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Ms Haigh had initially told police her work phone was among the various items stolen in the mugging, although she later found it at home. However, she did not initially tell police or her employer at the time, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aviva/\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva</a>, that her work phone had, in fact, not been among the items stolen. She had been issued with a new work phone by Aviva.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSDQUQO7P5G3FIIFDSUCWMZ7AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640641},"content":"When the old work phone was later reactivated she was prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to a minor fraud offence. 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Shoppers thronged the retail and food stalls dotted around the city centre in several locations, including Piccadilly Gardens and Exchange Square outside the Arndale.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBZPVRTY4FEHHNNVQNXERJLFWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"LWKXLQ26UJDITPHLUJG5NOYRDE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WIKSHBPP35A55A6MTADJUFOK3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804619},"content":"However, the mood was different last Saturday. A sense of the day’s events can be gleaned from footage filmed by Travellers and others, much of which has been uploaded to social media, and by accounts given by older community members with relatives who were caught up in the events.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YLV55AQIQFGDNN2FJVVHCWMD4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804620},"content":"Hundreds of Traveller and Gypsy youths began arriving in Manchester city centre from midmorning. It has become a tradition among the community for the youths from across northwest England and Welsh border areas to meet up – wearing “their finery” according to Traveller community groups – for the Manchester markets at this time of year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUVQCKB5GFFUTBX4EWHLQ75QDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804621},"content":"MacNamara said many younger teenagers would have been with older siblings. A lot of the Travellers and Gypsy youths would have been meeting cousins, said Olivia Hammond, who comes from a Gypsy background and works in Preston with the Traveller Movement. Her sister was in Manchester at last Saturday’s markets, while her cousins were also caught up in the events. One girl she knows, from Darlington, was ordered by police on to a train to Leeds, 100km from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6WDMBLVSFCHTCMNDJLBFW2JA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804622},"content":"“It was all absolutely as bad as the footage looked on social media,” said Hammond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HRIOLV72NCERABIEAJYLYFVGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804623},"content":"In November 2022 Manchester police were drafted in to the area around the Arndale and the markets to deal with complaints of disorder among Traveller youths. GMP says it received “intelligence” before last Saturday that renewed disorder was possible and it says complaints were made on the day about trouble on trains approaching Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF5N5L46JFHJRN3DJ2FMP6OSMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804624},"content":"In response to this, Travellers afterwards uploaded to social media videos of the youths laughing and singing on the trains. 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She said there were at least 17 police vans already filled with officers waiting outside Victoria station to meet arriving trains. “To put an operation like that together takes a lot of time,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6BIRNAQ2RHQNLBEN2GXYZHKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804627},"content":"A Manchester Youtuber with no affiliation to Traveller groups, who posts under the handle Manchester Walks, caught the events at the Arndale on camera. A police officer tells him in the footage that GMP was called by Arndale security to remove groups of youths. The scene appears calm, although the officer tells the Youtuber that “historically” there has been trouble. He says they are trying to “prevent a breach of the peace” and the youths are “just going to cause carnage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQOHQDAWINBDTLT4VNU4D7WC4E","additional_properties":{"_id":"VRRGTMCA4RCTJHMA32ZO6RIUPY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZDZ6SAFX65ETVIJ57R4ZUOLVU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804628},"content":"Shortly after noon, a senior GMP officer signed a so-called section 34 dispersal order, which gave police widespread powers to clear groups of people congregating in an area. The order covered the entire city centre, although the only groups that appear to have been subjected to the order were Travellers. The Youtuber asks one youth why they are being “chucked out” of the Arndale. 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As well as the British home office policing and DCMS costs included in the figures, he said the UK’s ministry of defence, Transport for London, fire brigades and local councils also incurred costs related to the coronation, with other estimates putting the total cost at between £100 million and £250 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NYW4ODLJEZFGVPCLJCERTKW3YQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732228409005},"content":"“But even that kind of money – £72 million – is incredible,” Smith added. “It’s a huge amount of money to spend on one person’s parade when there was no obligation whatsoever in the constitution or in law to have a coronation, and when we were facing cuts to essential services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3YYHENINOFCGNL4RZXS5M2JMFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732228409006},"content":"“It was a parade that Charles insisted on at huge expense to the taxpayer, and this is on top of the huge inheritance tax bill he didn’t pay, on top of the £500 million-a-year cost of the monarchy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVTV4N3I75HI5AMOII4BPRUZJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732228409007},"content":"He added: “It was an extravagance we simply didn’t have to have. 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Thousands of farmers gathered in a convention centre for a rally against new <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/inheritance-tax/\" target=\"_blank\">inheritance tax</a> rules, introduced by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-kingdom/\" target=\"_blank\">UK</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">government</a> in last month’s Westminster budget. Leading figures from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/northern-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland</a>’s six main political parties, including the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, spoke from the podium to offer their full support. 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The market value of farmland in the North is double the UK average.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQQKNOOJA5E2PDL6O262Y6WMY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629576},"content":"But the case for a reasonable adjustment has been drowned out by hysterical claims from farmers that their industry and way of life will be destroyed, along with the UK’s food security. None of this happened when the same tax was in place before 1992.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2ZSYRQPH5DA5MWAESOFOXWSAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629577},"content":"Some farmers have threatened to escalate protests to include blocking roads and withholding supplies from supermarkets. The prospect of convoys of agricultural vehicles bringing the UK to a standstill recalls the 2000 fuel protests by lorry drivers, a “yellow-vest” movement before the French coined the term. British governments remain haunted by this event; fuel duty has scarcely risen since. But farmers cannot count on the same degree of public sympathy. Although they may be seen as hardworking and vital producers, they are also regarded as well-off and given to special pleading. In addition, in Northern Ireland, they are increasingly considered a menace to the environment. The crisis in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/08/06/public-health-risks-of-foul-smelling-algal-blooms-on-lough-neagh-detailed-in-new-study/\" target=\"_blank\">Lough Neagh</a> has crystallised this perception, adding noticeable scepticism and impatience towards farmers’ concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYAMZVCXMZHCDPJCSIL4DDFSHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629580},"content":"Thanks to lobbying by the UFU and others, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\" target=\"_blank\">DUP</a> has long vetoed the establishment of an independent environmental protection agency – Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK and Ireland to lack this standard protection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAUVZZOQLZGWZJXZJGOLQW3OFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629581},"content":"In 2022, further lobbying by the UFU persuaded a DUP minister to cap fines for repeated pollution offences at 15 per cent of a farm’s subsidy, down from 100 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOZKM6G63ZHH7IDB7KFX5DYKLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629582},"content":"The power of the farming lobby surpasses mere elected politicians. 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They are more likely to feel demeaned, demoralised, resentful of a controlling bureaucracy, and to be painfully aware of the judgment of others. This could explain their exaggerated sense of anger and entitlement, and the conspiratorial thinking already surrounding the protests about how the government wants to destroy family farms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQMSALGWKNBP5KKKC6SG2HLMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629586},"content":"In last month’s budget it was separately revealed that farm subsidies will be fully devolved to Northern Ireland from next April. Stormont could replace the current flat-rate grant per hectare with a new regime that encourages partnership on the environment and reduces the culture of dependency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEEJJTQT7JFIRNBRJ63ZNPRLPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629587},"content":"But farmers would complain. 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Anger from farmers over increased inheritance tax and from pensioners over cuts to winter fuel payments threatens to overshadow <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/10/30/rachel-reeves-increases-taxes-by-40bn-in-budget-to-address-black-hole-in-uks-public-finances/\" target=\"_blank\">her attempt to reset Britain’s fiscal future.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VP7APNV3LNHBXGPNRMJT2G675Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593941},"content":"Whitehall, the administrative heart of London, is usually dominated by people in pinstriped suits. 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Sources from the left of the party were ebullient at the weekend as they insisted to The Irish Times that the protesting farmers would never vote for them anyway, and that this was a row the party needed to have.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TP7I7XAJ6NAM7EG7H4G6YBWMCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593947},"content":"Analysis of the numbers from July’s election, however, suggests that up to 60 per cent of Labour’s 100 most marginal seats are in rural or semi-rural areas, where the views of farmers would hold sway and are bound to influence the next election, expected to be in 2029.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2X5HIN6JRAVTCGH7WRRV5PCLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593948},"content":"“Labour thinks it can peel off the small farmers from the big boys. 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In line with the area’s cool urban aesthetic, the museum’s main entrance is modern and architecturally interesting. Yet this wasn’t always the front entrance. The museum used to be accessed from the other side where, near the period entrance, there still lies a statue of slave trader Robert Geffrye. The museum opened over a century ago in buildings he donated to house widows of ironworkers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC5E6DOMZFHM5JFXUUX6Y75RXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918782},"content":"Geffrye was a 17th century lord mayor of London and a merchant who earned his fortune in tobacco and the Atlantic slave trade. After the museum reopened in 2021 following a three-year renovation, <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/18/museum-of-the-home-considering-moving-statue-slave-ship-owner-robert-geffrye\" target=\"_blank\">a campaign to remove his statue was led by prominent members of the local community</a> including Labour MP Diane Abbott. 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All of the items had their own stories and some were personal to those who had produced the exhibit: a suitcase sitting on top of the wardrobe had belonged to Kelly’s Kerry-born mother, who died in recent years at the age of 92.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBCS5EYWRNCBBH24LAISSRRZQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918790},"content":"The opening of the Irish room earlier this year attracted three times as many visitors as a normal exhibition debut. Local Irish groups have made “reminiscence visits” to critique the artefacts. Kelly, who had lobbied the museum since 2006 to open an Irish display, has held discussions with other museums in Ireland and Britain about how to use the ”room upstairs” as a template.