For a generation, unionist parties competed on who looked toughest. The Garvaghy Road standoff suggests that has changed. Jon ...

While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...

The song Before You Go, by Lewis Capaldi, is taken from his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent. It refers to the suicide of his aunt when he was a boy. Capaldi became synonymous with ...

For a generation, unionist parties competed on who looked toughest. The Garvaghy Road standoff suggests that has changed. Jon Burrows has made restraint look like strength, and the DUP now faces ...

Without attracting much attention even from the local media, the Commons spent the best part of two days this week debating the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill. This is the latest attempt at what’s ...

Finance Minister announces £102.6 million for transformation projects On Tuesday (26 May), Finance Minister John O’Dowd announced £102.6 million for an additional six projects to transform public ...

It’s about leadership stupid. Something strange that has yet to be explained in the defenestration of Paisley the late chuckle brother. It was ideological as well as personal over his loss of grip due ...

A while ago I wrote a piece entitled “The End of Morality” in which I drew attention to a number of issues where morality had gone AWOL. Well where are we now? Let’s start with the UK. British ...

Jailed former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson is being investigated by London police about an alleged rape of a woman inside the Houses of Parliament, the BBC can reveal. The ...

From an interrogation at the Russian border to an anti-war lecture in Moscow and a power cut in wartime Mykolaiv, Peter Emerson travels through Putin’s Russia and into Ukraine. Along the way he asks ...

From an interrogation at the Russian border to an anti-war lecture in Moscow and a power cut in wartime Mykolaiv, Peter Emerson travels through Putin’s Russia and into Ukraine. Along the way he asks ...

Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a series of child sex offences, including one count of rape. The former DUP leader stood with his hands clasped in front of him in the ...