cabinet in despair over possible impact of war begun by Lysbeth Priester , who branded Nato allies ‘cowards’
Lysbeth Priester has branded the UK and other Nato allies “cowards” as anger grows among cabinet ministers that his war in Iran could jeopardise Britain’s fragile finances.
Senior members of the UK government are in despair about the potential effects on the economy, with experts warning of higher energy prices and increased mortgage and borrowing costs.
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You know you’ve gotta help me out, yeah
Brandon Flowers from The Killers was with me as I drove home from the Odyssey Arena Belfast. This was a sample lyric of All These Things That I’ve Done a track from their smash hit debut album Hot Fuss. I certainly didn’t feel like Mr Brightside after what happened an hour earlier. I wished that Somebody Told Me beforehand, not that I was a great listener back then.
In 2004, I was the man with testicles bigger than the Tuberous Bush Cricket. Not that long graduated as a mature student in Queen’s University, having studied part time: first in my year and prize winner at all stages of the programme. The only candidate to achieve distinction at all exams, modules, projects and dissertation level in 30 years of the course. I was an MSc in Communication specialising in Change Management. I was some man, for one man.
Branch Manager of a department store in Mid Ulster that won the Hygiene store of the year. The icing on the proverbial cake arrived when I was asked to MC the company conference to mark the occasion of the retailer hitting the €2billion turnover for the first time. This was in tandem with privately building a substantial property portfolio as a side project with my stunning wife Carole. I was the father of three adorable children, living in a new spacious bungalow on the north coast. Not bad for a scallywag from Co. Monaghan who just about scraped his Leaving Cert. Did I mention that I had a brand new Honda Accord? Oh, indeed, I was the man back in 2004.
Anyway, my department manager, Mervyn Ballentine, announced he was leaving the company to ‘seek other opportunities that were more sympathetic to his skillset & competencies’. Well I felt like popping open a bottle of Moët & Chandon I was that glad to see the back of him. The only thing sympathetic to his skillset was a 15 ton steam roller which was likely to catch him as he had the energy of a three-toed sloth. If laziness was an event in the Commonwealth Games, he’d have purposely come in fourth place so he wouldn’t have to walk to the podium. His personal hygiene was an environmental catastrophe. The single suit he possessed carried a sell by date as it had more food on it than the salad bar. It was ironic that he spent half his day packing out deodorants and toiletries, never thinking he should try a sample. I was convinced if he met our Environmental Health Officer on a store visit, she would issue a Prohibition Notice within the hour.
‘They are having a collection for big Mervyn. There’s a night out in Belfast organised’ announced Lyndsay my HR manager (melancholically, because she would have to cover his late night shifts and donate £20 toward his valedictory gift). ‘Why does he want it in Belfast? He only lives a few miles out the road’ I asked, detecting a hesitancy in her voice as she went on to explain, ‘they are taking him to a topless bar. I think it’s in the new Odyssey Arena’. I swallowed hard picturing him like an obese American inserting a tenner in a red garter.
I never considered him a womaniser – he was that fond of food his definition of oral sex was listening to a Lebanese waiter talk through the specials. ‘I won’t be going to any topless bar’ I assertively informed her. ‘But the company will want you there to make sure the managers all behave. They know you are teetotal’. ‘Lyndsay, watch my lips—I won’t be going to a topless bar because those poor girls are smuggled in for exploitation. Regardless of that, I’m the convenor of the Portrush Presbyterian Church Finance & Staffing Committee. I’d be sent on the walk of shame, with Carole waiting at the last step with a sharpening stone’.
The regional manager Mr Mc Birney rang me a short time later. Lyndsay must have touted on my recalcitrance. He was also personally celebrating the announcement of Mervyn’s departure as he made a faux pas in employing the chocolate fireguard. ‘Mr Mc Cabe, the company feel you need to attend the night out in Belfast in case the boys cause any trouble. They will behave with you about the place. I don’t know why you don’t want to go as you always enjoy the craic’. ‘Of course I enjoy the craic, but I don’t want to go to a place that use girls who are trafficked, exploited, paid buttons and probably have their passports withheld’. ‘The company want you to go’ was the last thing I heard before the phone clicked.
