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When Chris Bryant was first asked about a border poll – he had barely unpacked his suitcase – his response was suitably vague. So vague, in fact,...
AT Westminster, it has long been the convention that if a government fails to pass a budget, it has lost its mandate to govern and should resign. Were...
“I’m away home; I’d rather die,” roared the woman to the entire accident & emergency department of the Royal Victoria Hospital. It was...
Andy Burnham turned up in Belfast last week. Better if he hadn’t, to be honest. He was like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in overdrive. The mess he...
THE Westminster parliament resumes on September 1 and a leisurely week later, on September 7, Stormont resumes business as usual – bickering and...
If Michael Cusack were alive today, he would probably not be allowed into Croke Park. Although he was the first to come up with the idea of a Gaelic...
How many voters will thank unionist parties for stirring the Drumcree dispute back up again? The DUP and the TUV must think it is a decisive number,...
I recently fell down an archive rabbit hole and ended up watching a 1974 BBC report on Belfast’s black taxis. It was a dispatch from another age:...
Belfast in the spring of 1990 was no stranger to marches, rallies and disorder. Amid the ongoing Troubles, protest was an established feature of the...
For years, Culture Night was one of the highlights of Belfast’s calendar. I remember going as a teenager and experiencing a totally different vibe...
Gordon Brown says a united Ireland is inevitable in the long term. Andy Burnham insists a border poll is “off the table”. Leo Varadkar, more...
THE core principle for all parades – whether unionist or republican – is that they shouldn’t occur in areas where local residents oppose them....
I need to preface what I’m about to say with a disclaimer: Power-sharing is a necessary, vital part of the peace process. It reassured the...
A FEW weeks ago I found myself in a little park in east London eating chips with Kevin Rowland. For a very pleasant and surprising hour or so we...
IN the just-released The Rest is History podcast series on the outbreak of the Troubles, Tom Holland claimed that “every geographical expression in...
The High Court’s decision to quash a Parades Commission determination over the proposed Drumcree Church parade should be treated for what it is: a...
THREE years ago, France ran out of mustard. Due to severe drought in Canada where mustard seeds are grown, and alternative supply chains cut off by...
SOME politicians and journalists have portrayed the row over the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine as an argument over who should decide where health...
CHRIS Bryant became the 26th person to serve as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he took up residence in Hillsborough Castle last month,...
ALL strands of political unionism are united in endeavouring to set our society back a generation if needs be in order to secure an Orange parade on...
THE way things stand right now, who would be surprised if next May’s Assembly election was held against the background of both the DUP and Sinn...
ON being appointed the north’s new health minister, Robbie Butler said he wanted this place “to have a world-class health service that people can...
August 26 1926 A special correspondent of the London “Times” has been touring the Irish Free State in search of facts relating to present-day...
FOR all the grief we give them, when I’m feeling generous, I don’t think the Brits are that bad. Person to person, I’ve had a great deal of...
ONE of the oddest by-products of Andy Burnham’s very British coup this summer is the way the post of prime minister has been revealed to be little...
IT is a compelling, if depressing, image. Anne Tanney puts her arms around a terrified school pupil, doing her best to allay their concerns about...
The famous quotation that a week is a long time in politics is usually attributed to Harold Wilson, even though the former UK prime minister was...
‘GREATER love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.’ This witticism, uttered by former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe...
CONSIDERABLE attention is rightly being paid to the deterioration of high streets across Ireland and the UK, with notable recent interventions from...
Job hunting has a peculiar ability to make even the most capable person feel completely unemployable. After finishing my master’s degree, I spent...
I recall a poem from my school days where the opening lines were: “To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower.” ...
THE EU that Britain is trying to get closer to is no longer the EU Britain left in 2016. It’s concerned with its eastern borders, whether or not to...
Bad news for the two swans which became trapped in algae on Lough Neagh this week. The algae will be there for as long as Stormont exists, because it...
There are two stories behind the resignation of UUP health minister Mike Nesbitt: the decades-old one about Stormont parties backing health reforms in...
ONE of the most discussed aspects of this year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann was the involvement of musical bands from the loyalist tradition in the...
CLAIMS from the republican splinter group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓNH) that it attempted to kill an alleged loyalist in west Belfast earlier this...
THEY say a week is a long time in politics. In Northern Ireland, it seems we can hardly go a single day without another scandal, another jaw-dropping...
ONCE the votes are counted and the seats declared, the focus quickly shifts to whether an Executive can be formed, and then who will pick the various...
Mike Nesbitt’s resignation as health minister should serve as a warning to Jon Burrows: it is one thing to win applause by opposing an unpopular...
DARRYL Wilson, a DUP councillor in north Antrim, has raised an important and rarely considered problem with disability benefits – the burden...
PART of Jon Burrows’ appeal to UUP members was the prospect of a leader who would take control, enthuse the electoral base and end the ongoing,...
Jon Burrows has learned the hard way that politics is about more than making populist pronouncements. Just when the former policeman and Stormont...
THERE are a few nonsenses about the Assembly which need to be dismissed and then dumped for ever. The first is that there is some sort of magic...
IT’S pretty obvious that nationalists and unionists hold diametrically opposed positions on the national question which substitutes for bread and...
The weekend collision on the M9 motorway in Co Kildare, which killed five teenage boys and left four members of a separate family seriously injured,...
ANYONE spending time on social media cannot fail to have noticed the proliferation of competition websites in recent years. Slick adverts dangle the...
NINA Simone did not pull her punches. She lived in an era and a country where it was dangerous to be black. “Southern trees bear a strange fruit,”...
THE woman in the grey coat, holding a Pomeranian in her red woollen mittens, appeared calm when the RUC pulled up alongside her on the Malone Road in...
It is completely unacceptable for groups, whether based in a loyalist or a republican area, to organise bonfires which either endanger the public or...
Is it acceptable for paramilitary or dissident organisations to be around nearly 30 years after the GFA? No. Are there people who use these...
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