Most immigrants contribute to society, most want to become good British citizens and most strike me as more like us with every rainy day that passes.
As talks resumed at Stormont to revive the assembly, under the chairmanship of the Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, and junior Irish foreign minister Tom Kitt, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness urged the hardline DUP to strike a deal as quickly as possible.
But the ComRes study – of 1,000 people across the 40 seats currently held by Labour – shows that voters are evenly split on whether the SNP should strike a deal at Westminster, with SNP voters far more uncertain about the case for a deal than the party's leadership.
You get annoyed about things in real life and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.
Despite government claims that it had reached a deal with junior doctors, Dr Jeredine George, the president of the Junior Doctors Associationn, told Reuters that its members would strike for a fourth day on Thursday.
Nurses went on strike in 1974 and the first major national dispute was the ancillary workers' strike in 1972.
"Those words strike despair in people who have worked so hard for this.
The EU is reviving efforts to strike a deal with Ukraine that could involve billions of euros in economic perks.
There is a balance to strike here, or is it a contradiction?
Mitt Romney brushed aside failure of the supreme court ruling to strike down the Affordable Care Act and vowed to put the repeal of "Obamacare" at the centre of his presidential campaign.
Furious Labour officials insisted that Miliband had repeatedly said he would not strike any deal with the SNP on Trident and has committed his party irrevocably to a continuous at-sea deterrent involving four submarines, if that is the view of the Royal Navy.
