hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian o connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguesejournalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you back with us. jeffrey, let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on f
Because it feels like this man is going to be given. thisjob, and he sjust too frail and not magnetic enough to carry it. - and i think that s what we saw. brian, what did you make of it? yes, it was. but to be perfectly honest, i go with whatjeffrey s saying, and that is that the opening lines of that speech were, her majesty s government will take measures to ease the cost of living crisis. not a single jot or tittle of any of that was reflected in that in that speech at all. nothing. although apparently we re told that cutting lots of civil service jobs will help the cost of living crisis. that s what the government announced on friday. 90,000. yeah. it won t help them. i mean, i listened to jacob rees mogg this morning and i was none the wiser, really, about how this is going to work. i think, just last thought on this,