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‘In the absence of consensus it is important we stick with the status quo.’ The words of DUP minister Gordon Lyons earlier in the week as the...
The Ulster Unionist Party is in the process of changing leader for the fifth time since 2017, following Mike Nesbitt’s decision to step down for a...
It was Harold Macmillan who reportedly offered “events, dear boy, events” as the reason governments tend to run into difficulties or have plans...
Criticism, when rooted in misunderstanding or fear, often misses the very point it claims to defend. The controversy stirred over a proposed Fleadh...
I keep checking the date and referencing Christmas. This day a month ago, it was still 10 days away. Christmas is now firmly in the rearview mirror...
ONE response Stormont could take to the criminal barristers’ strike that began last week would be to establish a public defender office. Scotland...
I USUALLY make a couple of gentle resolutions at the start of each year. None of them particularly demanding, so I won’t be preparing for park...
REMEMBER the New Decade, Same Approach con job, signed on January 9 2020, which revived the Executive on January 11? We’re exactly six years into...
While it is always important to encourage and develop international sport, it needs to be recognised that the Commonwealth Games is a relatively...
The two stories sit uncomfortably beside each other on our front page, yet together they tell a single, troubling truth about the state of our...
It was as recently as 1998 that judicial murder was abolished in the United Kingdom. Although the death penalty was suspended in 1965 and abolished...
As long as technology has been around, it has been used by men to degrade women. Some man somewhere will find a way to sexualise a woman, whether...
Listening to Radio 4, a song came on by the late, great Derry singer Josef Locke. It made me laugh, as it kind of sums up how Stormont operates –...
The DUP leader, Gavin Robinson, plainly expects that his views on the proposed new Troubles legacy legislation at Westminster will be treated with...
Just into the new year, Denis Bradley, writing in this paper, raised a matter which has defied resolution throughout many old years. Truth, despite...
Amid the countless reactions to the 9/11 terror attack, one came from a source that some might have found unexpected. David Bowie, charming in...