Steve Baker giving full throated support on BBC News. Thinks the deal good enough for reasonable unionists. (View Post)

So much of this will be about detail and what happens next. But you can say a) Sunak has got an agreement because EU leaders rate him b) he's engaged with trade offs c) he's done the work d… (View Post)

Potentially crucial detail from Sunak there. The new "Stormont break" will actually allow the NI Assembly to prevent the application of new EU laws. [in NI] That goes further than many were… (View Post)

Wow - the old Russian tradition of using provincial (and non-Russian) populations as cannon-fodder is alive and well... #Ukraine https://twitter.com/Roger_Moorhouse/status/1630237930257256448?s=20 (View Post)

Ukraine's General Staff says that Russian proxies in Oleshky and Skadovsk in Kherson are preparing to flee to Crimea Russian war hawks have debated the efficacy of fortifications and now they mi… (View Post)