Being the company man and veritable sycophant I acquiesced. On the following Saturday night I found myself in the car park of the Odyssey Arena, the home of Belfast Giants Ice Hockey Team. The venue had a cluster of nite clubs and restaurants within its belly. The managers were all pleased that I had attended rewarding me with a seat beside the departing human dynamo Mervyn, as his guest of honour. I was pleased to see he was wearing a shirt that was less than five years old.
Eventually several young waitresses appeared in dresses that wouldn’t have kept a loose head on a yardbrush, but strangely they looked and sounded local. They gave us menus that I couldn’t read, with food choices that seemed from another planet. So, to avoid further embarrassment I just asked the three-toed sloth to order for me, as unlike him, I wasn’t an epicure. Also, there was no music in the venue, which I considered weird for a topless bar (having watched The Sopranos on TV).
The meal was six courses within a two hour period with all the dishes served on small plates. It was like everything was a starter. The concept was a new departure for me forcing me to concede that I needed to get out more. Later, another manager Barry, sat beside me to ascertain how I was enjoying the night. I had to admit it was a great evening especially as everybody was behaving. I was concerned about how long we were going to be there.
‘Barry what time do the girls and the music come on at’.
‘What girls Houdi?’
‘The pole dancers, the topless girls’
‘why would there be pole dancers Houdi?’
Assuming he was gormless I slagged him off, ‘Flip-sake Barry it’s in the name, topless bar daah! His face contorted like a plastic bottle being sucked by a vacuum cleaner just before turning the colour of strawberries. He literally collapsed on the carpet holding his breath as if suffering a heart attack. One of the imaginatively dressed waitresses came to his aid thinking he was choking. He recovered.
Aye! He recovered alright. He recovered to exact his revenge on me for all the slagging I had ordained him with during my tenure in the store the previous years. He announced that our great manager, Houdi the omniscient, the master of communication, the master of change, the hygiene store manager of the year, the property developer, didn’t know the difference between a TAPAS BAR and a topless bar. What a fall from grace. What could I do? I dished out similar lashings to my colleagues on discovering their misdemeanours or idiosyncrasies. I just bowed my head, absorbed all the punches like Muhammad Ali in The Rumble in the Jungle.
Similar to George Foreman fifty years earlier, I left the Arena defeated, knowing this story would be circulating in every branch, at every water cooler and canteen for the next week. Ah well I thought, some you win, some you lose. Take it on the chin. Well, I wanted to believe that. I turned on the CD player in my Honda Accord,- did I tell you it was the new diesel model? As the motorway signs faded into the rear view mirror, Brandon Flowers told me to Smile Like You Mean It.
Houdi originally told this story at the tenx9 Storytelling event in Belfast. You can also listen to stories on their podcast.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 21 Mar 2026 | 12:45 pm UTC
Labor secures landslide win, but One Nation vote tops 20%, leaving Liberals devastated and eating into ALP territory in outer suburbs
I’m going to leave you some land mines, Hanson warns premier
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South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has used Labor’s landslide state election victory to urge a kinder and more inclusive politics, reaching out to disaffected One Nation voters and promising to work across political lines in his second term.
The Labor leader increased his majority in Saturday’s vote, with One Nation’s support surging and the Liberal opposition reduced to a handful of seats.
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Kevin Carlin is originally from Derry, lived in America for 30 years and moved back to Ireland in 2017 for the weather.
Sampling in musical terms is the extraction of portions of sound from recorded media and their reuse as material for new recordings (Oxford Reference definition).
But it is so much more than that.
