Last month kicked off with a Lucid Talk opinion poll that placed Alliance close to catching the DUP for second place behind Sinn Féin. So what happens if…
Author: Daniel Holder
Whilst the Renewable Heating Initiative report is still awaited, we have a fair idea from Sam McBride’s Burnedand the public hearings of some of the alarming patterns…
In the week of a Tory pledge to amend the Human Rights Act to impede legacy investigations into the security forces, it is timely to reflect…
As the talks on the restoration of power-sharing have ‘intensified’, the most unhelpful zero-sum prism for measuring any outcomes is the notion that any one party’s…
A few weeks ago, in the festive period, the UK Home Office cheerily tweeted out that “EU citizens and their families will need to apply…
The Stormont House Agreement (SHA) describes the Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) as ‘an independent body to take forward investigations into outstanding Troubles-related deaths’. Human rights…
Around a month ago this website published the transcript of a speech by the PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton at the Queen’s University ‘victimhood…
In calling time on the negotiations former First Minister Arlene Foster reasoned that “We value the fact that there are Irish language speakers living in…
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…
On the back of a visit to Belfast last week Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the British government and…
The Stormont House Agreement is crystal clear that the planned Historical Investigations Unit (HIU) which will take on legacy investigations into Troubles-deaths will be ‘independent’ of…
In a case dating back to 1971 called ‘the hooded men case’ the British government was accused of torturing 14 IRA suspects at an unknown venue.…
Last night we had a briefing from senior retired police officers about the threat to national security from evidence that is being given in…