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PremiumRevealed: Stormont’s indefensible and unannounced policy of censoring declassified documents more heavily than in London

PremiumRevealed: Stormont’s indefensible and unannounced policy of censoring declassified documents more heavily than in London

Last year, while reading a declassified Government file at The National Archives in Kew, I had a sense of déjà vu. I’d seen a version of this file...

14.03.2026 10

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Sam Mcbride

History will take a dim view of Peter Mandelson the man, but may be kinder to his achievements in Northern Ireland

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09.02.2026 10

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Sam McBride

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08.02.2026 10

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Sam McBride

Weeks into Nama trial, Frank Cushnahan and his lawyers took a big gamble which can only now be explained

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04.02.2026 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

Why it’s way past time for an Irish passport office in Northern Ireland

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02.02.2026 30

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Sam McBride

Stormont can’t go on like this: It is a broken and a hapless administration whose rambling incoherence is now excruciating

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01.02.2026 40

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Sam McBride

Irish Sea border is hardening, despite the DUP’s deception — and the Stormont committee it trumpeted is excruciating to behold

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25.01.2026 30

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Sam McBride

The Irish unity dilemma almost no one has considered, but which would impact everyone

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18.01.2026 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

Pragmatism or hypocrisy? Sinn Fein’s refusal to hammer the rich raises intriguing questions… and answers

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13.01.2026 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

The year of stasis? The opportunities and threats facing every NI political leader in 2026

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11.01.2026 40

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04.01.2026 10

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Sam McBride

The real significance of Mike Nesbitt’s departure is what it means for unionist unity

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03.01.2026 20

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28.12.2025 9

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28.12.2025 6

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Sam McBride

The riddle of Ian Paisley Jr’s office: Vast sums of public cash, three mortgages, a dead man’s name and a mystery owner

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25.12.2025 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

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23.12.2025 10

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Sam McBride

People in our communities who stir up hatred of innocent refugees aren’t fit to wash their feet

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22.12.2025 10

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Sam McBride

How your Christmas turkey is killing Lough Neagh: The lie of cheap meat contains a hidden cost which can no longer be ignored

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21.12.2025 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

An Assembly that doesn’t legislate is taking a month-long Christmas break – this is a dangerously out of touch system

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14.12.2025 20

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Sam McBride

How Nigel Farage could weaponise a border poll against the Irish state

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08.12.2025 20

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Sam McBride

Unionism’s lost decade: How a flawed decision 10 years ago precipitated a collapse for the ideology which built Northern Ireland

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07.12.2025 30

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

This artwork is a silent rebuke for all of us… too scared or insensitive to recognise NI’s often ignored victims

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01.12.2025 10

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

Expert warns NI on a path to Lebanon-style decay if floundering Stormont isn’t urgently reformed

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30.11.2025 7

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Sam McBride

Inquiry has cost over £200m, yet has hidden evidence of Stormont’s chaos which will be destroyed – just as some hoped

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23.11.2025 10

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Sam McBride

Paul Givan may be happier with the Supreme Court’s religious education ruling than he appears

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21.11.2025 8

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

The Rathlin experiment: How a tiny island could have a big role in how we live our lives

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17.11.2025 8

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

NI’s governance was revolutionised 40 years ago – but only now is gulf between ferocious unionist rhetoric and private compromise emerging

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16.11.2025 9

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Sam McBride

How one noble act prompted ex-Provo’s quest to find remains of Robert Nairac

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10.11.2025 8

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Sam McBride

Civil servants and MLAs are gorging on taxpayer-subsidised food while at the same time juries are refused so much as a toaster

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09.11.2025 10

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Sam McBride

Dissident republicans must wish Blue Lights had never been made

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03.11.2025 10

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Stormont has never had it so good – despite decrying ‘British austerity’, it’s getting more money than ever in NI’s history

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02.11.2025 20

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Sam McBride

Will Catherine Connolly be a president who can heal cross-border relations or a Sinn Féin stooge?

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27.10.2025 10

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Sam McBride

In praise of MLAs: Recent episode shows they’re not all useless — and believing otherwise is highly dangerous

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26.10.2025 8

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If a border poll arrives, the southern ‘No’ campaign will shock and appal many Irish people

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20.10.2025 20

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Why should the south vote for a united Ireland? Finding practical reasons was tougher than I thought

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20.10.2025 20

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Judge's scathing verdict poses a serious question for integrated education... while DUP now needs to speak to a sceptical public

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19.10.2025 10

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12.10.2025 7

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12.10.2025 30

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Nama trial is a thriller with back-stabbing and claims of insatiable greed... and it's an establishment who's who

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06.10.2025 8

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Sam McBride

Nama trial a riveting blockbuster of high politics and raw capitalism

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06.10.2025 8

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Sam McBride

Stormont is pretending to close RHI, but isn’t: it’s quadrupling payments, locking them in to 2036, and making scheme easier to abuse

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05.10.2025 10

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Sam McBride

Largely unknown parliamentary veto on border poll exists — but Government dismisses possibility of a rogue minister

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28.09.2025 10

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Sam McBride

The spying that wasn’t really spying: How PSNI’s silence made its actions seem far worse than they were

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25.09.2025 8

Belfast Telegraph

Sam McBride

Man or Machine? In politics and everyday life, it’s increasingly hard to tell

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22.09.2025 6

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21.09.2025 20

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There’s a gaping hole in the British-Irish legacy deal – and to the killers it must reek of weakness

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20.09.2025 10

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Sam McBride

Sam McBride goes inside the undeveloped $20bn NI goldmine that Stormont can’t decide on

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14.09.2025 10

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Sam McBride

The slowest gold rush: A $20bn Tyrone gold deposit Stormont can’t decide on – which is now geopolitically significant

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14.09.2025 7

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07.09.2025 10

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07.09.2025 20

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