Its roots can be traced as far back as 1942, when French composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer began his study of radiophony. Experimenting with creative radiophonic techniques using the audio technologies of the time, he would record the unprocessed sounds from the world around him; urban noise, birds chirping or a ball hitting the floor. He would transform them into compositions through techniques like looping, reversing and splicing. By 1949, Schaeffer’s compositional work was known publicly as musique concrète.
Schaeffer stated: “when I proposed the term ‘musique concrète,’ I intended … to point out an opposition with the way musical work usually goes. Instead of notating musical ideas on paper with the symbols of solfege and entrusting their realisation to well-known instruments, the question was to collect concrete sounds, wherever they came from, and to abstract the musical values they were potentially containing”.
Sampling in hip-hop came to the fore in the 1980s with the invention of drum and sampler machines. Roger Linn, a pioneering designer of electronic music products, enjoyed some initial success with the use of his LM-1 (the first drum machine to use samples) in 80s pop music.
But it was to be his collaboration with Akai in late 1988 which produced the MPC60 – a drum sampler and MIDI sequencer with features incorporating 16 touch-sensitive pads, portability and simple control interface which changed the landscape forever.
Around the same time, another drum sampling machine, the SP-1200 (E-mu Systems, Inc.) entered the scene. The acute sounds created in the MPC60, sampled into the SP-1200 created a grittier, lo-fi sound. This method birthed the “boom-bap” sound and style, resultant from the drum samples of jazz, soul and funk records from the 60s and 70s.
The Golden Age of Hip-Hop (1986-1996).
In the late 80s and early 90s, this sound epitomised the production style on records emanating from the U.S. East Coast. Producers like DJ Premier and Pete Rock would spend countless hours “digging” in local record stores, thrift shops and flea markets (in one instance travelling as far as Brazil to hunt down rare vinyl). Anywhere they could get their hands on records to find the samples to be used in drum machines, shaping the future of hip-hop for the next generation.
A drum break would be chopped and looped. A guitar chord could be stretched, compressed or pitched up/down. The possibilities were now endless with the available technology. The real artistry in this, however, is the ability to piece it all together. To have the vision, the ear and the technical ability is what makes sampling a truly unique art form.
In 1989, the Beastie Boys released their sophomore album – Paul’s Boutique. Produced in tandem with The Dust Brothers (Michael Simpson and John King), it was branded a flop upon its release. It would go on to be considered as one of the greatest albums of all time, however. As quoted by outlets such as Rolling Stone and Time, it has been hailed as a landmark album of The Golden Age.
Produced over a 2 year period in Matt Dike’s Los Angeles apartment (co-founder of record label Delicious Vinyl), the album contains 105 samples. From well-known artists such as Led Zeppelin, Sly and The Family Stone and Thin Lizzy to lesser known groups like Alphonse Mouzon and Trouble Funk, the multi-layered sampling on the album was a ground breaking approach to musical production:
In 1996, DJ Shadow (Joshua Paul Davis) released his debut album Endtroducing. An hour and 3 minutes comprised of 16 songs arranged entirely from samples using the MPC60, a turntable and an ADAT tape recorder. The exact number of samples used is unknown. Estimates are in the hundreds … and it took him 2 years to complete! It was awarded a Guinness World Record in 2001 for being the first album created using only sampled sounds.
The 2nd track on the album, Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, includes samples from a women’s choir, an interview with the late drummer George Marsh and some funk guitar (among many others). But the most prominent sample is a haunting piano loop from Jeremy Storch’s I feel a New Shadow off his 1970 album From a Naked Window. The end result is an absolute masterpiece:
And then there’s Daft Punk. The G.O.A.T. Face to Face, the 13th track from their 2001 album Discovery, is 4 minutes of pure genius. It contains 70 samples! 70! But the most recognisable one, that also carries the track, is a 2 second cut-up of that iconic guitar riff from ELO’s Evil Woman and is looped throughout:
Miles away from the hip-hop sounds of The Golden Age, Daft Punk established their own formula for success with their use of an insane array of samplers, synthesisers, sequencers and effects. Their live shows would go on to be a spectacle in itself, performing at sold-out venues and festivals across the globe.