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ODCNIQNAJCGLAASFLLVTB7OGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918791},"content":"Rooms Through Time includes exhibits derived from other immigrant and ethnic communities: a Jewish family in a 1913 tenement; the 1973 front room of a London family with roots in the Caribbean; a modern flat occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TT25CNSL2RERZGITHGWFVDKWV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918792},"content":"The messy complexities of life are captured by these snapshots of immigrant existence, but also in the row over the slave trader Geffrye’s statue outside the museum’s back door.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5SPGTXNY5GALF7KMVA2JTYH5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918793},"content":"Abbott has said the statue remains “an affront to his victims and offensive to all of us who abhor slavery”. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/king-charles/\" target=\"_blank\">king</a> and other senior royals, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">prime minister</a>, leaders of the opposition; this is their time to lay wreaths. 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Fewer dignitaries, but no less dignity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WAEABYOCRCD3FCJY5KASBBVKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731415440121},"content":"Crowds of ordinary people watched as the Pipes & Drums of the London Scottish Regiment led the WFA’s Cenotaph procession party from the side of the Foreign Office on to Whitehall at 10.45am on Monday. Wreath-layers from civil, military and religious groups, including Sikhs and Muslims, stood at the monument. A lone bugler sounded the Last Post and two minutes of silence began.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SGF7CNPS5VANDNZYW3J2S6A5FM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731415440122},"content":"The two minutes of silence ended but the quiet continued as the wreath-layers did their duty. Everybody seemed suitably sombre where I was standing outside 54 Parliament Street, the old Grindlay’s Bank a few doors up from the Red Lion pub. The crowd was thick at this point, the route ahead blocked. Yet I felt movement and pressing behind me as someone tried in vain to get through.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OED45R3QDBH3HD44GC7ED5S65E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731415440123},"content":"I turned around to find a short man scowling, clearly irritated at being hemmed in. He muttered darkly in a language I recognised as Portuguese, although I had no idea what he was actually saying. Yet somehow I knew he wasn’t reciting Rudyard Kipling. Then I realised the man’s quandary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMVP4Q2VRVBN5AU4EWWIXLVWMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731415440124},"content":"He was dressed in the bright orange uniform of a Just Eat delivery driver and he carried a large food bag. Someone in one of the government offices just ahead had clearly ordered a meal for delivery. For 11am. On Armistice Day. Near the Cenotaph. 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A dozen anti-war protesters from one of the pop-up left-wing groups had blocked the road to decry the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/israel-hamas-conflict/\" target=\"_blank\">suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.</a> London cabbies might be prepared to kill their engines for a few minutes at 11am on November 11th for their war dead. But not for Youth Demand, or whoever it was this time. Later the group would unfurl a banner at the Cenotaph warning of genocide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P53FFCYOFFCYXN4YHDXYVR7NWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731415440127},"content":"Even later on Monday, while rambling through the Facebook pages of the Western Front Association, I noticed a post that said all military records on <a href=\"http://ancestry.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ancestry.com</a> were free to view until midnight on Wednesday, November 13th. “You never know what you might find,” it said. 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It sparked a debate within his own party about the perceived “nanny state” tendencies of the then prime minister, often dismissed as a tech bro fan of Californication. Then he called an election for July, and the bill never made it over the line.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUSIUTBBVBEHXN4QGNO2FTOYMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269066},"content":"Sunak’s “smoke-free generation” pledge mimicked an idea from the then-shadow health secretary, Labour’s Wes Streeting. His party committed itself to the policy after it won the election, and over the summer rumours abounded in Westminster that Labour would bring in an even stricter version.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CJELTJLHBE4PEGLOL5XHV6MKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269067},"content":"At one stage there was a leak of cabinet discussions over whether the new government might even stretch the proposals to ban smoking outdoors in hospitality venues such as pub beer gardens. This sparked fury from some of the populist right-wing elements of British politics who were keen to portray <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer’s</a> new administration as a leftist Big Government coming to end everyone’s fun.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDXAHWAEMVCHRAEVKU7RRB6SQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269068},"content":"The proposal was also strongly opposed by the hospitality industry, who said a ban on smoking at outdoors venues would be excessive and lead to widespread closures. Starmer, who has struggled to form an emotional bond with the electorate, also prided himself on the vestiges of an everyman image of a bloke who just likes to hang out in the pub with his mates in peace.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSWZJMRK7JASHPJC4QEPMIOKFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269069},"content":"Soon opposition to an outdoor smoking ban emerged from inside Downing Street. The bill introduced this week did not contain any proposal to ban outdoor smoking in hospitality. But it does includes measures to ban it in playgrounds, near schools and other sensitive outdoor areas. It also included the restrictions on flavours and packaging from the earlier version of the bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZRADJUZAQ5ADBE6S2LCVPHBWVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269070},"content":"Streeting, now out of the shadows and the health secretary for real, rejected suggestions this week that the government had caved in to lobbying from industry on the outdoor smoking elements. But he acknowledged the “battering” that hospitality had taken this year, and said he did not want to “add to the pressure” with a smoking ban.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EECVPCVKGRBGLES6DISWHRIHGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269071},"content":"Separately, the new Labour government’s war on vaping will open on a new front next June when a ban on disposable vapes is due to come into force on environmental grounds. The legislation for that particular measure was laid before parliament last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K45FICIKYVEMFPSP7DDSI3KUGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730811269072},"content":"Also the Reeves budget last week included extra taxes on vaping, which is subject to 20 per cent on VAT, but did not attract extra levies as tobacco does. 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Under intense pressure at the time from the other contenders over her offhand remarks about maternity pay, Badenoch came out fighting one night at a champagne party hosted by the powerful backbench 1922 Committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFWFDPIIRFD73JKOS3WVT5G6AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910092},"content":"Badenoch bustled her way up to the microphone at the event and launched a facetious broadside at the centrist James Cleverly, who was then jockeying for position as her main contender.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BN6ABQSGOFGA7DKQXR5VH2OXZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910093},"content":"“James thinks he is the best,” Badenoch told the packed event. “Dream on, James. If you want change, vote for renewal, vote for Kemi.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RWML7UOWZFEJOSXXOA7ZGY654","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910094},"content":"Barely a week later, Cleverly was voted out of the contest in a shock decision by MPs. Badenoch went into the final two against fellow right-winger Robert Jenrick, who ran a one-trick leadership pitch centred around pulling Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights to speed up deportations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KVYZUUGB45EAFMUI4P7MXFSJVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910095},"content":"Jenrick, however, always looked like a typical Tory when measured alongside Badenoch, who becomes the first black woman to lead a major political party in Britain. 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Her next wholly separate job, he suggested, was to show enough verve in the role to convince British voters to give her a chance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2M5Z47XPFFDAXOAWATHWPU3NKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910099},"content":"“I am supporting Kemi because I believe she has the right attributes: integrity, courage and the ability to grow in stature as opposition leader,” he said in a Daily Telegraph leader.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QATCAAAEJNEGDFWRDSSGSJRCFI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910100},"content":"When Duncan Smith was Tory leader just over two decades ago, he was eventually forced out of the role by rebellion and scheming among his shadow cabinet members and backbenchers. 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But if Reeves, who on Wednesday will deliver a tough <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-kingdom/\" target=\"_blank\">UK</a> budget in the House of Commons, had chosen to have a go, she might have tried a version of Abba’s famous ode to straitened finances, Money Money Money: <i>“</i>I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay/Ain’t it sad?/And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me/That’s too bad.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RVIYCIEBFFQZGD54WCRBEICL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304068},"content":"While Reeves didn’t pick up the microphone at the Mirror party, she did, according to people there, sing the praises of the Republic’s fiscal duo, Minister for Finance <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-chambers/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Chambers</a> and Minister for Public Expenditure <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/paschal-donohoe/\" target=\"_blank\">Paschal Donohoe</a>. Reeves was overheard telling an Irish official at the party that she was delighted she had met “Jack and Paschal” earlier that month. Donohoe and Chambers had been on separate trips to London at the beginning of September. Both called in on Reeves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3IW43RDENHNDDJBQ2YIF6FOV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304069},"content":"Reeves had a £22 billion (about €26 billion) unfunded “black hole” to fill in Britain’s finances as soon as she started the job in July after Labour’s election win. In her budget on Wednesday, she faces a much tougher task: how to spur immediate economic growth while also funding Britain’s creaking public services and sticking to Labour’s much-vaunted election promise not to raise taxes on workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MG6RYCK4BB5HHPC7BSRHLRKHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304070},"content":"Reeves has got to achieve all of this while keeping the public finances under control and loosening fiscal rules to allow more borrowing. Arguably she faces the toughest economic conditions of any new chancellor since the second World War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5AGQPEHGBBFGFJP7VHPCK2QK3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304071},"content":"Many Labour insiders acknowledge that she certainly has a tougher task than Gordon Brown. When he took over as chancellor in 1997 following Labour’s landslide election victory under Tony Blair, the British economy was already growing at almost 5 per cent annually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO4BYOQPQ5C53C2V7IDZPL5GAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304072},"content":"Even Alistair Darling, Labour’s chancellor during the financial crash of 2008, had an easier job than Reeves. Darling had basically no choice but to save Britain’s banks, as other nations in Europe and also the US were already bailing out their banks at the time, and so his central policy was in effect decided for him. Reeves must weigh myriad policy options, few attractive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMYCM5OVANHSDNXCTZIC25EFVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304073},"content":"What sort of a woman and politician is Reeves? Does she have the steel required to make tough decisions? The financial kingpins of the City of London appear to believe she does. 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The pub had always been at the centre of community life in the village of Troedyrhiw, in the valleys of South <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wales</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJPPDFEUXRD3FDKLZ5TOZO4EF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943797},"content":"Collins redecorated it and rented out the upstairs rooms on Airbnb to secure its commercial future. “It does well,” he said last week. “This is our community pub, our place.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6P66OCQ43VHFJOMA6VDTYV2GJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943798},"content":"One wall of the pub was filled with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United</a> memorabilia, including a signed shirt from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/wayne-rooney\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Rooney</a>. An avid United fan, Collins remembers the club sending a bus to the area in 1967 to bring him and other local schoolchildren from nearby villages to a match at Old Trafford.