There’s little enough enough to meaningfully separate how Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer with the knighthood and the Oxford law degree and the London townhouse, and Brian Nelson, the loyalist and arms importer and British state agent from the Shankill Road, view terror and its use.
One of Ireland’s state representatives in Egypt plays a crucial role in transporting goods in and out of Israel during its onslaught on Gaza.
Fine Gael senator Paraic Brady hasn’t declared a house he built in Longford – and the council he used to serve on won’t release records showing what he told planning authorities about his property holdings when he built it.
Fianna Fáil appointed a newly elected TD to the Oireachtas artificial intelligence committee – even though he holds stock worth thousands in an AI company co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
A Spanish company has shipped 1,207 tonnes of steel to Israeli weapons maker IMI Systems since August 2024 – despite recent calls by the Spanish foreign minister for an arms embargo against Israel.