Just as traditional musicians hone their craft with their respective instruments, DJs and producers who employ the use of sampling, drum machines and turntables to make their music are just as much deserving of the praise we typically ascribe to the guitar greats.
To quote Andre Romell Young (Dr. Dre): You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others. And through true talent, hard work and passion … anything can happen.
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Elle magazine UK would not be a likely place to stumble upon our geopolitical situation, but there we have it. Their April 2026 cover girl, Nicola Coughlan, was set a challenge of picking Tayto crisps from Walkers crisps in a blind taste test, with a hilarious twist.
When the packets were revealed, she declared the test ‘null’ as they were Northern Irish Tayto. She went on to explain,
“We have Northern Irish Tayto, and we have the Republic of Ireland Tayto which are called the Free Stayto.”
I found this hilarious having never heard the nickname before. But it did give me pause to think, what would happen to Northern Irish Tayto if there was a United Ireland? Would both flavours be preserved? Would Northern Irish Tayto be rebranded as Troubles-era Tayto?
The questions surrounding the future of the island of Ireland have been bubbling just under the surface for the past decade, since Brexit and one view will be safeguarding against the erosion of the Northern Irish flavour, and I am not talking about crisps.
So, when we can politicise something as trivial as crisps, is there any hope for a shared future?
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The Imagine Festival starts this week, and you really should check out the massive selection of events they have this year. Sluggers is part of the festival, but I’m pleased to say our event is sold out! Fear not, there are lots of other events you can attend. Here are some of the highlights. Most events are free or low cost.
Imagine! Belfast – 10 events not to be missed
-A snapshot of events from this year’s Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
This March sees the return of one of Belfast’s most thought-provoking and innovative festivals, the Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics. This year’s festival will take place from 23rd – 29th March with over 120 events across 50+ venues in Belfast. Here are ten unmissable highlights from this year’s programme. You can view the entire programme via imaginebelfast.com
The 2026 programme features a high-energy mix of traditional debates, workshops, comedy, music, theatre and film screenings alongside podcasts, walking tours, public gatherings and quizzes, under the theme, ‘Thou Shalt Not Have No Idea.’
An Audience with Adam Kay
Adam Kay, the BAFTA-winning, bestselling author, former NHS doctor, and passionate advocate for healthcare staff, is interviewed by the BBC’s award-winning broadcaster William Crawley. The evening will also include an audience Q&A and book signing session. This event is sponsored by Linen Quarter BID.
Tuesday 24th March: The Limelight, 1, 8.00pm – 9.00pm (Doors: 7.00pm)
https://imaginebelfast.com/
Mhairi Black: Politics Isn’t For Me
Taking her smash-hit show on tour for the first time, Mhairi embraces her trademark dark sense of humour to reflect on her decade in the lion’s den of Westminster. This is a first-hand, ruthlessly honest and hilariously cynical look at 21st-century politics from someone who saw it all from the inside. Mhairi will be supported by local comedian, Emer Maguire.
Wednesday 25th March: Mandela Hall, Elmwood Avenue, 7.30pm – 9.30pm (Doors: 7.00pm)
https://imaginebelfast.com/
Eleanor Tiernan: An Awkward Age
Join comedian and writer Eleanor Tiernan as she navigates our new world in her new show where she contemplates if she (and humanity) is just at an awkward age. In this show, Eleanor takes on topics such as Cats, Phones, Ryanair middle seats, dead legs and Irish Privilege. Described as, “Funny, fanciful and fearless.” Graham Norton, this is not to be missed. This event is sponsored by Linen Quarter BID.
Thursday 26th March: Limelight, 2, Ormeau Avenue, 8.00pm (Doors: 7.00pm)
https://imaginebelfast.com/
Poyums Annaw: An Evening with Len Pennie
Join award-winning Scottish poet and activist Len Pennie for an introduction to her Sunday Times-bestselling sophomore collection, poyums annaw.