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQ33FQFIBJERFP52SCMQPDWYKU","additional_properties":{"_id":"27HALACZLRAWHEEX2T3GFPPGRU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"OG4WPRO7ZVGQDI2FMUVFPVDGCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943799},"content":"The gesture was meant to lift the spirits of the children: Troedyrhiw was barely a mile up the road from the village of Aberfan, where the previous year a coal tip slid down a hill and buried Pantglas Junior School. It killed 116 children and 28 adults, one of Britain’s worst peacetime disasters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SUNLDSEDYZEKVHZ6BDEVTRQV74","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943800},"content":"The 58th anniversary of the disaster falls this Monday. October 21st, 1966 changed Aberfan forever.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FYLDUSVDNZCTVLUJ4BWZAYU6LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943801},"content":"Collins was aged seven. His father was a coal miner and among the hordes of locals who descended on the scene to dig for survivors. The villages along the valley were one interlinked community. Children Collins knew were wiped out that day, gone forever. For years, even decades afterwards locals found it hard to talk about it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRDQ2VXUZFEQ5N6MN5EVB5AON4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943802},"content":"“Women in the village would cry when it was mentioned... a disaster that size in such a small place. But I think that might be fading now,” said Collins.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U7KEGMIJTNECZDV6CSDMZUJC3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943803},"content":"Pain might fade, but the memory hasn’t nor has the fear that a similar tragedy could reoccur. Wales remains dotted with 4,000 waste coal tips like the one that devastated Aberfan, where it was recklessly built on top of a water spring. In 2020, a tip slid down a hill in nearby Tylorstown after days of heavy rain and storms. Luckily nobody was hurt; the debris hit a river.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGIGDPPMCZFJXGNAAYYLFOASCA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943804},"content":"The Welsh government has published maps online of the 350 waste coal tips that pose the biggest risk. There have been 2,000 safety inspections of coal tips carried out in recent years, costing the devolved government close to £60 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M73KK7TSQRDEVADIWMZI4M4XJM","additional_properties":{"_id":"JJT25BE6HJFHTMBNKGKJKM3QNE"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"MZL5VN3MKRABFLMTQNEHUF2UWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943805},"content":"Eluned Morgan, the Labour first minister of Wales, was grilled about the issue last Tuesday in the Welsh parliament, the Senedd, in Cardiff Bay. Many in Wales believe the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-kingdom/\" target=\"_blank\">UK</a> government should pay the bill to make the tips safe and deal with the legacy of coal mining. Morgan told Senedd members she had raised it with UK prime minister Keir Starmer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUEECUNEQRGRXI45YIEZBGSWIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943806},"content":"Plaid Cymru leader Rhys ab Owen said some of the coal waste that had buried the children of Aberfan had been later dumped in the docks near Cardiff Bay after the school site was cleared: “Therefore, our Senedd and Welsh democracy are built on that appalling tragedy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2ZLP7Q5YNAF7G46A26NIJXZPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943807},"content":"Later on Tuesday, Morgan told The Irish Times that Aberfan remained “seared on the minds” of Welsh people. “We’re taking the safety issue very seriously,” she said. A new Bill has been introduced to the Senedd to deal with the issue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WF7FXDZYJVEITJWAIZ65DPWK6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943808},"content":"Back in Aberfan, the legacy of the disaster endures as attention returns each October 21st. At a symposium held for a past anniversary, Jeff Edwards, a former Pantglas pupil who became a politician, recalled the day it happened. He was reading a Tintin book when he heard the rumble of the approaching coal tip breaking down the hillside towards them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T757O6GXRBMNC6AFUMW6HD6GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943809},"content":"He was the final survivor dug out. He had spent many hours buried beside a dead girl, her head on his shoulder. “As time went on, her face became puffy and her eyes became sunken into her head,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JI6SAN4DVNCM7OZSH3NS67QR4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943810},"content":"The disaster changed local children forever. “A whole generation of young people were wiped out. There was no one left to play with,” Edwards said. He later suffered from depression and anxiety, but said talking about it helped him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Q5ZOOPE3VCGXGJ4NMELTNCODM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5MA5ZEY37RBRXLWRTK5UITIXXM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DDSVCTUPORE6TFLPLZBNRHAYNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943811},"content":"Capel Aberfan, a chapel that doubled as a temporary morgue for the disaster, last week lay derelict in the village; it burnt down in 2015. “Lord save us: we perish,” was written on the wall. Nearby a memorial garden sits on the Pantglas school site, including trees planted on earlier anniversaries by the late Queen Elizabeth and former Prince of Wales, now King Charles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSW6LZAJ3JDXDFCUSZKYVTUJE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943812},"content":"Across the road lies the Aberfan community and leisure centre, built with money from the disaster fund. It became a place of local healing. It was threatened with closure earlier this year in a funding row; there were even hoax notices erected saying it would shut on April 1st. But a deal was struck and the council became the centre’s trustee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NIKPKPLX5ZGRXDRVGMH6KLRYUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943813},"content":"A five-minute walk away, many disaster victims are buried together in a special section of the local cemetery, their white gravestones standing out, high on the hillside. 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They meet multitudes of strangers. This was a warm, funny moment that underlined how politicians – despite their occasional attempts to prove otherwise – are just ordinary people like the rest of us, with brain blips and busy schedules.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7Z6RBS6MNFVHBE5G7FSO3UKZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085243},"content":"Morgan (57) was good company – chatty, informed, ready for debate and with a twinkle in her eye. Gareth Harding, a Welsh writer based in Brussels where she spent 15 years as a member of the European Parliament, once said that when she first arrived, she “liked to party”. 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In August she became first minister, succeeding Vaughan Gething. He had lasted less than five months after a donor row and falling out with his colleagues.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEUMEFGSSNHAPMGHERTO7M3BJA","additional_properties":{"_id":"EO4M3WY4NNES3GREZV5HA3ZLFA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"K43B6KPJF5AEXBUYTJWJQ47XZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085247},"content":"This Thursday, she is due to visit Cork for the annual bilateral between the two governments, the Ireland-Wales Forum. On the way she is to call in on President <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-d-higgins\" target=\"_blank\">Michael D Higgins</a> at Áras an Uachtaráin. Left-leaning British politicians are enchanted by him: “I’m really excited. I haven’t met him before, but I heard him speak in the Lords. I’ve been a massive fan ever since, and obviously there is his whole cultural background and the poetry. 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It was “the Celtic connection”, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YKVP4RFWAJCLPM6PA34SUHQOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085250},"content":"Back on her home turf, Morgan’s in-tray is mounting. Labour has been in power for a quarter of a century in Wales, and faces elections in 2026. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nigel-farage\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Farage</a>’s Reform UK party is threatening to make inroads in the more industrial south of Wales, while Plaid is also on the march, notably in the north.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X7IVNZU25JGPXB3LCVOPMFVOV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085251},"content":"“Yes, we’re taking the Reform threat seriously. If you’ve been in power for a long time like us, you need to keep testing that you are in tune with what the public wants. What has come back to us is the NHS, the economy and provide better jobs.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOW6RX7KKFFSFKKRQ7ECUXMJI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085252},"content":"She said the Brexit Party, a Reform forerunner, tried to break into Wales before but “fell apart almost the moment they walked in; no coherence, no policy agenda”. Farage launched his party’s UK election campaign this year in Merthyr Tydfil, a statement of intent. Did she know him from Brussels, where he was an MEP for 20 years?","type":"text"},{"_id":"UGANV36VLBDQ7CIMP7UV72CGRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085253},"content":"“I wouldn’t say I had lots of dealings with him but, of course, I met him in the bar, where everyone else met him.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6AFONSE4BCQTPL55UKJ3BPMKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085254},"content":"The election of a UK Labour government in July was “like night and day” compared with relations between the Welsh government and Westminster under the Tories, according to Morgan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUUUUHRDLRDZHIWWLYZZP76TWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085255},"content":"She said that when she was health minister, she spoke to a UK Tory health secretary only once, “and afterwards he tried to throw me under a bus”. Tories often point to higher waiting lists in Wales as evidence of Labour mismanagement, although Morgan retorts that her population is “older, sicker and poorer” than elsewhere in Britain.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WPU6IN7ZK5FQBIGNRRKEARNK4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085256},"content":"“On day one [of the new Labour UK government], Wes [Streeting, the UK health secretary] picked up the phone. I had waited two years for someone to pick up the phone from the Tory party.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVOHNCWV7BGNDIX5L37PADTHLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085257},"content":"Morgan has also been in phone contact with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/sue-gray\" target=\"_blank\">Sue Gray</a>, recently ousted as prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer</a>’s chief of staff, but supposedly in line to be his envoy to devolved nations and regions of Britain. She and Morgan had been texting, the first minister said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKWOHQ6CBBCXREZ3G7X75A22WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085258},"content":"“We are organising a time for her to come and visit Wales. I’m really pleased that she has got this role, and pleased that the UK government realises it is one of the most centralised countries in the world and that if you want to drive the economy, you need to devolve powers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJEB3SSIHRDZREW7VAQO72FIWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085259},"content":"In the meantime, Morgan’s critics will be waiting for her. 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This would not be unusual in the sports-mad Welsh capital, but some of them did not look quite right. Upon closer inspection, a minority were Montenegrin – red like Wales, but with an eagle instead of a dragon. The Welsh were hosting the Balkanites for a Nations League football match. All roads led to Cardiff City stadium.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRN2PRAMWZGR5GMS73WY5QIVLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329889},"content":"That it is a cliche makes it no less true, but football really can be a unifying force. In Cardiff, this applies off the pitch as much as on it. Football has provided the backdrop in recent years for some of the most arresting visual celebrations of the city’s long-standing ethnic diversity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPKAOHIC3NBUHA4IAGRHLDNAPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329890},"content":"London is usually assumed to be the birthplace of multicultural Britain, but it was probably Cardiff. In the mid 19th century, the city’s docklands area mushroomed as an export hub for Welsh coal. Seafarers from across the world settled there. From the 1850s onwards, almost a century before the Windrush generation arrived in London, Cardiff was home to many Yemeni, Somali and Afro-Caribbean dock workers. They settled in a docklands area known as Tiger Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VF7T3WMVQFBKTOYIHSAZRG2QVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329891},"content":"The main thoroughfare of the area was Bute Street, which by the turn of the 20th century was lined with the sort of restaurants and lodging houses that wouldn’t appear elsewhere in Britain for another 40 or 50 years. Outlets such as the Cairo Cafe, Singapore Cafe and Ebony Cafe abounded on Bute Street and Loudoun Square off the main drag.