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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...
LABOUR’S campaign in the Makerfield by-election got off to a good start, didn’t it? Wes Streeting said “Britain’s future lies with Europe and...
THE report by former civil service permanent secretary Peter May into the workings of the satirically named Independent Commission for Reconciliation...
THE prize for the most fatuous comment about last week’s British elections goes to Gavin Robinson, the charisma-free DUP leader. At Stormont on...
THE full results of the council and parliamentary elections in Britain won’t be known until this evening, and the final outcomes in Edinburgh and...
First, to clarify: last week’s column didn’t advocate Sinn Féin downing tools and walking out of the Assembly immediately. The whole expensive...
IN the midst of the blizzard of news surrounding the visit of Britain’s king to the US (or, to be more accurate, to the malevolent White House...
SINN Féin’s ard fheis at the weekend was a success – up to a point. The return to Belfast after seven years allowed them to demonstrate with up...
SPANISH prime minister Pedro Sanchez hosted a big conference in Barcelona last weekend. It was attended by more than 20 political leaders from around...
THIS obsession on the airwaves and in the press here with the ins and outs of the agonies of the British Labour Party, and its prospects in the local...
WHEN you hear that a government – usually the US or its glove puppet, the UK – has ‘sanctioned’ somebody, what does that mean? The term was...
MICHEÁL Martin’s government had it coming. People seem to have forgotten the protests by farmers about Mercosur which reached a crescendo in...
THE Easter holidays seem to have brought it home to the north’s hospitality trade that they face serious difficulties competing with their...
WHAT’S in a name? The media everywhere has to be careful with nomenclature, not least in the US where the White House clown has banned certain...
WHERE are we with the growing energy crisis? As usual, as Seamus Heaney said, “sucking the hind teat”. That is, as explained in a glossary of...
Alex Kane set the cat among the unionist pigeons a couple of weeks ago with his piece on March 18. As a reminder to people, he wrote that “the past...
HAVE left-wing and progressive political parties finally learnt something from history? Results in recent elections, particularly in France and Italy,...
GAVIN Robinson – he’s the charisma-free DUP leader, in case you don’t know – took Reform’s Robert Jenrick for a walk on the Shankill last...
WELL, it’s over, the ordeal in Washington that is. Micheál Martin survived. Better than that, he emerged unscathed. Opposition parties criticised...
THERE’S a new book out tomorrow from Will Hutton, author and journalist, formerly principal of Hertford College Oxford. Thirty years ago he wrote...
THURSDAY week ago, after it emerged a French frigate was at Limassol in Cyprus and Spanish, Italian, Greek and Dutch ships were on the way to help...
THE DUP love Britain being at war. It’s their chance to maximise their notions of loyalty, of patriotism, to urge the British government to go...
AS you probably know, the Republic will take over the presidency of the EU Council in July. At present Cyprus holds the position, which lasts for six...
My colleague Alex Kane has argued that it is time for a rethink by nationalists on Irish unity. He correctly described the 2019 conference ‘Beyond...
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