ON November 14 we finally had news that Belfast Trust will take forward plans for a Northern Ireland Mother and Baby Unit (MBU).

I HAD to check if it was April Fools’ Day when I read Rev Paul Burns’s letter – ‘When will scales of justice become evenly balanced for Israel? (Nov 16) – complaining about media coverage of Israel’s current war against the people of Gaza.

GOING by the reaction of our political and media class, you’d think Suella Braverman had announced Operation Banner 2.0.

IN relation to groups protesting about foreigners, be they asylum seekers, refugees or chancers seeking a better life for themselves, you can’t help noticing the flying of Tricolours alongside chants of ‘Ireland for the Irish’ and Ireland is full.

“THANK God we are surrounded by water” is a little Irish ditty by Dominic Behan.

EVER since I was a child passing the courts in Belfast you could always see the woman with the scales symbolising fairness of justice.

ANDREW Shaw – “Accusing Israel of being apartheid a common slur” (November 6) – in reply to my letter “Israel consistently ignoring UN’s countless resolutions’ (November 2), seems to suggest that because Israel is the only democratic state in the region, it has the right to defy international and humanitarian laws.

IT’S been a month since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel which saw 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals brutally killed, thousands injured and more than 200 people, including women and children, forcibly taken into Gaza.

BORIS Johnson’s bungled handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is well known.

THE Independent Review of Education was set up as part of the New Decade, New Approach deal and from the outset promised ‘not to shirk the big issues’.

TRADE unions have challenged the Secretary of State, Chris Heaton-Harris, about the failure to provide public sector pay increases this year.

THE recent revelations in your newspaper that Jamie Bryson was paid for appearing on The Nolan Show should come as a surprise to no one.

THE decades of brutal, illegal occupation of Palestinian territories by Israeli occupational forces are designed by the apartheid government of Israel to subjugate the freedom and lives of Christians, Muslins and others of the Palestinian nation without interruption and on a scale not witnessed since the Second World War.