Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people.
Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority.
Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.
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‼️ Ukrainian forces hit Russian convoy of about 50 fuel and ammunition lorries near Armiansk in Crimea
As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant.
I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024.
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Happy World Saltmarsh Day! 🎉
Saltmarshes lock away carbon at around ten times the rate of tropical forests, storing it deep in waterlogged soils where it can remain for hundreds or even thousands of years. More carbon, gram for gram, than a rainforest.