Obvious, if profoundly depressing. Driving and roadbuilding dominate even while we know they are unsustainable and ultimately reduce mobility and access. And an infrastructure Department which seems to have stopped trying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In 2022, spending per head in Northern Ireland was £193 - less than half the equivalent spend in England and Scotland.
League tables come and go, and you are only in place for as long as you focus - and for Ulster University to have risen from 96th to 25th in the Guardian Good University Guide since 2018 makes me feel quite proud tbh. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
There have been 143 attacks on homes in NI since last October - most connected with deliberate hate crime. This cannot continue to be normalised or legitimated but that requires direct, deliberate and practical responses not just words. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Officers dealt with a number of reports of criminal damage on Thursday night
Thirty years later, NI is still has too far away from “exclusively democratic and peaceful means of resolving differences on political issues, and our opposition to any use or threat of force by others for any political purpose, whether in regard to this agreement or otherwise.”
Thirty years since the first steps to end politics by armed action in NI. We need to finish the journey. Violence in politics is still overrated here.
Key point; promoting walking and cycling opens cities and streets rather than closing them.
We launched a paper on the persistence of armed/paramilitary groups in NI. Hopefully it helps moves a stuck yet vital issue to a more honest and practical place for change ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/defa… @UlsterUni @QUBSSESW @Domsball @cooperationirl @bsturgeon82 @siobhanmc74 @ARK_info
I got great peas and beetroot this year. Cabbages and Courgettes both did well. Berries not so much.
The Democrats this week are making me think that there might just be some light at the end of the tunnel that started in 2016.
I like this one. The interface is better and it seems less scattergun. But time will tell I suppose