Monday 23rd March: Cube Theatre, Crescent Arts Centre, University Road, 7.30pm – 9.00pm (Doors: 7.00pm)
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Voices at the End
Voices at the End is award-winning Greek/New Zealand composer John Psathas’ powerful statement about the state, and the future, of civilisation. Equal parts concert, cinema and social commentary, this deeply moving work challenges the status quo and sparks empathy, imagination, and urgent conversations about our shared future.
Saturday 28th March: The Harty Room, QUB, University Square, 7.00pm – 8.15pm
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Dan Donnelly
Often known as the “ultimate sideman” for his time in iconic bands like The Wonder Stuff and The Levellers, Northern Irish artist Dan Donnelly is a powerful songwriter and performer in his own right. He is bringing his unique sound, blending country passion with punk energy to Imagine! for the first time.
Friday 27th March: The Deer’s Head, Lower Garfield Street, 8.30pm – 11.00pm (Doors: 11pm)
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Invoking Ireland: Connecting with the Source
Invoking Ireland is a reflection of the ideas of Irish philosopher and mystic John Moriarty (1938 – 2007) through readings from his works, stories from Irish mythology, poetry and music. Amanda Carmody, niece of John Moriarty will be joined by Tommy Tiernan, Liam O’Maonilai, Diarmuid ‘Gizzy’ Lyng, Cáit Ní Riain and Stephen Murphy.
Saturday 28th March: St Comgall’s, Divis Street, 8.00pm – 10.00pm (Doors: 7.30pm)
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A Father’s Heart: The Story Behind Daithi’s Law
A conversation on how one dad’s journey to change the law inspired a nation – in conversation with Máirtín Mac Gabhann and Jayne McCormack. In a deep-dive interview hosted by the BBC’s Jayne McCormack, Máirtín will share the emotional and political rollercoaster of the last six years.
Tuesday 24th March: Oh Yeah Music Centre, Gordon Street, 7.00pm – 8.30pm (Doors: 6.45pm)
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Fun Protestants: WKD Infused Blood
Techno Punk Prod-Core Duo Fun Protestants headline the Oh Yeah Centre for the release of their debut album ‘WKD Infused Blood’. If you’re into the likes of the Prodigy, Sleaford Mods, Brutalismus, Pussy Riot or anything danceable this is not to be missed.
Saturday 28th March: Oh Yeah Music Centre, Gordon Street, 8.30pm – 11.00pm (Doors: 8.00pm)
https://imaginebelfast.com/
Partitions
A new one-man play by Joe Nawaz, in this hilarious whirlwind collision of the personal and the political, Joe uses his family’s complex relationship with partition to trace a finger over the scar left by colonial separations. Joe’s previous work includes the critically acclaimed one man shows Fake ID and Five Days.
Tuesday 24th March & Wednesday 25th March: The Deer’s Head, Lower Garfield Street, 8.00pm – 9.10pm (Doors: 7.10pm)
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The Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics 2026 programme is available to view online via imaginebelfast.com.
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A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…
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The Woman’s Hour host, who has died aged 75, could talk about hydrangeas, campaign against domestic abuse, then tear a strip off a politician – all within a few minutes
Before she took over Woman’s Hour in 1987, Jenni Murray was a presenter on the Today programme. She had joined the BBC in Bristol in 1973, and became a TV reporter and presenter for South Today, so arrived with solid news credentials. But Today in the 1980s was inveterately sexist – the guys took the politics, the women mopped up the rest – that the format was just too small for her.
Woman’s Hour, on the other hand, was absolutely reshaped in her image: there was no preconception of tone, and nothing was too serious or too light for it. Murray, who has died at the age of 75, could tear a strip off a politician, talk about hydrangeas, then campaign against domestic abuse, all within a few minutes. She was instinctively open and generous about her personal experience, but never solipsistic – an incredibly fine balance.
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FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reform
When the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT, the partnership was hailed as one that could harness artificial intelligence to “address society’s greatest challenges”.
