So Irish Examiner journalist Alison O’Reilly hears a solicitor, Gavin Booth say that the suspect in the car bomb case ‘spent time in Saoradh.’ She, being kind, misheard him and reports it as time in Syria. The misreporting (still up, btw) goes around the world and media shrugs. Bizarre

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I fear a lot of more reasonable parts of Biden's foreign policy are going to be discredited if they people defending them can't make a cleaner break with his Gaza policy www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Too many people in politics seem to be labouring under the delusion that the British public welcome violent disorder perpetrated by thugs

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PERSONAL NEWS: I've joined the @newyorker.com full-time as a global-affairs columnist, where I'll be writing a weekly essay on the world. It's a dream gig and I'm still pinching myself that I get to say all these incredible, talented journalists I've long admired are my colleagues!

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I used to work for an organisation housing asylum seekers, and this reminds me of when the Home Office tried to clear up it's backlog, failing to understand housing providers didn't have enough properties to house the flood of applicants who were approved.

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