Age of 16
Breaking our own fiscal rules; expecting others to subsidise our defence; lecturing the rest of the EU on foreign policy. It’s a bad combination.
“Where the offence is at the lower level of seriousness, there is no suggestion of sharing or distributing images, the accused is co-operative and it is a first offence, the option of a suspended sentence should at least be considered”.
Bill before Commons
If the courts start making decisions – as they were urged to do in this instance – based on how the climate in the country might be affected by those decisions, then they are no longer impartial judicial actors, but political actors.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the portfolios of her new Commission this morning in Strasbourg.
Sinn Féin is holding its annual think-in at the Clayton Hotel in Dublin before the Dáil resumes on Wednesday.
Remanded in custody
Harvey Sherratt
We got a Government and a society that is both institutionally incompetent on the big problems, and institutionally tyrannical on the small stuff.
Behavioural disorders
The stunning thing here, really, is that the polling consistently now has Sinn Fein on course to lose seats, rather than gain them, at the next election.