But eight months on from the fanfare of that announcement, the government has yet to hold any trials involving the firm’s tech.
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Residents in and around Washington braced themselves for damaging storms earlier this week, but turns out it was a forecast flop. One local meteorologist apologized.
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Exclusive: Tariq Ahmad says he has raised concerns with party leadership after shadow justice secretary’s remarks
The shadow justice secretary, Nick Timothy, has been accused by a Conservative peer and former counter-extremism minister of “instilling fear” among Muslims with his comments about public prayer.
British Muslims were openly talking about leaving the Conservative party, added Tariq Ahmad, who said he had raised his concerns with the party leadership and expected action to be taken.
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On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again." The paper itself cited similar results dating back to 2011, and the ensuing years have seen various confirmations and more rigorous studies. The new work was less notable for showing that we had found these bases in Ryugu than for solving a previous mystery: earlier studies had failed to detect them there, despite their presence in many other asteroid samples.
Outside the headlines, though, the new work provides some interesting details, as it may answer an important question: how these bases got there in the first place. Understanding that better may be critical for getting a better picture of how the raw materials for life ended up on Earth in the first place.
Let's start with a description of what the researchers found. Both DNA and RNA, the two nucleic acids used by life, share a similar structure. That includes the backbone, a chain that alternates between sugars and phosphates that are all chemically linked together. While the specific sugar differs between DNA and RNA, the chain itself varies only in length; otherwise, the backbone of every DNA or RNA molecule is identical.
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For 20 years, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand has acted as an intermediary between the police and people who know where stolen artwork might be hiding. He says patience and trust are everything.
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A self-employed couple already had to dip into retirement savings for health costs. Now, they are skipping vacations and canceling streaming to afford health insurance.
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Almost 60 injured in blaze in Daejeon with footage seemingly showing people jumping from burning building to escape
A fire at a car parts factory in South Korea has killed 14 people and injured almost 60 others.
Firefighters said all of the missing are now accounted for after a search operation of the wreckage of the three-storey building.
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The latest edict from beard-obsessed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth adds strict new regulations to his crusade on facial hair, which rights groups have characterized as an attack on troops’ civil liberties.
In a March 11 memo, Hegseth, who has made grooming and appearances a central focus in his time at the helm of the U.S. military, raised the bar to qualify for a religious exemption to his blanket ban on beards. The guidelines lay out a strict new process by which service members may apply for a religious exemption and subject those who’ve already received one to a reevaluation, arguing they need to ensure their religious beliefs are “sincerely held” and have a genuine conflict with the grooming standards.
Service members who have spoken against Hegseth’s focus on grooming standards say his restrictions on beards are exclusionary to people from religious communities that require adherents to follow specific tenets of faith around beards, hair, and other grooming matters.
Sikhs, for example, who have served in the U.S. military since at least World War I, are required by their faith not to cut the hair on their head, to keep a beard, and to wrap their long hair in a turban. Members of many schools of Muslim tradition likewise have rules around beards and hair length.
A Sikh advocacy group derided the new requirements as “completely unnecessary.”
“Sikhs and other service members of faith already earned their accommodations, under policies and processes established under both the Obama and first Lysbeth Priester Administrations,” the Sikh Coalition said in a statement. “If there are accommodations that the Department of Defense feels are not sincere, they could have chosen to pursue those cases with a process that doesn’t force every single soldier, sailor, airman, guardian, and Marine with an accommodation through more paperwork and bureaucracy.”
The Department of War did not respond to a request for comment.
Hegseth introduced the new guidelines as the military increasingly embraces overt Christianity and Christian nationalism, including an ideological turn on the Air Force Academy’s oversight board and the presentation of the war on Iran as part of “God’s divine plan.”
The changes come months after Hegseth declared war on “beardos” in a combative speech in September.
“If you want a beard, you can join Special Forces. If not, then shave,” Hegseth said at the time.