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XQ3BSYMXVGM5DUWRRYE7YYK4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329892},"content":"Interracial mingling of the sexes was tolerated in Tiger Bay, including later unions between local white women and black American GIs stationed nearby during the second World War. The area was no ethnic utopia. Its residents experienced discrimination and other denizens of Cardiff had disparaging nicknames for it. But it wasn’t a race-fuelled tinderbox, either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQWPDO2X3BDQZPAR67RXLMG7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":"OK3CIRSQJVAZJCTSTTRBXOFKEE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MQMICHOFS5HWPHKI2RPRPQJIRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329893},"content":"Tiger Bay’s demise as a distinct enclave began in the 1960s, when the local authorities started clearing slums. Much of the heartland of Tiger Bay to the west of Bute Street was rebuilt as generic council estates. In the 1980s and 1990s, a plan was hatched to flood the southern end of Tiger Bay in an enclosed harbour, around which modern entertainment and hospitality outlets were built. This area, also home to the Welsh parliament, the Senedd, is now known as Cardiff Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KAKVVHO6FFGBFIXIKFOI7G6MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329894},"content":"Echoes of Tiger Bay still exist on Bute Street, which has several Yemeni and Somali shops and cafes. The Butetown area to the west of the street is still the most diverse part of Cardiff; census figures show that more than a third of its residents are of various ethnicities other than British white. Overall, roughly 10 per cent of Cardiff’s population are Muslims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOMSMBN2DJCFHMO6W6Q222VHNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329895},"content":"James Street runs along the southern end of Butetown near the bright lights of Cardiff Bay. In 2021, local art group Unify, founded by Yusuf Ismail and Shawqi Hasson, painted a huge mural on the gable end of a nearby building. Under the banner My City, My Shirt, it showed a black immigrant woman, Maimuna Indjai, wearing a blue Cardiff City football jersey, an African headdress and an enigmatic smile. It quickly became known locally as “Cardiff’s Mona Lisa”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESYK64RHZNDKHFZMFDRYIS4FTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"HZ3YUUH4V5D35KTID5RUCSJTNA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AFORXZ5N4NFMNOWUEVP7TTBCM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329896},"content":"Set against a red background, the startling image was embellished by the sight of Indjai cradling her heavily-pregnant belly. Predictably, there was a local outcry in 2022 when it was painted over for a McDonald’s advertisement. Unify secured another gable end further along James Street, and the piece was repainted there, where it remains today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IY73HCKDWBABPNQLVZTT2JBMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329897},"content":"For the Euros tournament held in 2021, Unify painted another football-themed mural on Quay Street that soon earned widespread acclaim. It showed a mixed-race women with an Afro haircut in a Wales jersey under the banner My Cymru, My Shirt. It was meant to evoke the image and hairstyle of George Berry, born to a Jamaican father, who made his debut for Wales in 1979, six months after Viv Anderson became the first black man to play for England. It, too, was painted over last year. This week in its place there was a huge ad for the film Transformers One.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5XJ3GNDQZHMDJ6C3L53GYDQSA","additional_properties":{"_id":"BIWUZTV2M5DP3GSTFWZF2S7TLM"},"content":"Did Leonardo give 'Mona Lisa' a younger sister?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"D5XUCLFGHRC4NCOEQHU73DGDQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329898},"content":"Almost a half century before the more-acclaimed Anderson and Berry, however, the first black player in Britain to play international football was Eddie Parris, a Welshman whose father came from Barbados. He made his Wales debut in 1931 – a 4-0 loss to Northern Ireland – but got only one cap.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPHIJZTQBRGWVIZWGJUQAOMYTA","additional_properties":{"_id":"Q55BDZ5FMRFK5AWUCPKIQDOVMU"},"content":"Multicultural Britain. 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Ben Cabango, whose father is Angolan, had a solid game in defence and Sorba Thomas, whose father comes from Sierra Leone, came on to relieve the pressure near the end.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3KTSL45AJCRXLQCQKJLAYO2BI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329900},"content":"The Wales supporters retired to the city’s kebab shops and curry houses for celebratory meals.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Paul"}},"name":"Mark Paul"}]},"description":{"basic":"The Welsh capital was a hub for immigrants a century before the Windrush generation landed in England"},"display_date":"2024-10-16T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Cardiff’s football ‘Mona Lisa’ underscores the city’s long-standing ethnic diversity","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"5469"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"GFIDGDGS5NDT7EGNSTGVRVRVX4","auth":{"1":"256d7ee3f3dae4eafbfe87e60f96a1432bb041732241c1ffebdecdf9a49e1711"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GFIDGDGS5NDT7EGNSTGVRVRVX4.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"UK"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/uk/2024/10/16/cardiffs-football-mona-lisa-underscores-the-citys-long-standing-ethnic-diversity/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/uk","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"UK"}}}},{"_id":"SZ75GE6UKBCBPEXNN6QLCELWCY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":177,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/89244015-17cf-46c5-bd9b-a82ff66fdf7f/versions/1728839553/media/db9059ee43828caadc2b8660b1179f4a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/world/uk/2024/10/13/uk-government-must-say-what-brussels-reset-means-says-eu-delegation-head/","content_elements":[{"_id":"AJXJKOHTBNEX7E6OPMD3GOP3ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824545},"content":"Keir Starmer’s government must spell out what it wants from a reset of Britain’s relationship with the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\">European Union</a>, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-parliament/\" target=\"_blank\">European Parliament</a>’s lead MEP on the UK has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RUKA45V7PFEAFJYQW7Z45AHIZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824546},"content":"In his first interview since being elected chair of the European Parliament’s delegation to the <a href=\"https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/uk-parliamentary-assemblies/ppa-uk-delegation/\">EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly</a> earlier this month, Sandro Gozi, an Italian former European affairs minister, said there was potential for a reset with the Starmer government, which had shown “a change in attitude”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZHYF57IWVHSNOSXPOU5QCFEJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824547},"content":"“There is a possibility to enter into a new phase in our bilateral relationship,” said Gozi, a member of France’s Democratic Movement party, which is allied with President Emmanuel Macron’s MEPs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDQEJSVVBBDKXFNA35WQTXHDDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824548},"content":"The Italian politician said he was neither happy nor disappointed with the British government’s approach so far, and was in listening mode. “I think that it is the UK government who has to spell out what they mean with resetting,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HQL6YKYDQ5GEFPWFT6EFIZ72G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824549},"content":"He hoped, he said, to see more co-operation on foreign policy and security, the green transition and artificial intelligence, but added: “It is the British side that must identify what are the possible items to tell us what we can do together.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDLAWMQXLFCONH5LBNYLXJZDJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824550},"content":"He was speaking before a working lunch between David Lammy and his EU counterparts in Luxembourg on Monday. Mr Lammy will not be the first UK foreign secretary to attend a meeting of the EU’s foreign affairs council since Brexit – Liz Truss was a guest at an emergency meeting in March 2022 soon after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – but it will be the first time the Labour minister has met all 27 EU ministers together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QIYL55RHENGCLPMPXPYO6753UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824551},"content":"The foreign secretary will also hold a bilateral meeting with the bloc’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, who chairs EU foreign ministers’ meetings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OV2E6RCIRRDF3PW6ZDIXSEYVUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728833824552},"content":"A high-ranking EU official said: “Finally, I hope, we are normalising Brexit and now we can start a new chapter in the relationship with the United Kingdom.” The meeting would be “an important point of departure to strengthen foreign policy co-operation with the United Kingdom”, the official said. “There is an interest in security agreements. 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He took solace in the fact that, even if Parnell didn’t achieve his goal, most of Ireland eventually got independence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOQMYQAN7REV3CLTU2CNBUEQHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053635},"content":"“When Parnell fell upon difficult times, the cause of independence didn’t fall with him,” he said. “The cause of [Scottish] independence is impossible to reverse. It’s as near an inevitability as you’ll get in politics. It’ll find its means and mechanism at some point. It’s just the timescale that’s up for grabs.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF6RXU4ISJGTJK33AOHCOPFTJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053636},"content":"Salmond was an economist by training but a politician by gut, and a formidable orator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKYGZ3HHKRDQRPT7P7VZ4JAEVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053637},"content":"Born in West Lothian, he worked at first as an economist in the civil service on Scottish agricultural matters in London, where he met his wife Moira, and later as an oil economist for Royal Bank of Scotland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIWSLGYFEVDYXFLLLGMQZ3P324","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053638},"content":"A former Westminster MP and member of Scotland’s devolved parliament, he joined the SNP and established himself as one of the dominant voices of Scottish politics, serving as first minister for seven years from 2007. He led the SNP between 1990 and 2000, and again from 2004 until the aftermath of Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, the holding of which he had negotiated with former UK prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/david-cameron/\" target=\"_blank\">David Cameron</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6YDG4VXPHNB5ZMJKZ45JY3DFJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053639},"content":"“Cameron was an impressive prime minister,” Salmond told The Irish Times in his final <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2023/06/09/lunch-with-alex-salmond-fishing-for-votes-amid-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-scottish-independence/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with this newspaper</a>. “He was no Einstein, but he looked like a prime minister. He had an insouciance, although that was also one of his weaknesses. He assumption was that there was no chance whatsoever of Scotland becoming independent.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DG6DVPPYZHH5NDNTDMVOQOUJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053640},"content":"Salmond recalled the day in 2014 that he struck the referendum deal with Cameron and they announced it in Edinburgh. He said he set it up to look like “the signing of an international treaty”. For the benefit of the cameras, he said, he installed a map of Scotland directly behind Cameron marked with all of the SNP’s political seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LWX4UEXWVZBIFPCKAFNGU2236U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053641},"content":"“It is part of the art of politics to make your combatant feel less secure,” he said. “Politics is a science but it is also an art, and you have to have the ability to paint the weather. It you want sunshine, you must paint the sun.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2QYEXWH4VBMDDGOI3PJ5VPPAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053642},"content":"Although briefly in front at one stage in the 2014 campaign, the nationalists lost the independence vote by 45 per cent to 55 per cent and Salmond handed over the reins of the SNP to his deputy, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nicola-sturgeon/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Sturgeon</a>. The referendum, although a defeat on paper, would prove to be perhaps the high watermark of Salmond’s political career for putting Scottish independence firmly on the UK’s agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R535JZEWMVCFRASTHGK2YYFFUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053643},"content":"Salmond later had a spectacular falling-out with Sturgeon over allegations made against him of inappropriate behaviour with women, which he denied. An inquiry later found Salmond had been treated unfairly in a party investigation and in 2020 he was also found not guilty in a criminal court of a range of sexual offences, which he had claimed were a political set-up. He later left the SNP and founded the Alba party as a rival nationalist outfit, although it gained little electoral traction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOGVELZ7R5C7PLSCYK36P5XMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053644},"content":"Angus Brendan MacNeil, a former SNP MP based in the Outer Hebrides whose mother was from Waterford, said Salmond died still a “colossus” of Scottish politics. MacNeil, who quit the SNP in 2023, was politically close to Salmond although he didn’t join him at Alba. They remained in close contact right until Salmond’s death, exchanging WhatsApp messages and talking on the phone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIRCGH4KAJFLRG5Y76SEZ24F2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053645},"content":"“Somebody sent me a text on Saturday to say he had died,” said MacNeil. “You just don’t believe that kind of thing when you read it. I am in complete shock. It was a gut punch.