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…
As Sinn Féin grows in popularity in the South, a subversive element is increasingly revealed, but not one that SF’s detractors have in mind. In…
Unionism was founded on, and remains dominated by, fear of the Other, inextricably linked with regard of the Other as inferior. That is incompatible…
After the local and European elections, is Northern Ireland any better off? Nearly 50% of the electorate who opted out of the process probably…
As with other places big and small throughout Northern Ireland the streets of Derry/ Londonderry are festooned with election posters for the local and…
It is strange, to say the least, that hardly one dissenting voice has been raised by Unionist politicians or Protestant ministers against the proposal…
I was reflecting on the stalled Haass proposals and the stark warning he issued during evidence to the US Congressional subcommittee of foreign relations.…
One of the abiding images from the past year is that of PUP leader Billy Hutchinson dressed as Edward Carson, the Dublin-born barrister, anti-socialist…
In 1998 political unionism earned an opportunity to build on the leadership it displayed in signing the Belfast Agreement. It has not done so.…
Coup d’état in Western Europe? Unheard of in modern times: unimaginable and surely not possible? Yet there has been a junta established in a…
Brian Rowan on the unanswered marching question