MI5, Britain’s internal security agency, yesterday admitted that it had acted illegally when it accessed the phone of former ...

As I write this, tens of thousands of people are marching through London demanding ‘free speech’. The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ ...

Danny Kruger MP’s defection from the Conservatives to Reform was certainly a surprise. If Reform continued to lead the opinion polls and, much more importantly, to outperform the Tories in elections ...

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I like to think that I am on the right side of History. But really, there is no way of knowing. The history of 2025 is not yet written, so I suppose I just like the fact that when academics in the ...

It’s a phrase we hear all too often, dropped into political speeches or in answers to questions to journalists by Unionist politicians when discussing the constitutional issue. ‘The benefits of the ...

On Nolan on Friday we discussed Colum Eastwood’s claim that as an MP he often found it easier to get things done when Stormont was down than when it was up. He wasn’t advocating for abolition, but ...

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A pall of silence hangs over most of our churches. Prayer platitudes: Communion comforts, soothing sermons, finding ways to look away. From horror. Out of sight, out of mind, over there. Somewhere ...

In a less degenerate age, the sixteenth century Lord of all Ulster, but in my current incarnation, a one time film maker, animator and producer/director, currently a visual artist, iconographer, ...