Long read on Northern Ireland’s week of chaos: What it’s like inside a riot, being threatened by paramilitaries at a 'peaceful protest', being assaulted by a masked man, and why we can expect this to return again and again and again. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comme…

He came into this country when SHE was Home Secretary. Oh the shamelessness of these politicians. Also - the idea that the UK shouldn’t now take refugees from Sudan? From Sudan?? Where almost everyone agrees there’s a genocide and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

.@mikenesbittni is correct. I have worked in the health service and have had many nursing colleagues from other countries. They are needed, respected and valued members of the healthcare workforce and our communities. They should be welcomed and made to feel safe living here.

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.

This is Belfast! What an incredible turnout today in response to the shocking racism we have seen on our streets this week. Belfast stands together. Hate will never win. Solidarity will!

“These boys used a stone and they hit me on the head on my way back from work all dressed in my nursing uniform. “What was the response when I shared my story online? It was ‘Ireland is tired of immigrants, you should go back home.’ Nobody cares what you do, even though they know I’m a nurse. There is no safety for us, that is the truth." A Nigerian nurse who has worked in Belfast for five years has said the latest scenes of racist violence has made her want to leave Northern Ireland. Read more: tinyurl.com/3yjn7pmb

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

Words matter and words are important. Especially when they come from elected reps. At times of tension you can choose to lead or you can choose to follow. You can choose to calm or you can use to fan the flames. What happened in Belfast last night was beyond evil. However the terrifying violence being inflicted on people and property tonight is sickening and honours no one. It is absolutely disgusting. It is scary and it is not who we are. People are being manipulated and used for clout whilst communities are trashed. They will walk away from the aftermath of violence and pain. Sinister forces are at work and we must call this out. All of us. No ifs no buts.

"If you're a parent you should be wondering where your 15,16,17 old is and get them home." Baroness Foster, former leader of the DUP, calls for "deescalation" in Northern Ireland, adding that it's for "politicians to answer questions about immigration". #Newsnight

Trump’s new acting director of national intelligence has never even received an intelligence briefing before this Thursday. For context, the White House janitorial staff held a higher security clearance than the new Intelligence Director. This is DANGEROUS.

Scapegoating the #Sikh community and their ability to freely practice their faith for the actions of one murderer is wrong. Exemption for Sikh #women and men to wear a #kirpan is extremely limited — a knee-jerk rection to strip hard-won rights is missing the wood for the trees.

Just watch this… And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is. His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak Jaw dropping.

Not saying it's enough to save his job, but Starmer here demolishing Farage & his poisonous far right rhetoric is as good as I have seen him.

🔴 On Mandelson files: The PM texted Peter Mandelson the day before he was officially announced as US ambassador in Dec 24 – according to @spectator reporting in April by @ShippersUnbound – congratulating him on the job. This message *wasn't* included in Monday's Mandelson files, however, despite other messages between Mandelson and govt ministers of this nature being included. When asked at lobby briefing today, No10 spox told me it is 'not true' that this message was gathered as part of Cabinet Office evidence for the Humble Address response, as was reported. When asked whether this was because this message – clearly quoted in piece – was deleted before the Humble Address gathering or wasn't deemed relevant, spox said the PM 'has complied with the humble address' and 'all the messages that he held were passed to the Cabinet Office', adding that the 'guidance is quite clear on what's expected of ministers' and the 'scale of this release shows unprecedented transparency'.  Judging by what other messages were included in the files – e.g. as @STVNews reported on Monday, gushing messages from ex-Scotland Sec Ian Murray and current Scotland Sec Douglas Alexander on Mandelson's appointment – it seems odd that a message of this nature, if retained, wasn't included. But govt spox seems to be saying its deletion – if it was deleted – was not a breach of the guidance on the Humble Address, which raises questions about what else could have fallen into this category and, ultimately, what else was not included in the Mandelson files.

For colleagues who asked about the paperback: KS3: The Ambitious Years is now available earlier than expected. amzn.eu/d/0eywWJAr The book makes the case that KS3 isn’t the waiting room for GCSE, it’s the foundation. Thank you for all the support around this work.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Absolute disaster for the White House. Gallup data confirms Donald Trump's disapproval rating has collapsed to a staggering 63 percent. He officially tied Richard Nixon's Watergate era for the highest disapproval in history. The Trump administration faces total rejection.

Just one week after tobacco giant Reynolds donated $5 million to MAGA Inc. and dined with Trump at his golf club, President Trump directed FDA to authorize the sale of flavored vapes. This corruption is poisoning our kids and unleashing a new wave of addiction on America.

Quick background info on Senator Dick Durbin for anyone interested ⤵️

Incredible speech delivered by Baroness Linforth in the House of Lords today calling for clean indoor air in schools. “It would cost less than a tenner per child per year to provide pupils and staff with clean air - about the same cost as a coffee and a cake.” ☕️🧁