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msn.com | Newton Emerson
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irishnews.com | Newton Emerson
London is prepared to sign a food, plant and animal agreement with Brussels that features dynamic alignment with EU rules and oversight by the European Court of Justice, according to US financial news service Bloomberg. If true, such a deal would immediately sweep away much of the sea border between Britain and Northern Ireland, including its most visible and contentious aspects.
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irishtimes.com | Newton Emerson
That great satirist Jonathan Swift would have enjoyed the latest problem developing at Stormont: a controversy over how to agree something is controversial. The question has arisen over bilingual English and Irish signs at Belfast’s new Grand Central Station. Some might consider such pettiness a further absurdity, although others are taking it seriously indeed. The decision to erect the signs was made by Sinn Féin infrastructure minister Liz Kimmins.
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irishnews.com | Newton Emerson
A court has forced Westminster City Council to suspend busking in Leicester Square. The case was brought by Global Radio, the company behind Classic FM, which said the noise from amplifiers was so loud its staff in offices on the square had resorted to working in cupboards. Other businesses testified to similar problems.
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irishnews.com | Newton Emerson
The DUP has joined calls for SDLP MLA Cara Hunter to apologise after she referred to the “coloniser mindset” of unionists who object to Irish language on signs. Hunter has stood up to the outrage her comment provoked and it is hard not to admire anyone who defies this sort of tiresome recreational anger. Nevertheless, it is generally preferable to compare Northern Ireland to Belgium than to the Congo, for the sake of both peace and understanding.
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The requirements for a US trade deal and an EU reset are incompatible, certainly where Northern Ireland is concerned.
Opinion: UK has to pick a side between the US and the EU - and Northern Ireland is stuck in the middle https://t.co/Cpj0GZmcAf via @IrishTimesOpEd
Whatever Stormont's faults on water funding, it would be helpful to remember it's a mess of the NIO's making. https://t.co/ZeBOxpNGx6