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CME7LGUNTREZNOHFYOCJSI622A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053646},"content":"MacNeil recalled the first time as a young political activist that he met Salmond, at an SNP conference in the 1990s. He said there was a bomb scare and he was sent to pass a note about it to someone near the stage, who then passed it on to Salmond, who was in the middle of a speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXSI5WS2KFHEJBZNZTO2S5BI2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053647},"content":"“He just put it to one side and continued with his speech,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNUZWHCI5FDGPGH3UITVHOB4YU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053648},"content":"MacNeil said Salmond “liked people; he could also like people he disagreed with and he didn’t have much rancour with them”. In much of the unionist UK media in London, however, Salmond was often portrayed as a demagogue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZK46OK3JYZABPDSV43TFDH2NMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053649},"content":"“His flaws were greatly exaggerated and the truth of all of that will come out eventually,” said MacNeil. “He was a political colossus who just about changed Scotland’s future. 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The final details haven’t yet been revealed, but it seems it will be similar to Falconer’s proposal, which would give the right to people with six months or less to live, as long as they are of sound mind. Broadly similar changes are under consideration in Scotland and Jersey.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3HJYERRIFAJ3GEWAEKEVHK7EE","additional_properties":{"_id":"CA6PFNE24BCZHPK4KBBOX4XS5Q"},"content":"Assisted dying in Germany: Ralf Bladt was 56 years old, loved his road haulier job and big cars","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YTICNBQGIJFETI5DXAQETMHSVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728388373034},"content":"Leadbeater’s Bill is likely to be introduced in the Commons as soon as next Wednesday and the first vote could take place before the end of the year. There is opposition from some <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/disability/\" target=\"_blank\">disability</a> campaigners, for example, who see it as a slippery slope that could see the value of their lives and the lives of others undermined, and even pressure put on them to end it all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"23J7J7WOTJG67KPI37LZ2N367I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728388373035},"content":"Other opponents include campaigners for better palliative care services. At least a quarter of Britons who seek end-of-life care are unable to access it. Some campaigners believe having a right to assisted dying will undermine palliative care resources even further.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDJUJO2L45FH5KSEENBFBIVZNE","additional_properties":{"_id":"NSC3KCNNZVB7PLJJ43JMHOSM4E"},"content":"Should assisted dying be legalised? 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They would need sign-off from a high court judge and also from two doctors. The patients would also have to be capable of administering the drugs themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECW24UBSFVDJDH323HBJPVOJ3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616654},"content":"It was a free vote, meaning MPs could vote according to their conscience and were not whipped along party lines. This made the outcome of the vote unpredictable. MPs previously rejected a similar proposal in 2015.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2AD5DELPVBYHCABER7N7T73PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616655},"content":"The debate started at 9.30am and the bell rung for MPs to divide into the “yes” and “no” lobbies at about 2.10pm. Prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer</a>, whose government was meant to remain neutral on the Bill, entered the chamber for the first time at 2.15pm, after he had voted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JIZQ4F64X5FWJIQDIVRJGCK2UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616656},"content":"The first indication that the proposal had passed was noticed by journalists watching from the gallery, in the minutes before the tellers announced the result. A colleague of Ms Leadbeater who had been speaking to her could be seen giving a quick thumbs up to another MP across the floor as she sat down. 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One of them was former prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rishi-sunak/\" target=\"_blank\">Rishi Sunak</a>, who said afterwards that he believed it would “prevent suffering”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSESB7HR2NGYDA7V2VGEV3HQBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616659},"content":"Former chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt also backed it, while the new Tory leader <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kemi-badenoch/\" target=\"_blank\">Kemi Badenoch</a> opposed it because, she argued, it lacked safeguards. Mr Starmer, who backed assisted dying in the 2015, also voted for Ms Leadbeater’s proposal on Friday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYLTJZS7LZBOZHZJSHJCP32ZHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616660},"content":"There was clear evidence of splits in the cabinet over the issue, however. Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner voted no, along with health secretary Wes Streeting, who had argued the health service needed more resources for palliative care to give patients a proper choice. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, and the foreign secretary David Lammy also opposed it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ILLGSLLRUVG6PAJNWGECRNKB2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616661},"content":"The margin of victory for the yes camp, although clear, may not be wide enough to prevent opponents of the plan from feeling emboldened to add in further safeguards and restrictions at committee stage and in the House of Lords. It is expected that any assisted dying system could take the health service two years to establish.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32JBTQ5CAFH2FJCDDSHYCACOAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732903616662},"content":"Earlier on Friday during the debate, passions ran high but tempers stayed calm. 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Ms Haigh had initially told police her work phone was among the various items stolen in the mugging, although she later found it at home. However, she did not initially tell police or her employer at the time, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aviva/\" target=\"_blank\">Aviva</a>, that her work phone had, in fact, not been among the items stolen. She had been issued with a new work phone by Aviva.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSDQUQO7P5G3FIIFDSUCWMZ7AU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640641},"content":"When the old work phone was later reactivated she was prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to a minor fraud offence. It is believed Ms Haigh declared the matter, which she says was a “genuine mistake”, to the proper Whitehall authorities when appointed to shadow cabinet in recent years, but her conviction was not known publicly until now.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVASVMMGDBCRZO6VYROQ77C33I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640642},"content":"“As you know, in 2013 I was mugged in London. As a 24-year old woman, the experience was terrifying,” she wrote to the prime minister in her resignation letter. She acknowledged that she “should have immediately informed my employer” when she found out the phone had not actually been stolen.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZBBROXZFLVDKTOTTM5EF3TQVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640643},"content":"“Whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4QM5FOMGZA33HGEAWPUFVCAJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640644},"content":"Mr Starmer thanked her for her work to date and said she still had a “huge contribution to make in future”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5ZVSHGPFFAPJPKAPEQQGJUIMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732904513669},"content":"He announced that he will replace Ms Haigh with Heidi Alexander, who served as the deputy mayor for transport in London between 2018 and 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RF7T4RDNYBGRXK4PJMZ7KJOPD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732866640645},"content":"Ms Haigh, a Sheffield MP who is immediately identifiable in parliament due to her distinctive personal style, was the youngest woman ever appointed to a UK cabinet.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSQ4SZPYZFBS3KI3QWEA4SHBFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732870133211},"content":"She previously served as Labour’s shadow Northern Ireland secretary before moving to the shadow transport brief. 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It has become a tradition among the community for the youths from across northwest England and Welsh border areas to meet up – wearing “their finery” according to Traveller community groups – for the Manchester markets at this time of year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YUVQCKB5GFFUTBX4EWHLQ75QDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804621},"content":"MacNamara said many younger teenagers would have been with older siblings. A lot of the Travellers and Gypsy youths would have been meeting cousins, said Olivia Hammond, who comes from a Gypsy background and works in Preston with the Traveller Movement. Her sister was in Manchester at last Saturday’s markets, while her cousins were also caught up in the events. One girl she knows, from Darlington, was ordered by police on to a train to Leeds, 100km from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M6WDMBLVSFCHTCMNDJLBFW2JA4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804622},"content":"“It was all absolutely as bad as the footage looked on social media,” said Hammond.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HRIOLV72NCERABIEAJYLYFVGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804623},"content":"In November 2022 Manchester police were drafted in to the area around the Arndale and the markets to deal with complaints of disorder among Traveller youths. GMP says it received “intelligence” before last Saturday that renewed disorder was possible and it says complaints were made on the day about trouble on trains approaching Manchester.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EF5N5L46JFHJRN3DJ2FMP6OSMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804624},"content":"In response to this, Travellers afterwards uploaded to social media videos of the youths laughing and singing on the trains. There appears to be no video evidence so far of trouble on the trains.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SW5FN5XF5FFJNFPTCPAWL2EKUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804625},"content":"The force did not directly respond to questions from The Irish Times seeking further details about the volume and nature of the rail complaints, who made them and whether there had been any arrests or police action. When British Transport Police was asked if it held records of a spike in reports of trouble on trains to Manchester that day, it said the query was “too vague” and suggested a Freedom of Information request might be necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AIHVW7Q4NREXNA3MNV5XEQPEGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804626},"content":"MacNamara said the suggestion that police acted last Saturday on the basis of a litany of reports of trouble on trains by Travellers was “nonsense” and the operation was planned in advance. She said there were at least 17 police vans already filled with officers waiting outside Victoria station to meet arriving trains. “To put an operation like that together takes a lot of time,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T6BIRNAQ2RHQNLBEN2GXYZHKLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732880804627},"content":"A Manchester Youtuber with no affiliation to Traveller groups, who posts under the handle Manchester Walks, caught the events at the Arndale on camera. A police officer tells him in the footage that GMP was called by Arndale security to remove groups of youths. The scene appears calm, although the officer tells the Youtuber that “historically” there has been trouble. 