This election raises questions for the out-going Executive, but also questions for the out-going Opposition. Much Opposition criticism of the Executive appears to deny the basis…
Picture by @AntrimLens Several years ago Sinn Féin set out our view that the most effective truth recovery mechanism was an International Independent Truth Commission set…
It’s strange the things that cause a stir on social media, as I found out recently when I changed my social media profile pictures to a…
He attended RBAI - read Law at Queen’s University, turned his back on all of this, took up a paint brush and a pen and…
“If dealing with the past is the proper thing to do then it shouldn’t be contingent on what your opponent will do. It can’t always be…
Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), The Right to Life, provides for signatories, i.e. governments, to ensure that when life is taken…
Last month the Belfast Telegraph ran a three-day series of ‘Inside MI5’ articles on its front and inside pages. The paper reported it was the first…
Over the past number of days British Secretary of State James Brokenshire has been scene setting for potentially another attempt to resolve the outstanding issue of…
A little over a week ago, a tweet from Nick Watt, once based in Belfast as Ireland Correspondent of the Times, drew our attention to James…
Where is Ulster without the Scots? Where are unionists without soft nationalists and cosmopolitan Protestants? These are the gaps that have widened since June 23 2016.…
By this time next week we should know the shape of the Stakeknife investigation. Already, there has been one delay in the announcement. It had been…
Usually the last piece of the jigsaw is the easiest one to find. Not so at Stormont. Yes, we can see much of the shape of…
Stormont is not Westminster. In the latter politicians do not choose Opposition. They are placed there. It is a mark of limited success within the narrow…
More telling than the leaders’ debate was the response in the Spin Room where an audience drawn from a wide spectrum of stakeholders, with maybe one…
Easter, 1916 - a terrible beauty was born. It had a dark and little seen twin; a terrible ignorance of the people of the North. South…