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THE sight of the British proconsul going out to the gates of his vice-regal lodge at Hillsborough to greet the Sinn Féin delegation for talks on a...
NEXT Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of what was the inauguration of Ulster Resistance. On November 10 1986 about 3,000 men, by invitation only,...
AT the time of writing, it’s not clear whether Carla Lockhart’s resignation from the DUP will drive the party to pull Emma Little-Pengelly from...
GAVIN Robinson’s promise of “profound consequences” as a result of Sinn Féin leaders joining the Garvaghy Road residents to block the Orange...
THIS day last week, between 3.30 and 4.30pm, the House of Commons ran the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill through all...
THERE’S been a row simmering all year in the south about the triple lock. No, nothing to do with pensions. In the south the triple lock means –...
IF you ever wanted to present a model of weak political leadership to study, Gavin Robinson is your exemplar. His weekly (weakly?) email to party...
PRESIDENT Joe Biden told the Munich Security Conference in 2021 that “America is back”, reassuring his audience that Trump was an aberration and...
FACEBOOK was invented in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates in a student hall in Harvard. Twitter was invented in March 2006. Ten...
IAR-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, speaking last Monday night in Dungannon at a conference organised by Mid-Ulster council, said that when people talk about...
THE Court of Appeal heard the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition case on Monday, exactly 58 years to the day since the RUC batoned peaceful civil...
ON September 8, the British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. He said it...
AFTER all the turmoil of recent days, two key questions remain unanswered. One, which Michelle O’Neill kept asking rhetorically, is: “What has...
THE DUP’s Gavin Robinson was quickly out of the traps to repudiate Donald Trump’s remarks on Irish unity. He posted on X that “Northern...
WE’RE told that Micheál Martin raised the matter of reform of the Assembly and Executive when he met Andy Burnham in Manchester last Friday. ...
MASS migration is causing countries to urgently revise their rules on residency and citizenship. Nowhere is this action more urgent than in Britain,...
DESPITE last weekend in Doonbeg being about golf and despite Shane Lowry carding a record score, beating Bernhard Langer’s 1987 figure, Trump...
THE cataclysmic events of September 11 2001, known everywhere by the American dating convention as 9/11, still reverberate today in both the US and in...
YOU might think the provocative, preposterous demand to march along Garvaghy Road, which has so dismayed most people north and south, is to do with...
PRESIDENT Macron was the first foreign leader Andy Burnham met in Downing Street since he became prime minister. Burnham is at the beginning of his...
On his first visit to the north in July after his appointment, the new proconsul wouldn’t answer a question from The Irish Times on reunification. ...
THE Westminster parliament resumes on September 1 and a leisurely week later, on September 7, Stormont resumes business as usual – bickering and...
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...
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...
IT’S pretty obvious that nationalists and unionists hold diametrically opposed positions on the national question which substitutes for bread and...
IT seems Donald Trump’s depredations in the Middle East since 2025 with war criminal Netanyahu have realigned politics and diplomacy there, but not...
NEWSPAPERS and social media are all full of justified praise and admiration for the astonishing success of the Fleadh and its hands across the divide....
IT looks as though the Irish government has successfully passed the first test of its presidency of the Council of the EU. On Tuesday, Minister of...
The Greeks had a word for it: ‘adiaphora’ – inessentials, matters of indifference. Martin Luther, who was pretty good at Greek (he translated...
THE divide in French politics and society since the early 19th century, examined here over the past couple of weeks, remains as clear as ever....
THE forelock-tugging unionist media here eagerly await the arrival of the new proconsul, full of anticipation about what changes he will make to...
Last week’s column dealt with the origins of the divide in French society and politics that still persists today. This week’s deals with the...
When the new British prime minister visits this place on his obligatory skite round what the BBC calls “the nations and the regions of the UK”,...
On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron presided over his last Bastille Day parade; his term in office ends next year. It was the biggest display of French...
THE DUP response to the latest stunt by the Moygashel Morons – placing a mock cardboard mosque on their bonfire to be burnt – provided a classic...
THE Stormont Assembly has shut down for the 2025-6 session. How can you tell? You can’t, because you’ll see no difference between nothing...
IT can hardly have escaped your notice that in the last month, developments on the matter of Irish reunification have accelerated. Last night Sinn...
TODAY is a sad day not only for many Americans but for millions around the world who once looked to the United States as a beacon of democracy and...
Sinn Féin has introduced a Bill requiring the Dublin government to publish a Green Paper on reunification within 12 months. The government didn’t...
IN 1962, Dean Acheson, a former US Secretary of State, in a speech at the American military academy West Point, summed up Britain’s dilemma with...
IT’S exactly 10 years to the day when the first results of the Brexit referendum from the north-east of England began to indicate a victory for...
JEFFREY Donaldson will forever be remembered for his precipitous fall from grace on Good Friday 2024, when the news gradually emerged of his arrest...
IN this paper on Saturday, Pat McArt warned about the gradual erosion of free speech and civil liberty. As he wrote: “Rights and freedoms are rarely...
THE explosive resignation letter of Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey on Thursday brought an ongoing row in the British Cabinet to a head. At...
A bumper weekend for racism and sectarianism in the north. The Moygashel morons in action again, replacing their racist banner; a derelict Shankill...
THE European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951 to integrate Europe’s coal and steel industries. The...
YOU probably remember that in April last year, the SDLP MLA Cara Hunter caused a bit of a stir when she posted on X about unionists: “The coloniser...
ON Tuesday, as he had promised in the SNP’s election campaign, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney presented a motion to its parliament calling...
THE by-election results in Dublin Central and Galway West were seriously bad for Sinn Féin. There’s no other way to spin them. Admittedly they are...
IRELAND’S President Catherine Connolly in England, Britain’s King Charles in the north at the same time. Surely no coincidence? After all, these...
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