Brian is a writer, artist and law graduate.
When the Hyde Park bomb news broke I was horrified. On the rule of law and due process, immunising and exempting credible suspects who…
Loyalism needed unionism to save itself from itself. To bring facts to the “phantom fears”, to cut a path towards open, positive and welcoming…
Extremists have the whip-hand over the moderate, and you can’t say anything about it They make grand claims and wield arbitrary power over a…
Living in a liberal democracy is about the free movement of ideas and of opinions. Their exchange is the mother of creativity, innovation, technological,…
The First minister, Peter Robinson has said that we can expect more protests this Christmas. The same type of protests presumably that have, to…
Northern Ireland is simultaneously one of the most progressive and regressive places in the world. Yet political representation is almost singularly regressive. For young…
After the Romney defeat in 2012 you thought the GOP would start to exhibit a little modesty and even move towards pragmatic sausage-making. No.…
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ These words, drafted by Benjamin Franklin and enshrined into the secular…
Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate and the world’s celebrated poet passed away August 31 2013. He was Irish to the marrow, his passport avowedly green,…
Social media needs no explanation. Its pervasiveness has liberated and empowered people to do things and communicate in ways that, until recently, were unimaginable.…