[Link] 27 People Drowned Trying to Reach the UK

Read: 27/11/2021 www.vice.com

At least 27 people drowned crossing the Channel in an attempt to reach the UK from France.

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[Link] The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

He was the teenage supermarket worker who shocked MPs examining loyalist anger in Northern Ireland by claiming that sometimes violence “was the only tool you have left”. Joel Keys left the committee chair, Tory MP Simon Hoare, “chilled and appalled” and he faced a media backlash.

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[Link] Article 16 ‘very much on the table’ in Brexit row, says Frost

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

David Frost, the UK’s Brexit minister, has said triggering article 16 to suspend post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is “very much on the table”, as he met his EU counterpart in Brussels.

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[Link] British defence chief reveals new AUKUS security pact could expand to include other allies

Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The UK's departing Chief of the Defence Staff has signalled the new trilateral AUKUS security pact with the United States and Australia could be expanded to include other allies such as Japan.

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