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Is anyone genuinely surprised that, according to the latest LucidTalk opinion poll, an overwhelming majority of unionists – around 80% – support...
These are troubling times for Sinn Féin. On both sides of the border. But whether it’s long-term troubles we’re talking about, we won’t know...
Ask most people in Northern Ireland to describe east Belfast and they will usually give you a variation on the theme that it was once a vibrant...
At an event I was doing about four years ago, a member of the audience delivered what struck me as a very astute observation: “Unionists are...
To be honest, there’s nothing particularly surprising about the 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey, details of which were published in...
In an article for this newspaper on February 26 2016 (’Donald not so much joker as a Trump card’), I argued that it was looking increasingly...
When the Loyalist Communities Council was established on October 13 2015, I was generally supportive. It had concerned me that the loyalist...
In a piece for this newspaper on March 30 (’Here’s a job for you, Leo – lead a campaign for unity’), I suggested that Leo Varadkar might be...
It’s surprising how many MLAs seemed miffed when Hilary Benn, having said there are “no easy answers”, further told them that the Executive,...
In December 2008 David Cameron, at that point leader of the opposition, asked: “Why are there great Ulstermen and women on our television screens,...
Last Wednesday, in the House of Commons, Northern Secretary Hilary Benn announced there would be a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor...
2024 will be remembered as the year of new leaders: Gavin Robinson, Mike Nesbitt and Claire Hanna. And with Stephen Farry stepping down as deputy...
On September 2 1994, just two days after the IRA announced its “complete cessation of military operations”, a poll in the Belfast Telegraph...
In the early hours of March 3 2017, live on air, before the count had finished for the assembly election and with the final results yet to be declared...
There have been a number of comedy films over the years which included a scene about that ultimate nightmare moment of teenage angst: what if you...
Like so many of these “moments” it wasn’t, in fact, a huge surprise. On July 30th, I sent a message to Doug Beattie asking him for an...
As this newspaper has repeatedly pointed out since Stormont was once again raised from the dead in February, the executive has been good at providing...
When I was born, on August 13th, 1955, unionism was just about master of everything it surveyed across Northern Ireland. In the UK general election,...
A number of factors have both fed into and fuelled the riots and confrontations we have seen across streets in Belfast and some English cities this...
A border poll is more likely than not in the next decade or so. In the run-up, we’ll see a series of discussions and decisions on the precise terms...
The Conservative Party has just begun the process of selecting its tenth leader since November 1990, when John Major succeeded the defenestrated...
Something very odd happened in local politics last Friday. We got a Secretary of State who could, without being aided by a staffer, point to Belfast...
It was another bad election day for mainstream unionism in Northern Ireland. It could have been worse. Indeed, it could have been catastrophic. The...
I still think the Northern Ireland end of the general election campaign was, for the most part, fairly dull. All of the parties – expecting it to...
Oddly, I’m not dismayed by the rout of the Conservatives. I welcome it. I don’t even recognise the party. From 2015 most of its key people were...
There was a time — and not that long ago, to be honest — when Tom Kelly’s column on Monday (’Why I believe voting should be made compulsory...
Two weeks away from polling day – and hasn’t it seemed like a very long election – we’re in what I call the ‘what if?’ stage of analysis....
Revolutions are funny old things. You can never be entirely sure of the precise moment or incident which kickstarts them, let alone what will be left...
Like you, Brian, I’m old enough to remember when Sinn Féin took the abstentionist approach to just about every assembly or parliament you could...
When John Manley – from this parish – mentioned on last week’s Sunday Politics that there was an ‘outside chance’ that Jim Allister might...
By the end of the first week of the Ulster Workers’ Council (UWC) strike, on May 22 1974, an impasse had been reached. The power-sharing executive...
Sometimes even atheists feel the need to look skywards and yell, ‘Thank God!’ That’s what I was doing on Wednesday evening when Rishi Sunak...
Writing in this column on February 5, just after the assembly had been rebooted and the Command Paper published, I wrote: “The biggest headache for...
Rishi Sunak must have bought his electoral sat nav from Del Boy Trotter. There is, in fact, no possible route from last Thursday’s polling meltdown...
It suits Rishi Sunak to have a row with the Irish Government right now, particularly on the subject of immigration policy – a policy on which he has...
I got quite excited when the phrase ‘dysfunctional b*****ds’ flashed across my timeline on Tuesday. So excited, in fact, that I didn’t bother...
“If unionists have trouble holding a constituency like East Belfast, then it won’t be long until they’re having problems in places like North...
Let me begin with three tweets which arrived on my timeline this week. “Why does it look like every facet of government-run services here are just...
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...
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