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An LGBT activist has lost a case surrounding a Christian baker’s refusal to make a ‘gay marriage’ cake after it was thrown out of the European Court of Human Rights.

The skies over Belfast, Ireland turned black on Tuesday afternoon as a large fire has engulfed an area near the city’s docks.

New post-Christmas restrictions aiming to curb the spread of COVID-19 came into force in three out of four of Britain’s Home Nations on Boxing Day.

The DUP are to push for the British government to deploy the Brexit ‘nuclear option’ over issues surrounding the Northern Ireland Protocol.

New Year’s Eve is in jeopardy across the UK, as the government reportedly considers forcing England into a two-week ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown. New Year’s Eve celebrations are in jeopardy in the United Kingdom, with the government reportedly looking at imposing

Boris Johnson has put Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Secretary Liz Truss, a former Liberal Democrat and Remain voter, in charge of Britain’s relationship with the European Union following the resignation of Lord Frost.

British negotiators have dropped a red line Brexit demand, allowing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to have the final say on some matters in Northern Ireland.

The government of Ireland has announced an amnesty scheme that will allow thousands of illegal migrants to stay in the country permanently.

England is to be left as the last remaining nation in the United Kingdom without the use of domestic covid passports, with Northern Ireland voting to implement the measures by the end of this month.

Van Morrison is being sued for libel by Northern Ireland’s Health Minister after the singer called him “dangerous” for his lockdown policies.

LONDON (AP) – A bus has been hijacked and set on fire in Northern Ireland, amid discontent over the trade deal struck as part of the UK’s departure from the European Union.

Masked men believed to be Ulster loyalists boarded and set fire to a public bus over Northern Ireland’s sellout to the European Union, leaving the driver shaken.

The British government has proposed an “entirely new” arrangement for trade with the EU on Northern Ireland, admitting that the agreement reached by the Tory government is “not working”.

LONDON (AP) – Ireland’s foreign minister has warned that British demands risk a “further breakdown in relations” with the European Union ahead of talks this week aimed at resolving the impasse over the Brexit agreement. Simon Coveney posted the remarks

Britain´s Brexit minister threatened Monday to trigger a contentious break clause in the U.K.´s divorce deal with the European Union.

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was booed as a “war criminal” in Northern Ireland ahead of her inauguration as the first woman Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.

LONDON (AP) – The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party heightened post-Brexit political tensions on Thursday, saying the UK’s divorce deal with the European Union could collapse the Belfast government and trigger a new era of violence and instability.

One of the chief architects of the Good Friday peace deal between British unionists and Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland has written to U.S. President Biden warning him that his interference in the Province’s internal politics risks “causing civil unrest”.

Britain’s Minister for EU Relations has admitted Boris Johnson’s government is happy to let European Union law continue to apply in Northern Ireland for some purposes and keep an internal border between the British province and the rest of the United Kingdom for the EU’s sake.

TOKYO (AP) – Aidan Walsh has been forced out of his semifinal bout at the Tokyo Olympics after the Irish welterweight injured his ankle while celebrating his quarterfinal victory.

The EU Commission agreed to a “standstill” on legal action against the UK over alleged breaches of the Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol.

The European Union is trying to put Spain in charge of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar’s borders in a Brexit side deal, which would include powers over issuing visas to British nationals.

Lord Frost, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator and current head of Task Force Europe, has admitted that the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU deal is damaging businesses, consumers, and community relations in Ulster.

A division within the left-wing Labour Party has seen far-left MPs come out against a United Kingdom, with Diane Abbott saying the party is in favour of Northern Ireland breaking with Great Britain and joining the Republic of Ireland.

The Conservative government has been lampooned for backing a cringe communist-style ‘One Nation Britain’ anthem for school children to sing.

French president Emmanuel Macron reportedly mistakenly informed Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Northern Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom at a G7 meeting.

Joe Biden has issued a formal reprimand to Boris Johnson for not rolling over to the European Union of whether or not it should continue to dictate what happens in the British province of Northern Ireland despite Brexit. 

LONDON (AP) – The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the bloc is ready to act “firmly and resolutely” if the U.K. fails to honor its commitments under the divorce deal that was supposed to keep trade flowing after Britain

Joe Biden has announced that he will meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in person prior to the meeting of the G7 nations this week.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Brexit minister predicted Monday that relations between the UK and the European Union would continue to be “bumpy” amid tensions over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

“You can be anything in Britain except a Christian,” Democratic Unionist Party politician Ian Paisley Jr told Faisal Islam of the BBC.

As a party which would be naturally supportive of the Conservative Party, we welcomed David Cameron’s electoral success and the emergence of a Conservative government in 2010, writes Sammy Wilson MP…

A lorry driver who purchased a stun gun and pepper spray for self-defence after being attacked by illegal migrants has been imprisoned.

Britain’s first Veterans Minister, now sacked, has denounced Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office a “cesspit” of “snakes” and “cowards”.

Britain’s inaugural Minister for Veterans has accused “cowards” in the Boris Johnson administration of stabbing Northern Ireland veterans in the back after he was ejected from the government.

A bomb was discovered under a female police officer’s car in County Derry, in Northern Ireland on Tuesday amid increasing tensions.