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A report earlier this year from heritage watchdog Historic England showed that vandalism of heritage and tourist sites is on the rise and now presents a “significant threat”, especially to old churches with valuable stone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJCQ26CDCRGPTFZC6KCBPE4GBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732628532475},"content":"Just this month vandals attacked a locally-beloved statue in Edwinstowe, a Nottinghamshire village on the edge of Sherwood Forest. The statue depicted Robin Hood proposing to Maid Marian. Vandals ripped the couple’s arms off. Residents quoted in local newspaper reports simply couldn’t understand it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXTJ4BMOP5BLVOGAMD5A5NLITY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732628532476},"content":"Last week two youths scaled the top of the 800-year old round tower at Dolbadarn Castle, an iconic sight at the base of Yr Wyddfa, a Welsh mountain also known as Snowdon. The youths wielded hammers and also threw ancient blocks to the ground below. Police, who caught one of the vandals, described the damage as “unbelievable”. The act of destruction was videoed and went viral on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3JESEKQSNFE7CNTE6E3D6HWUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732628532477},"content":"The 12th century Aberdeenshire Huntly Castle, the ancestral home of the Gordon clan, was also vandalised this month. In August it was the turn of the 13th century Kilwinning Abbey on Scotland’s coast southwest of Glasgow. One of its 13th century piers was bludgeoned to rubble. Meanwhile, Anglican churches in the north of England are reeling from a spate of thefts of valuable York Stone, stripped from their walls and pathways. Eight churches were attacked earlier this year in just a few nights in Cheshire and Lancashire. Historic England says this type of crime is rising by 10 per cent annually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5EPPYUBZ5VHHTCHN2R44NI3OHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732628532478},"content":"As attacks on Britain’s national heritage these incidents all pale in the shadow of the felling of the ancient tree at Sycamore Gap at Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. It stunned the nation when news broke of its destruction last September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RE4VZYUMSZE7XI7LMOBG7KLBKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732628532479},"content":"Yet each of the incidents is a local tragedy. In Shrewsbury Martin Wood, the seven foot tall town crier, brought tourists to the Scrooge grave. He was also the body double for the hooded ghost in the filming of the spooky scene in 1984, the same year he became town crier. 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We would like to thank the amazing NHS doctors and nurses who cared for him after his stroke in 2019 and the dedicated staff at the care home where he passed away after latterly living with Alzheimer’s.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SAKQP6LAVFE7RMTZW7CUW5H654","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638704},"content":"Former US vice-president Al Gore, who worked with Mr Prescott on the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement in 1997, said he had “never worked with anyone in politics – on my side of the pond or his – quite like John Prescott”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IQQIJRLXCBCYTAKFOSJTFGL3AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638707},"content":"“He possessed an inherent ability to connect with people about the issues that mattered to them – a talent that others spend years studying and cultivating, but that was second nature to him,” he said in a statement. “He fought like hell to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol and was an unwavering champion of climate action for decades to come. 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Over a parliamentary career spanning more than half a century, he served for 10 years as deputy prime minister after Labour’s 1997 general election landslide.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAT4NWMNHBDWBOMTNDYDHMZVUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638712},"content":"At times short-tempered, he once famously punched a protester who threw an egg at him during an election campaign visit to north Wales in 2001.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWHH5RJ4PIOKCDV3XVTWEX4DQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"YTLXO3FTB5CTTOBCK2HJBWQMVU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BXLB4S7ROBGILBCGMLOUAGOPAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732175236084},"content":"But during much of his time in office, he acted as a mediator in the often turbulent relationship between Mr Blair and chancellor Gordon Brown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDSKEZLNQBCVPEOUXMQKSIODHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638714},"content":"He was a loyal supporter of Mr Blair in office but was subsequently critical of parts of New Labour’s legacy, denouncing Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War. He also strongly defended Jeremy Corbyn during his time as party leader in the face of fierce criticism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BAFAK3KDWBAXBCRW2NLWQK2HDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638717},"content":"Born in Prestatyn in Wales on May 31st, 1938, the son of a railwayman, Mr Prescott left school at 15 to work as a trainee chef and then as a steward on the Cunard Line before entering politics.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTBRSLQVYJD2PF6ASQ6TJUV57Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638718},"content":"In a private letter in 2007, Mr Blair said his former deputy’s role “smoothing out problems, sorting out colleagues and troubleshooting” had been an “integral part of getting things done”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M65IB5XKLNEEVKZ3NHSZHM46HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732173638719},"content":"“The completely unique Prescott blend of charm and brutality – made always more effective by the unpredictability of which would be predominant – got you through the decade, kept the government together and above all, gave me a lot of fun. 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Thousands of farmers gathered in a convention centre for a rally against new <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/inheritance-tax/\" target=\"_blank\">inheritance tax</a> rules, introduced by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-kingdom/\" target=\"_blank\">UK</a> <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">government</a> in last month’s Westminster budget. Leading figures from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/northern-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland</a>’s six main political parties, including the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, spoke from the podium to offer their full support. Their obeisance to a small but potent sectoral interest makes it almost impossible to imagine Stormont confronting the challenges it faces with agriculture.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVJ3DHTOJ5GQ5PFFUGIDWEL7JY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629572},"content":"The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) organised the rally in co-ordinated action with its counterparts in Britain. Members attended a national protest in London the following day. They have a legitimate grievance: the new rules bring perhaps a quarter of farms back within inheritance tax, after three decades of being fully exempt. Bills for most would still be small and payable in 10 annual interest-free instalments, but farmers can be asset-rich and income poor. The tax can be avoided altogether by gifting a farm seven years before death or transferring it to a trust. However, unexpected deaths might compound family tragedy with break-up of the family farm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWJVHZV46BAERDAAKY4GXQEO5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629574},"content":"The UK government says its target is not farmers at all, but wealthy individuals who bought farmland to exploit the inheritance tax exemption. In that case, the tax-free allowance could be raised from its new maximum of £3 million to £5 million, for example, still targeting large landowners while taking almost every family farm out of the net.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45UIE3F2TRD43CYUYCUQ4AGN5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629575},"content":"Farmers in Northern Ireland have unique grounds for a higher allowance. Most own their land, unlike in England, where nearly half are tenants. The market value of farmland in the North is double the UK average.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQQKNOOJA5E2PDL6O262Y6WMY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629576},"content":"But the case for a reasonable adjustment has been drowned out by hysterical claims from farmers that their industry and way of life will be destroyed, along with the UK’s food security. None of this happened when the same tax was in place before 1992.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2ZSYRQPH5DA5MWAESOFOXWSAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629577},"content":"Some farmers have threatened to escalate protests to include blocking roads and withholding supplies from supermarkets. The prospect of convoys of agricultural vehicles bringing the UK to a standstill recalls the 2000 fuel protests by lorry drivers, a “yellow-vest” movement before the French coined the term. British governments remain haunted by this event; fuel duty has scarcely risen since. But farmers cannot count on the same degree of public sympathy. Although they may be seen as hardworking and vital producers, they are also regarded as well-off and given to special pleading. In addition, in Northern Ireland, they are increasingly considered a menace to the environment. The crisis in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/08/06/public-health-risks-of-foul-smelling-algal-blooms-on-lough-neagh-detailed-in-new-study/\" target=\"_blank\">Lough Neagh</a> has crystallised this perception, adding noticeable scepticism and impatience towards farmers’ concerns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYAMZVCXMZHCDPJCSIL4DDFSHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629580},"content":"Thanks to lobbying by the UFU and others, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/democratic-unionist-party/\" target=\"_blank\">DUP</a> has long vetoed the establishment of an independent environmental protection agency – Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK and Ireland to lack this standard protection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QAUVZZOQLZGWZJXZJGOLQW3OFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629581},"content":"In 2022, further lobbying by the UFU persuaded a DUP minister to cap fines for repeated pollution offences at 15 per cent of a farm’s subsidy, down from 100 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOZKM6G63ZHH7IDB7KFX5DYKLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629582},"content":"The power of the farming lobby surpasses mere elected politicians. During the collapse of Stormont in 2017, the UFU somehow managed to extract a memorandum from civil servants promising no unannounced farm inspections and a presumption against prosecution for pollution offences.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNLOVKMJ7BAHJDD2YLSH3YKEUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629583},"content":"Stormont combines the agriculture and environment portfolios in one poacher-and-gamekeeper department. Its latest minister, Alliance’s Andrew Muir, has been carefully building up legal and institutional capacity to tighten regulation. Yet he spoke at the Lisburn rally and could hardly have done otherwise. Even the canniest gamekeeper can be ensnared.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H26XKAMT2RFIRGYOPEMVD7US5U","additional_properties":{"_id":"QDOXKSCNIVFO3ELXMR46LOLYKY"},"content":"Andrew Muir: Out and proud Stormont Minister in charge of Northern Ireland’s farming","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3UA5GNFEWVAW3L6OPPM4JFI74E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629584},"content":"Brexit adds another complication to views on farming in Northern Ireland. Farmers are widely believed to have supported Brexit, casting doubt on their judgment; the UFU stayed neutral in the referendum to avoid contention among its members.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NIFOASE76JH7XIN3OKX5SKGTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629585},"content":"Many people are perplexed that farmers were hostile to the EU, as it provided 90 per cent of their income, but it makes sense in terms of the psychology of dependency. Farmers cannot be expected to feel gratitude for a life on benefits. They are more likely to feel demeaned, demoralised, resentful of a controlling bureaucracy, and to be painfully aware of the judgment of others. This could explain their exaggerated sense of anger and entitlement, and the conspiratorial thinking already surrounding the protests about how the government wants to destroy family farms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQMSALGWKNBP5KKKC6SG2HLMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629586},"content":"In last month’s budget it was separately revealed that farm subsidies will be fully devolved to Northern Ireland from next April. Stormont could replace the current flat-rate grant per hectare with a new regime that encourages partnership on the environment and reduces the culture of dependency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEEJJTQT7JFIRNBRJ63ZNPRLPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732096629587},"content":"But farmers would complain. 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The crisis finally began to ebb away on February 14th, 1979.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JYNARGI2PNGNPLCWYUC5OUR7SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593939},"content":"The day before, a young girl was born in south London to teacher parents. More than 45 years later, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rachel-reeves/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Reeves</a> would go on to become Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer when Labour, under <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/keir-starmer/\" target=\"_blank\">Keir Starmer</a>, vanquished the Tories in July.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FP43KPZNDZFZDOXS42VRYMNV2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593940},"content":"Now, having been born during the original, Reeves faces the prospect of a winter of discontent all of her own making. Anger from farmers over increased inheritance tax and from pensioners over cuts to winter fuel payments threatens to overshadow <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/10/30/rachel-reeves-increases-taxes-by-40bn-in-budget-to-address-black-hole-in-uks-public-finances/\" target=\"_blank\">her attempt to reset Britain’s fiscal future.