Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to:
-endorse burqa bans
-call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence"
-identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors"
to justify themselves
![He has adopted a hard line on border policy in a faltering effort to win back AfD supporters, and acknowledged Germany still had “problems in the area of migration”.
“We still have many people in Germany who should not have permanent residency. This is consensus in the [ruling] coalition, that we need to deport more people,” he said on Wednesday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreibimwctntj67hhhniji6jlidnyezjujxab5mmt3ltpqq7e2d3muja)
![If those working in Germany have to leave the country again because you are championing ‘remigration’,” Merz said, “then the skilled trades in Germany will no longer be able to function: not a single care home will remain open, not a single hospital in Germany will remain operational, and not a single restaurant in Germany will be able to stay in business.”
He said the AfD’s rhetoric, which propelled it to the strongest showing for a far-right party in a German state since the Nazi period, “is precisely what is dividing our society so deeply”.
Support for Merz, a conservative Christian Democrat, has plummeted in the 16 months since he took office at the helm of a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats, amid disappointment over slow progress on economic growth and the cost of living.
He has adopted a hard line on border policy in a faltering bid to win back AfD supporters, and acknowledged Germany still had “problems in the area of migration”.
“We still have many people in Germany who should not have permanent residency. This is consensus in the [ruling] coalition, that we need to deport more people,” he said on Wednesday.
“But we make a careful distinction between those who work in Germany, who contribute to our prosperity, and who are welcome here, and those who do not have permanent residency in Germany and who must leave our country. Unlike you [the AfD], we take great care to make this distinction.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreiabsez3qaszfd5tjlmdn53bdx47js2n63ld54iriqc2geazdcs7pm)
![Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. [highlighted] But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. [end highlight] Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreida5tzchlq55g3d6xrscyzggmq5elgy3t46k2t765qfbmydhdn7q4)
![Background edit
He is the son of John Caddick-Adams and Joy Mary Caddick-Adams (née Martin), and grandson of Major Charles Caddick-Adams, JP, all of Brampton Lodge, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire. [1] The house was in possession of the family for 110 years before being sold in 2008. His grandfather and great-uncle, Captain Thomas Geoffrey Caddick-Adams, were both awarded the Military Cross during World War 1 serving with the North Staffordshire Regiment. [2] His maternal grandfather was Clifford Arthur Martin, fourth Bishop of Liverpool and Chaplain to King George VI. His cousin is Vice Admiral Paul Bennett.
Military Career edit
He was born in Chelsea, and educated between 1974-78 at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire. He then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where studied under Professor Richard Holmes, later his director and mentor at Cranfield University. He was commissioned into The Staffordshire Regiment, a regular regiment of the British Army, in 1979. This was a regiment in which several family members had served. He joined The Queen’s Own Mercian Yeomanry (amalgamated in 1992 into The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry), a cavalry unit of the British Territorial Army, in 1985, [3] was promoted Captain in 1994 [4] and Major in 2000. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1998. [5] A fellow officer was the MP, Sir Desmond Swayne.
In 1996-7, Caddick-Adams was mobilised as an army reservist and served as the official NATO and SHAPE Historian in Bosnia with the IFOR and SFOR peace keeping missions, based in Sarajevo. He was attached to the staff of the US Commander, General William W. Crouch. He wrote about some of his experiences in 1998. [6] One of his entertaining letters home, written from Sarajevo in 1996, appeared in Behind the Lines (2005) by Andrew Carroll. [7]
In 2003, Caddick-Adams served in Operation TELIC, during the Iraq War, as the official UK Historian, based at CENTCOM in Qatar and later in Basra, wh…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreigkkqsmq6dvpkkr32wxmpwscax3sikbxsumqwb6bofrfsxvys3xai)
![Pullin up on my opps with the unknown device
Quoted post: Armenian militia with an unknown device. Armenian SSR, January 1990.
[picture of two guys holding things that look like small rocket launchers crossed with ray guns]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreigg3ilgve4qaq5ubqaygobmdxay4wexkpbthw66rtbye6v5cwjace)
![BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria, July 22 (Reuters) - The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins a new life as a police station on Wednesday, [highlighted] a conversion Austria's government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreihgbkzbuzdyrvvgcq6la3fpbzklv5zjcw23kxw2qknkppciufzdcq)
