Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP Leader, Peace Process Rejectionist
So here we go again. Ten years of successive leaders in the Democratic Unionist Party being hailed by the usualContinue Reading
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So here we go again. Ten years of successive leaders in the Democratic Unionist Party being hailed by the usualContinue Reading
It seems that Edwin Poots, the new head of the Democratic Unionist Party, is taking no prisoners in his contestContinue Reading
Following a decade of sympathetic coverage by journalists and commentators pushing the narrative that the Democratic Unionist Party was trulyContinue Reading
When Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and joint First Minister of Northern Ireland, told a BBCContinue Reading
During some of the most difficult days of the nascent Irish-British peace process the late bomb-maker turned peace-maker David Ervine,Continue Reading
As I wrote a few weeks ago, during the decades of the so-called Troubles while unionist terrorists may have pulledContinue Reading
In the wake of the United Kingdom’s stuttering final exit from the European Union it seems that the veteran newspaperContinue Reading
One of the more enjoyable aspects of last week was watching the mental gymnastics of Arlene Foster and other representativesContinue Reading
In a recent and rather pessimistic article for the News Letter the unionist commentator Alex Kane coined a pithy phrase toContinue Reading
Over the last few days I have had a rather testy exchange by email with a commentator from a northernContinue Reading
Incompetence or deliberate intent? That is the question in the minds of many observers as they look at the muddledContinue Reading
It is now commonly accepted that people in the northern half of the country, the elderly and the vulnerable, thoseContinue Reading
On the 16th of February 1886, Lord Randolph Churchill, a member of the troublesome “Fourth Party” backbench faction of theContinue Reading
By now it must be clear to even the most optimistic or obdurate Remain-supporter in the United Kingdom that soonerContinue Reading
So after two years of contentious negotiations abroad and political chaos at home, London has returned to the original “NorthernContinue Reading
The veteran Irish journalist and author Brian Rowan has taken to Twitter to claim that the leadership of the DemocraticContinue Reading
Despite the numerous media claims to the contrary, by both optimists and apologists, there is very little evidence that theContinue Reading
According to a terse official statement issued yesterday by the government in London, during a series of meetings in BelfastContinue Reading
As a “small u” unionist, from a Protestant background, I was more than content with the situation in Northern IrelandContinue Reading
By all accounts the headline-making confession of cocaine use by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food andContinue Reading
As voters in the north-east of the country go to the polls to elect three MEPs to the European Parliament,Continue Reading
The second part of the BBC documentary Brexit: Behind Closed Doors might as well be called “How Arlene Foster BlewContinue Reading