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…
Browsing: Theresa Villiers
At the weekend I read Theresa Villiers’s oral statement to the British House of Commons on Tuesday. Presenting her assessment of ‘the structure role, and purpose…
Might Ms. Villiers’s paramilitary report be an attempt to control the rise of Sinn Fein in the South of Ireland, safe in the knowledge that Peter…
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…
You just have to read a couple of lines in Declan Kearney’s regular blog for the Belfast Telegraph to realise we’re not out of…
The pomp and circumstance of the Irish Presidential visit to the United Kingdom has paled into memory. The carefully choreographed receptions, visits and content…
The heading on the Secretary of State’s speech was ‘Moving Politics Forward’ and that is about as far as it got. This was a…
I have seen them come and I have seen them go… most of them so easily forgotten