</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VP7APNV3LNHBXGPNRMJT2G675Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593941},"content":"Whitehall, the administrative heart of London, is usually dominated by people in pinstriped suits. On Tuesday, it was the turn of wellington boots, flatcaps and Barbour wax jackets to be de rigueur clothing, as a protest of 10,000 farmers descended on parliament to complain about Reeves’s recent tax raid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGKCXN4MMRDH7NPC3SCYWNYNF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593942},"content":"In her budget last month, Reeves tweaked tax rules to target – in Labour’s eyes – wealthy landowners by introducing from 2026 a 20 per cent levy on the inheritance of farm assets worth more than £1 million (€1.2 million). The government has estimated that with existing loopholes and reliefs, most farms worth below £3 million will escape the new tax.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZI6BMSE55FG6PJ7XDE633T3SPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593943},"content":"Farmers, however, aren’t having it. Despite government estimates that barely 550 farms each year would be affected, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has argued up to 70,000 British farms could enter the dragnet. 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Sources from the left of the party were ebullient at the weekend as they insisted to The Irish Times that the protesting farmers would never vote for them anyway, and that this was a row the party needed to have.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TP7I7XAJ6NAM7EG7H4G6YBWMCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593947},"content":"Analysis of the numbers from July’s election, however, suggests that up to 60 per cent of Labour’s 100 most marginal seats are in rural or semi-rural areas, where the views of farmers would hold sway and are bound to influence the next election, expected to be in 2029.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2X5HIN6JRAVTCGH7WRRV5PCLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732126593948},"content":"“Labour thinks it can peel off the small farmers from the big boys. 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All of the items had their own stories and some were personal to those who had produced the exhibit: a suitcase sitting on top of the wardrobe had belonged to Kelly’s Kerry-born mother, who died in recent years at the age of 92.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBCS5EYWRNCBBH24LAISSRRZQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918790},"content":"The opening of the Irish room earlier this year attracted three times as many visitors as a normal exhibition debut. Local Irish groups have made “reminiscence visits” to critique the artefacts. Kelly, who had lobbied the museum since 2006 to open an Irish display, has held discussions with other museums in Ireland and Britain about how to use the ”room upstairs” as a template.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ODCNIQNAJCGLAASFLLVTB7OGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918791},"content":"Rooms Through Time includes exhibits derived from other immigrant and ethnic communities: a Jewish family in a 1913 tenement; the 1973 front room of a London family with roots in the Caribbean; a modern flat occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TT25CNSL2RERZGITHGWFVDKWV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918792},"content":"The messy complexities of life are captured by these snapshots of immigrant existence, but also in the row over the slave trader Geffrye’s statue outside the museum’s back door.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5SPGTXNY5GALF7KMVA2JTYH5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026918793},"content":"Abbott has said the statue remains “an affront to his victims and offensive to all of us who abhor slavery”. 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As well as slagging off his hair, he also called him “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and a “woman hating, neo-Nazi, sympathising sociopath”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MXE2FTLENNCH3NER5XC5VQJIAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731088462260},"content":"Confronted this week with the comments on Newscast, Lammy said they were “old news ... There are things I know now that I didn’t know back then.” He said Trump had never mentioned them when he attended a two-and-a-half hour dinner with Trump and Starmer in New York in September. Trump was a “gracious host”, he said, as exemplified by his offer of extra chicken.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PZ7EQEH6BEDXCWHLNF32HGHHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731088462261},"content":"“He is someone we can build a relationship with in our national interest because we must,” said Lammy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXQKTZXFC5BU5G5TTLI7A3X3SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731088462262},"content":"He may well have got away with the comments. 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She noted he had dinner with Starmer and Lammy two months ago in Florida, and asked if the foreign secretary apologised for his “derogatory and scatological comments”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F6BST2GSFBDLATS26V5JPKXCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730919186883},"content":"The prime minister brushed off the remarks but their pointed nature set the tone for the rest of their exchanges at PMQs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UO2TOMMQONF7BACYKBEMFA6M5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1730919186884},"content":"Badenoch was elected by Tory members to replace <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/rishi-sunak/\" target=\"_blank\">Rishi Sunak</a> partly on her promise to vigorously hold the prime minister to account, and her first outing was keenly anticipated in Westminster. 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Under intense pressure at the time from the other contenders over her offhand remarks about maternity pay, Badenoch came out fighting one night at a champagne party hosted by the powerful backbench 1922 Committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IFWFDPIIRFD73JKOS3WVT5G6AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910092},"content":"Badenoch bustled her way up to the microphone at the event and launched a facetious broadside at the centrist James Cleverly, who was then jockeying for position as her main contender.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BN6ABQSGOFGA7DKQXR5VH2OXZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910093},"content":"“James thinks he is the best,” Badenoch told the packed event. “Dream on, James. If you want change, vote for renewal, vote for Kemi.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6RWML7UOWZFEJOSXXOA7ZGY654","additional_properties":{"_id":1730739910094},"content":"Barely a week later, Cleverly was voted out of the contest in a shock decision by MPs. 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Instead, it suggested Britain is on course to hit second spot by 2029 and would average third over the period.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VPZAM4VNRZFMTD67TJODXGYYXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730309676624},"content":"Buried deep in the OBR’s latest 200-page economic and fiscal outlook is a table that suggests the outlook in the long run, from 2030 onwards, may be rosier for the British economy as Reeves’s investment finally starts to have an impact. By then it could be too late for Labour, politically, with a new election due in 2029 that it must win if it is to be in charge for the decade of renewal it promised.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RB3TY3Z2HFABJGC5RHVXZAIWBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730312550475},"content":"This must be why Labour pulled the closest it had to a rabbit from a hat: an ongoing freeze in income tax thresholds will now end in 2028-29, which should give a boost to Britons’ pay packets just in time for the next election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SSNEKINYZNGYDIWUBNU7SFUN7Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Cantillon"}},"name":"Richard Cantillon"}]},"description":{"basic":"Rachel Reeves's first budget as Britain’s chancellor was monumental in every way except for the one she wanted"},"display_date":"2024-10-31T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Big tax and spending hikes, but little growth from the UK budget","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"A32RSJ6YACP4HANBYJLVPJLCLY","auth":{"1":"f115e96232c464dbbdf1723185c2008340d10d6b226b40a6d7a2fc2d85698afb"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/A32RSJ6YACP4HANBYJLVPJLCLY.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Economy"},{"name":"World"},{"name":"UK"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/economy/2024/10/31/big-tax-and-spending-hikes-but-little-growth-from-the-uk-budget/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/economy","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Economy"}}}},{"_id":"BNIALJXB7RCWZMJJPA2TLOHQFE","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/economy/2024/10/30/norths-businesses-face-higher-costs-post-british-budget/","content_elements":[{"_id":"PLTYPSNAUVHZDFYXG64AMI2WEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730311360074},"content":"Businesses in the North face rising costs following Wednesday’s UK budget, experts and lobby groups warned as Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves ended her speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JASGUQ4JRVDC3PBDVVR4FPFPTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730311360075},"content":"The minister pledged to boost the minimum wage to £12.21 an hour from £11.44 and hike employer’s national insurance to 15 per cent from 13.8 per cent to aid the Labour government’s bid to raise living standards and plug a £22 billion hole in public finances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBIHQ2JREBBJ5AVQDWZXN36BQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730311360076},"content":"Both moves will increase employers’ wage bills in Northern Ireland, according to Lorraine Nelson, partner and head of tax with accountants BDO in Belfast. 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Branding the measures as unsustainable, he called for a VAT cut or the extension of business rates reliefs in England and Wales to Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4EQUPARMFHVJCDC3NZNM7LW5M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Northern Ireland will receive £18.2 billion in UK government funding for 2025-26 in what the treasury said was “the largest settlement since devolution began”. 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Meanwhile, culture secretary Lisa Nandy sang the Amy Winehouse number Valerie.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7E7ZRYATJZFNZODOYCFYXKQMME","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304066},"content":"With Starmer away, the next two most senior members of the government present at the party were deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves, the chancellor of the exchequer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPS7BWJWKRA4TJXCKJ5BCNLZNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304067},"content":"Neither of them sang. But if Reeves, who on Wednesday will deliver a tough <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-kingdom/\" target=\"_blank\">UK</a> budget in the House of Commons, had chosen to have a go, she might have tried a version of Abba’s famous ode to straitened finances, Money Money Money: <i>“</i>I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay/Ain’t it sad?/And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me/That’s too bad.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RVIYCIEBFFQZGD54WCRBEICL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304068},"content":"While Reeves didn’t pick up the microphone at the Mirror party, she did, according to people there, sing the praises of the Republic’s fiscal duo, Minister for Finance <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jack-chambers/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Chambers</a> and Minister for Public Expenditure <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/author/paschal-donohoe/\" target=\"_blank\">Paschal Donohoe</a>. Reeves was overheard telling an Irish official at the party that she was delighted she had met “Jack and Paschal” earlier that month. Donohoe and Chambers had been on separate trips to London at the beginning of September. Both called in on Reeves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3IW43RDENHNDDJBQ2YIF6FOV4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304069},"content":"Reeves had a £22 billion (about €26 billion) unfunded “black hole” to fill in Britain’s finances as soon as she started the job in July after Labour’s election win. In her budget on Wednesday, she faces a much tougher task: how to spur immediate economic growth while also funding Britain’s creaking public services and sticking to Labour’s much-vaunted election promise not to raise taxes on workers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MG6RYCK4BB5HHPC7BSRHLRKHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304070},"content":"Reeves has got to achieve all of this while keeping the public finances under control and loosening fiscal rules to allow more borrowing. Arguably she faces the toughest economic conditions of any new chancellor since the second World War.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5AGQPEHGBBFGFJP7VHPCK2QK3M","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304071},"content":"Many Labour insiders acknowledge that she certainly has a tougher task than Gordon Brown. When he took over as chancellor in 1997 following Labour’s landslide election victory under Tony Blair, the British economy was already growing at almost 5 per cent annually.