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Tom KellyThe Irish News |
POLITICS is a brutal business, and Keir Starmer is discovering just how personal it can be for someone in the top job. He’s now in an impossible...
THE spectacle of some politicians providing a veneer of cover for the racist rioters last week was unedifying but unsurprising. The attempted murder...
IN less than two weeks’ time, the future of the UK – and potentially our own – could be irrevocably changed, perhaps for the worse. This is a...
THIS morning, as you read this column, a Belfast family prepare to say goodbye to a husband, father, and grandfather. For anyone who has experienced...
LAST week I came across a disturbing video on Facebook showing a man being pinned to the ground by security guards. Tragically, he later died. Yves...
‘ENGLAND’S difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity’ has been a well-worn phrase within Irish nationalism since the days of Daniel O’Connell. ...
The English electorate never cease to amaze me with their political choices and sheer stupidity, especially since they voted for Margaret Thatcher. As...
IN my office at home, there is a caricature of two mules dressed in loyalist and republican regalia, with their tails tied together, pulling in the...
LAST Thursday, Queen’s University invited me to make a keynote lecture to mark becoming Honorary Professor of Practice in Politics and Public...
WHAT a week! Just when you thought Donald Trump couldn’t sink any lower into the amoral pit of his mind, he posts an image of himself looking like...
LAST week, I temporarily shut down my X/Twitter account, such was the volume of the vitriol and bile directed towards me. My crime, as far as these...
“IN order to prevent the slaughter of innocent people and in the hope of saving the lives of our followers, the members of the Provisional...
MOST people know the legend of the Gordian knot, tied by King Gordius of Phrygia, which it was prophesied only a future conqueror of Asia could untie....
SO the body which oversees the pay of our politicians has approved a whopping 27% increase in the salary of MLAs. Unsurprisingly, the public – Joe...
THE notion that the UK has a special relationship with the USA is, to put it politely, away with the faeries. The USA has only one special...
THERE’S no spinning or sugar-coating the election result in Gorton and Denton. The Green Party had a stunning result. Labour were squeezed into...
I found myself obliged to watch the Channel 4 documentary on Tony Blair. During the first two terms of his administration, I was a firm supporter of...
THERE has been much made of the monies being spent by the Department of Communities on the forthcoming 250th anniversary celebrations of the birth of...
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