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The more I hear the border poll lobby talk about the need for a border poll, the more I’m persuaded it will probably take much longer to call than...
What is now the Republic of Ireland will become different – quite different – if it includes what was Northern Ireland. And it will become...
Fifty years ago today, loyalists in the Assembly opposed to the Sunningdale Agreement formed themselves into the United Ulster Unionist Assembly...
The DUP had begun to hope that the deal to restore the assembly a few weeks ago had bedded in well enough to secure it from serious...
There is, usually, a game plan for a political crisis. But there wasn’t one for the crisis which engulfed the DUP in the early hours of Good Friday,...
As soon as Leo Varadkar announced his resignation, the debate immediately shifted to what he would do next. He’s only 45, after all, which is,...
I fully understand Jim Allister’s concerns about the NI Protocol and Windsor Framework. Indeed, I share some of those concerns. And while I accept...
Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley got on perfectly well for a year. So well, in fact, that the DUP toppled him and replaced him with Peter Robinson....
When Alliance was founded in April 1970 it was an unambiguously pro-union party. Not a unionist party as such, even though most of its original...
The result, said Brian Faulkner, “represents the fears of the unionists of Northern Ireland: fears about the unknown and the unknown expressed in...
Annex B of the command paper (Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Place In The Union) begins with an unambiguous statement: “The government is...
Flatpack assembly can be a bit of a nightmare. No matter how good you think you are at it, it is often the case that when you’re “finished”,...
One man has difficulty remembering names and events. The other tends to make up names and events. One is 81. The other is 77. Neither of them, albeit...
I wonder, Brian, if there is a sweet spot in the middle at which all of the parties could meet and agree to govern in common cause? It seems a fair...
Last Monday was – so far – the most important day in Jeffrey Donaldson’s political career. I don’t think there was ever much doubt that he...
“What do the rules say?” That was my reply to an anti-deal loyalist I was speaking to on Wednesday morning, when he asked me if I was bothered by...
I’ve seen far too many “breakthroughs” come and go in Northern Ireland to abandon my usual pessimism just yet. Just because we seem to have a...
My immediate reaction, on hearing that Chris Heaton-Harris had chosen February 8 as his latest deadline (I wonder how many minutes have passed since...
On the basis that it’s never a wise move to disturb your electoral opponents while they’re making life easy for you and difficult for themselves,...
This time 50 years ago the United Kingdom was preparing for a general election, called by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath on the issue of...
Almost fifty years ago to the day, Monday January 7, 1974, Brian Faulkner resigned as leader of the UUP. It followed a meeting of the Ulster Unionist...
Brian, it wasn’t just Ian Paisley — always in an “Ulster says snow” frame of mind back in the day — who was angered by Lemass’s visit....
On April 10th, 1998, just hours before the Ulster Unionist Party endorsed the Belfast Agreement, Jeffrey Donaldson left the party’s negotiating...
At the beginning of 2023 I made a resolution. Rather than my usual relentless negativity about political progress, I would look for even the smallest...
Christmas, even for atheists, is a time for reflection. So, let me tell you something about my friend Alan, who died a few weeks ago. Apart from my...
It’s almost Christmas in Northern Ireland, which means that the ghosts of politics past, present and future have been bumping into each other at...
FIFTY years ago – almost to the day – the Sunningdale Agreement was published.
FIFTY years ago – almost to the day – the Sunningdale Agreement was published.
DUP and Sinn Féin leaders and representatives, along with the bulk of their party members and voters, are very keen to blame the ‘other...
DUP and Sinn Féin leaders and representatives, along with the bulk of their party members and voters, are very keen to blame the ‘other...
THE fevered pace of events right now means that in the gap between writing this, on Wednesday afternoon, and it being published, on Friday morning,...
THE fevered pace of events right now means that in the gap between writing this, on Wednesday afternoon, and it being published, on Friday morning,...
IN a column on November 3, I mentioned the academic Dr Aaron Edwards, describing him as one of the sharpest observers of loyalist paramilitarism.
IN a column on November 3, I mentioned the academic Dr Aaron Edwards, describing him as one of the sharpest observers of loyalist paramilitarism.
IT has become fashionable in some unionist and loyalist circles to talk up the need to reboot direct rule.
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There is, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, nothing so instructive as the unexpectedly significant. So, when DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson wrote in the...
Giving evidence to the NI Affairs Committee on October 18, Dr Aaron Edwards (one of the sharpest observers of loyalist paramilitarism) made two...
Giving evidence to the NI Affairs Committee on October 18, Dr Aaron Edwards (one of the sharpest observers of loyalist paramilitarism) made two...
A hardening of the land border between NI and the Republic (which had also become the land border between the EU and UK in June 2016) might, as Leo...
A hardening of the land border between NI and the Republic (which had also become the land border between the EU and UK in June 2016) might, as Leo...
Time hasn’t been kind to political/electoral unionism. In the election to the first powersharing Assembly in June 1973, the unionist vote accounted...
Have a think about these two comments.
Have a think about these two comments.
"The Belfast Agreement created institutions which were unstable.
"The Belfast Agreement created institutions which were unstable.
Is there something in the Manchester air? For three days delegates at the Conservative conference roared their approval for Liz Truss (the greatest,...
Is there something in the Manchester air? For three days delegates at the Conservative conference roared their approval for Liz Truss (the greatest,...
Brian – yes, I can hear your exasperated sigh from the other page – knows my fondness for Sherlock Holmes.
Brian – yes, I can hear your exasperated sigh from the other page – knows my fondness for Sherlock Holmes.
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