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO4BYOQPQ5C53C2V7IDZPL5GAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304072},"content":"Even Alistair Darling, Labour’s chancellor during the financial crash of 2008, had an easier job than Reeves. Darling had basically no choice but to save Britain’s banks, as other nations in Europe and also the US were already bailing out their banks at the time, and so his central policy was in effect decided for him. Reeves must weigh myriad policy options, few attractive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMYCM5OVANHSDNXCTZIC25EFVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304073},"content":"What sort of a woman and politician is Reeves? Does she have the steel required to make tough decisions? The financial kingpins of the City of London appear to believe she does. Reeves courted them assiduously before the election.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWDMBNZZ6ZCYNPOPWPZQ3AJNMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304074},"content":"Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader and now a member of the House of Lords, distributed a Substack newsletter this week with a well-observed profile of “the Rachel Reeves I know”. Watson has been an acquaintance of hers since she was a teenage activist in the party.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QRFU4WSFVFGHLGGPUI7IBVROKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304075},"content":"He said she “rarely shows much of her personality in public beyond her passion for ideas”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HHLKRSYJRA2NCLYBCWJAHZCQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304076},"content":"“In private, she is warm and friendly with a sharp sense of fun, though she’s always on guard,” Watson wrote. “She handles internal divides cautiously rather than through open confrontation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7CQUFJTLAFHWLL6WA4SVXGKTN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730212304077},"content":"Watson concludes she is “more emotionally intelligent than her predecessors”. 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He had spent many hours buried beside a dead girl, her head on his shoulder. “As time went on, her face became puffy and her eyes became sunken into her head,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JI6SAN4DVNCM7OZSH3NS67QR4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943810},"content":"The disaster changed local children forever. “A whole generation of young people were wiped out. There was no one left to play with,” Edwards said. He later suffered from depression and anxiety, but said talking about it helped him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Q5ZOOPE3VCGXGJ4NMELTNCODM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5MA5ZEY37RBRXLWRTK5UITIXXM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DDSVCTUPORE6TFLPLZBNRHAYNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729431943811},"content":"Capel Aberfan, a chapel that doubled as a temporary morgue for the disaster, last week lay derelict in the village; it burnt down in 2015. “Lord save us: we perish,” was written on the wall. 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She and Morgan had been texting, the first minister said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KKWOHQ6CBBCXREZ3G7X75A22WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085258},"content":"“We are organising a time for her to come and visit Wales. I’m really pleased that she has got this role, and pleased that the UK government realises it is one of the most centralised countries in the world and that if you want to drive the economy, you need to devolve powers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LJEB3SSIHRDZREW7VAQO72FIWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729089085259},"content":"In the meantime, Morgan’s critics will be waiting for her. 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Outlets such as the Cairo Cafe, Singapore Cafe and Ebony Cafe abounded on Bute Street and Loudoun Square off the main drag.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XQ3BSYMXVGM5DUWRRYE7YYK4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329892},"content":"Interracial mingling of the sexes was tolerated in Tiger Bay, including later unions between local white women and black American GIs stationed nearby during the second World War. The area was no ethnic utopia. Its residents experienced discrimination and other denizens of Cardiff had disparaging nicknames for it. But it wasn’t a race-fuelled tinderbox, either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UQWPDO2X3BDQZPAR67RXLMG7IA","additional_properties":{"_id":"OK3CIRSQJVAZJCTSTTRBXOFKEE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MQMICHOFS5HWPHKI2RPRPQJIRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329893},"content":"Tiger Bay’s demise as a distinct enclave began in the 1960s, when the local authorities started clearing slums. Much of the heartland of Tiger Bay to the west of Bute Street was rebuilt as generic council estates. In the 1980s and 1990s, a plan was hatched to flood the southern end of Tiger Bay in an enclosed harbour, around which modern entertainment and hospitality outlets were built. This area, also home to the Welsh parliament, the Senedd, is now known as Cardiff Bay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6KAKVVHO6FFGBFIXIKFOI7G6MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329894},"content":"Echoes of Tiger Bay still exist on Bute Street, which has several Yemeni and Somali shops and cafes. The Butetown area to the west of the street is still the most diverse part of Cardiff; census figures show that more than a third of its residents are of various ethnicities other than British white. Overall, roughly 10 per cent of Cardiff’s population are Muslims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOMSMBN2DJCFHMO6W6Q222VHNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329895},"content":"James Street runs along the southern end of Butetown near the bright lights of Cardiff Bay. In 2021, local art group Unify, founded by Yusuf Ismail and Shawqi Hasson, painted a huge mural on the gable end of a nearby building. Under the banner My City, My Shirt, it showed a black immigrant woman, Maimuna Indjai, wearing a blue Cardiff City football jersey, an African headdress and an enigmatic smile. It quickly became known locally as “Cardiff’s Mona Lisa”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ESYK64RHZNDKHFZMFDRYIS4FTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"HZ3YUUH4V5D35KTID5RUCSJTNA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AFORXZ5N4NFMNOWUEVP7TTBCM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329896},"content":"Set against a red background, the startling image was embellished by the sight of Indjai cradling her heavily-pregnant belly. Predictably, there was a local outcry in 2022 when it was painted over for a McDonald’s advertisement. Unify secured another gable end further along James Street, and the piece was repainted there, where it remains today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IY73HCKDWBABPNQLVZTT2JBMQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728986329897},"content":"For the Euros tournament held in 2021, Unify painted another football-themed mural on Quay Street that soon earned widespread acclaim. It showed a mixed-race women with an Afro haircut in a Wales jersey under the banner My Cymru, My Shirt. It was meant to evoke the image and hairstyle of George Berry, born to a Jamaican father, who made his debut for Wales in 1979, six months after Viv Anderson became the first black man to play for England. It, too, was painted over last year. 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He took solace in the fact that, even if Parnell didn’t achieve his goal, most of Ireland eventually got independence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOQMYQAN7REV3CLTU2CNBUEQHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053635},"content":"“When Parnell fell upon difficult times, the cause of independence didn’t fall with him,” he said. “The cause of [Scottish] independence is impossible to reverse. It’s as near an inevitability as you’ll get in politics. It’ll find its means and mechanism at some point. It’s just the timescale that’s up for grabs.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KF6RXU4ISJGTJK33AOHCOPFTJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053636},"content":"Salmond was an economist by training but a politician by gut, and a formidable orator.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKYGZ3HHKRDQRPT7P7VZ4JAEVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053637},"content":"Born in West Lothian, he worked at first as an economist in the civil service on Scottish agricultural matters in London, where he met his wife Moira, and later as an oil economist for Royal Bank of Scotland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIWSLGYFEVDYXFLLLGMQZ3P324","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053638},"content":"A former Westminster MP and member of Scotland’s devolved parliament, he joined the SNP and established himself as one of the dominant voices of Scottish politics, serving as first minister for seven years from 2007. He led the SNP between 1990 and 2000, and again from 2004 until the aftermath of Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, the holding of which he had negotiated with former UK prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/david-cameron/\" target=\"_blank\">David Cameron</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6YDG4VXPHNB5ZMJKZ45JY3DFJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053639},"content":"“Cameron was an impressive prime minister,” Salmond told The Irish Times in his final <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2023/06/09/lunch-with-alex-salmond-fishing-for-votes-amid-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-scottish-independence/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with this newspaper</a>. “He was no Einstein, but he looked like a prime minister. He had an insouciance, although that was also one of his weaknesses. He assumption was that there was no chance whatsoever of Scotland becoming independent.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DG6DVPPYZHH5NDNTDMVOQOUJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053640},"content":"Salmond recalled the day in 2014 that he struck the referendum deal with Cameron and they announced it in Edinburgh. He said he set it up to look like “the signing of an international treaty”. For the benefit of the cameras, he said, he installed a map of Scotland directly behind Cameron marked with all of the SNP’s political seats.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LWX4UEXWVZBIFPCKAFNGU2236U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053641},"content":"“It is part of the art of politics to make your combatant feel less secure,” he said. “Politics is a science but it is also an art, and you have to have the ability to paint the weather. It you want sunshine, you must paint the sun.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2QYEXWH4VBMDDGOI3PJ5VPPAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053642},"content":"Although briefly in front at one stage in the 2014 campaign, the nationalists lost the independence vote by 45 per cent to 55 per cent and Salmond handed over the reins of the SNP to his deputy, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/nicola-sturgeon/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicola Sturgeon</a>. The referendum, although a defeat on paper, would prove to be perhaps the high watermark of Salmond’s political career for putting Scottish independence firmly on the UK’s agenda.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R535JZEWMVCFRASTHGK2YYFFUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053643},"content":"Salmond later had a spectacular falling-out with Sturgeon over allegations made against him of inappropriate behaviour with women, which he denied. An inquiry later found Salmond had been treated unfairly in a party investigation and in 2020 he was also found not guilty in a criminal court of a range of sexual offences, which he had claimed were a political set-up. He later left the SNP and founded the Alba party as a rival nationalist outfit, although it gained little electoral traction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BOGVELZ7R5C7PLSCYK36P5XMYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053644},"content":"Angus Brendan MacNeil, a former SNP MP based in the Outer Hebrides whose mother was from Waterford, said Salmond died still a “colossus” of Scottish politics. MacNeil, who quit the SNP in 2023, was politically close to Salmond although he didn’t join him at Alba. They remained in close contact right until Salmond’s death, exchanging WhatsApp messages and talking on the phone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIRCGH4KAJFLRG5Y76SEZ24F2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053645},"content":"“Somebody sent me a text on Saturday to say he had died,” said MacNeil. “You just don’t believe that kind of thing when you read it. I am in complete shock. It was a gut punch.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CME7LGUNTREZNOHFYOCJSI622A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053646},"content":"MacNeil recalled the first time as a young political activist that he met Salmond, at an SNP conference in the 1990s. He said there was a bomb scare and he was sent to pass a note about it to someone near the stage, who then passed it on to Salmond, who was in the middle of a speech.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OXSI5WS2KFHEJBZNZTO2S5BI2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053647},"content":"“He just put it to one side and continued with his speech,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNUZWHCI5FDGPGH3UITVHOB4YU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053648},"content":"MacNeil said Salmond “liked people; he could also like people he disagreed with and he didn’t have much rancour with them”. In much of the unionist UK media in London, however, Salmond was often portrayed as a demagogue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZK46OK3JYZABPDSV43TFDH2NMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728811053649},"content":"“His flaws were greatly exaggerated and the truth of all of that will come out eventually,” said MacNeil. “He was a political colossus who just about changed Scotland’s future. 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