Many Americans I meet in Europe are embarrassed by Trump and say that he doesn’t represent the real America. When you ...

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a line from the unfinished essay A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A claim, hard to stand up these days when too much poetry has ...

The decision made by Secretary of State Hilary Benn MP with regard to the Stormont Brake can be added to the litany of Unionist ‘tilting at the windmills’ strategies. Unionism has to understand that ...

Political chaos seems to have become more ubiquitous these past few years. Between the antics of the British Parliament ...

In the United States Democratic Senator John Fetterman caused a brief stir on social media when he showed up at Donald’s ...

Michelle O’Neill is saying turn that frown upside down. From the Irish News: Michelle O’Neill has defended the Stormont ...

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One of my former managers had a catchphrase “tolerance of ambiguity” to the effect that one of the qualities that characterised your potential to rise to senior management was the ability to tolerate ...

December 2024 saw the 25 th anniversary of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly To mark this significant event, former Agriculture Committee Clerk Paul Moore has been recounting some ...

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A good exclusive from Connla Young in from the Irish News: An English career criminal has claimed he was recruited to murder five people on behalf of MI5 in the early days of the Troubles. The ...