Alan Burnside

@nmdcouncil Priceless!!!

@AhmadIsmail1979 @ShaykhSulaiman Maybe he thought if he shot him it would put him out of his horrific pain?

VIDEO OF LATE AARON BUSHNELL WHO PASSED AWAY Aaron Bushnell, 25, has passed away. Graphic footage shows the U.S Army soldier set himself on fire as a show of Solidarity with the Palestinian cause in front of the Israeli Embassy. He shouted: "I will no longer be complicit in genocide." His last words were "Free Palestine." May he RIP 🙏🏽

@JamieBrysonCPNI @columeastwood Bet he says it was a private conversation and none of your business.

Correspondence sent to the PSNI Chief Constable this afternoon querying whether he did indeed apologise to nationalist law-breaker @columeastwood If he did, such blatant political two tier policing raises huge issues for unionist/loyalist confidence in & support for the PSNI.

@SeanUlidia A godawful interview Tara.

Leo Varadkar: 'We've given the guts of a €BILLION towards projects in the 6 counties with no ulterior motive' Tara Mills: 'Are you not worried what unionists might think?' this place is a fckng disaster.

@EmmaCDeSouza No mention of unionists involvement?

The conversation on a United Ireland is now a part of our daily discourse, but the conversation needs to be more inclusive, we need more women, ethnic minority, disabled, traveller, young, LGBTQ+, & rural voices, no more all white, middle aged, manels please!

@William13643334 @chrisadonnelly You didn’t reference the cost of living or the high level of personal taxation in Ireland. They are much higher than in NI.

@chrisadonnelly Until there’s a White Paper in Dublin, the current Union position has an advantage. When the benefits of Irish Unity are spelled out: improved health, better wages &benefits, stable political, institutions, Full EU Membership rights &protections, I’d expect a big swing to Unity.

A majority support Irish unity; 39% would vote for it right now, today, with no plans in place; clear majority under 45s support it immediately. Main take away is that border poll within decade, fully planned for & with civic engagement, would likely win; even more in 10-15 yrs.

@jurgen_nauditt Will Ireland do the same?

👍Denmark has decided to transfer all its artillery to Ukraine, - Prime Minister of the country Mette Frederiksen "Ukraine is asking us for ammunition and artillery now. We, Denmark, have decided to transfer all our artillery to Ukraine. So, sorry, friends, there is military equipment in Europe, it is not only a matter of production. We have weapons, ammunition, air defense systems, which we do not use yet. They must be handed over to Ukraine," the official stressed. 👍👍👍They must be handed over to Ukraine - YES

@PeterShirlow @JamieBrysonCPNI @unionist_voice And what’s wrong with that?

This week @unionist_voice will be carrying seven essays, each covering the subject matter of a ‘key truth’. 7 Key Truths 👇

@brendanbelfast @TheSundayLife My point is that because a polled majority would vote to rejoin the EU as indeed did a NI majority vote to remain in 2016 it should not be presumed that that same majority would vote for a UI. There is no polling evidence that UI is remotely in sight.

@alanburnside @TheSundayLife I think that is the point 🤔

REVEALED | Overwhelming majority of NI voters back rejoining EU #Lucidtalk belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/ne…

@GordonBrown Quite right Gordon. How do you propose to arrest him?

I have argued for some time that Putin should be brought before the International Criminal Court for his war crimes. We have compelling evidence of Putin-inspired murders on foreign soil. Now he has to explain the suspicious death of an Opposition leader inside Russia. 1/2

@williamcrawley Here’s hoping!

“Depending on what she decides to do, Taylor Swift may be a greater threat to Donald Trump’s re-election than Joe Biden.” Discuss.

@brianjohnspencr Corrrct. Ulster unionists wanted to avoid being subsumed in a Catholic Ireland and they were right as Ireland came under the thumb of McQuaid and only DeValera’s intervention stopped McQuaid enshrining in the 1937 Constitution that Catholicism was the only religion in the State.

Nationalist commentators like Feeney will ritualistic repeat the slogan of “Protestant State” on a near weekly if not daily basis Meanwhile to them the De Valera pronouncement that he was Catholic first and the Free State was a “Catholic Country” may as well never have happened

@bigkenreid His show at one time included an Elvis impersonator whose voice was so close to being authentic. They had hilarious spoof conversations which left me in stitches.

@3000Versts Meanwhile the rest of us have moved on in the hope that public services can rescued by this Executive.

Anybody with any sense knows deep down that the DUP's Irish border claims are just a conjuring trick. newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/c…

@BelTel Maybe it’s only one way?

Socialism think tank forks out £1,400 for Sinn Fein MP’s trip to South Africa belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/ne…

@PeterShirlow @JamieBrysonCPNI Nor has Stephen Nolan whose hysterical delivery simply whips up nonsensical debate.

The DUP are trying to bounce everyone on this deal. All the establishment & pro Surrender Deal campaigners are out in force, whilst everyone else is denied the opportunity to have proper time to scrutinise their ‘deal’. Why? What are they afraid of?

@TomSyvret The weather must have been warmer then.

@cahillbooks @Independent_ie That’s what everyone thinks.

I interviewed Ian Bailey four years ago in west Cork for @Independent_ie . It remains the strangest interview I've done. I don't know definitively whether or not he killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did. m.independent.ie/irish-news/its…

@51Batman @duponline Your problem is that you’re trapped in 1912. Unionists can’t win a border poll without the support of non-unionists. Secondly, UK cares more about EU relationship than it does about NI. UK would ditch NI if it decently could but wants Scotland.

I’m a DUP voter, I’ve not met too many unionists who accept the Protocol. Nor will I ever vote for a party who implement it or anything that harms the Union. The Protocol fundamentally changes NIs place within the Union without anyone’s agreement. Unacceptable. @duponline