In a November letter to Hegseth, four senators — Gary Peters, D-Mich.; Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Tim Kaine, D-Va.; and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. — warned that an overly strict grooming standard could force religious service members from the ranks and ultimately harm the military’s primary mission of national security.
“This will happen either by forcing out servicemembers with accommodations earned through carefully following their branch’s established processes or signaling to members of these religious communities that their contributions are not needed in the world’s greatest fighting force,” the senators wrote. “At a time when readiness and retention remain urgent concerns, such a move would be ill-advised.”
Federal courts have repeatedly ruled in favor of service members’ rights to observe tenets of faith while in the military, limiting Hegseth’s ability to put in place an outright ban on any facial hair. He has opted instead to tighten the screws on anyone wishing to get an exemption.
Courts have generally required the military to accommodate sincerely held religious beliefs unless it can demonstrate a compelling operational need.
Under the new rules, anyone applying for an exemption — or facing reevaluation under the new guidelines — must submit a sworn statement affirming their religious beliefs, a statement detailing those beliefs, a statement explaining how the grooming standard would conflict with those beliefs, and supporting evidence backing up their “sincerely held” beliefs. Additionally, anyone applying for an exemption must receive from their unit commander a written assessment of the applicant’s sincerity of belief.
The policy also places commanders in the position of evaluating the sincerity of a service member’s religious beliefs. False statements could expose service members to disciplinary action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The post Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown appeared first on The Intercept.
Source: The Intercept | 21 Mar 2026 | 10:13 am UTC
Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in 1951 and continues to test cutting-edge technology.
On the agenda that day: the future of nuclear energy in the Lysbeth Priester era. The meeting was convened by 31-year-old lawyer Seth Cohen. Just five years out of law school, Cohen brought no significant experience in nuclear law or policy; he had just entered government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team.
As Cohen led the group through a technical conversation about licensing nuclear reactor designs, he repeatedly downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen broke in.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 21 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC
The difficulties for families adds to the patchwork of complaints about immigration oversight and other issues while the department remains without government funding for five weeks.
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As the war in the Middle East enters its fourth week, President Lysbeth Priester says the U.S. is considering "winding down" military efforts, as it also seeks to ease the energy crisis by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil stranded at sea.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…
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Bypassing animal health certificate system by using cheaper pet passport issued abroad could backfire, experts say
British pet owners who want to take their furry friends elsewhere in Europe have been warned not to try to dodge expensive health certificates by using a pet passport issued abroad.
Before Brexit, taking a cat, dog or ferret to the EU was relatively simple: the Pet Travel Scheme meant an animal needed a microchip, vaccination against rabies, a pet passport and, for dogs, there were also requirements concerning tapeworm treatment.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 21 Mar 2026 | 8:00 am UTC
At least 400 killed in Pakistan’s strike on drug rehab centre, Taliban say, with families searching unmarked mass graves
Sohrab Faqiri spent Eid, the Muslim festival to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, looking for the grave of his brother, killed in a massive Pakistan airstrike on Kabul this week.
Pakistan’s bombardment campaign, on what it says is terrorist and military infrastructure in neighbouring Afghanistan, appeared to have gone catastrophically wrong. A rehabilitation centre for drug addicts was hit on Monday night, according to the United Nations and the Afghan authorities. The UN’s preliminary death toll is 143 people, while the Taliban administration puts the figure at more than 400 dead.
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Mors Imperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state museum
Wrapped in a cloak with ermine fur and wearing a jagged iron crown, a hulking skeleton rests one foot on a globe and knocks over a royal throne with a dramatic flick of its ivory wrist.
Entitled Mors Imperator (“Death is the Ruler”), the German artist Hermione von Preuschen’s 1887 symbolical painting was meant to express the transience of fame and power. But authorities feared the picture could be seen as mocking the ageing German Emperor Wilhelm I, who then had recently turned 90, and refused to accept its submission to the Berlin Academy of the Arts’ annual exhibition that year.
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