Arlene Foster And The DUP Strikes Back With Demands For A Pan-Unionist Axis
Given the poor overall result for unionism in the regional election to the assembly at Stormont, many commentators expected Arlene Foster, the troubledContinue Reading
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Northern Assembly Election Results 2017, A Win For Progressive Nationalism
The final results from Thursday’s vote for the regional assembly in the north-east of the country has ushered in aContinue Reading
#AE17 Northern Assembly Election Results
Still early in the count, lots of transfers and recounts to go, but so far the overall vote has increasedContinue Reading
DUP Laundered Brexit Money For Mysterious Constitutional Research Council
After much speculation, the controversy embroiled Democrat Unionist Party (DUP) has finally come clean and named the British lobby group itContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP Deploy Donald Trump Tactics For The Stormont Election
It seems that Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), has adopted the electoral playbook of Donald Trump,Continue Reading
The Irish Language Finds A Cold Home In The Irish Parliament And State
While we are certainly right to decry the inherent hibernophobia of mainstream political unionism in Ireland, not to mention the UnitedContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
The DUP Vows To Skin The Irish Crocodiles And Turn Them Into Union Jack Handbags
Talking of colonial supremacists, here is Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and her latest contributionContinue Reading
Sir Edward Carson And The Politics Of Ulster Unionist Alt-Democracy
Before Donald J Trump, before the politics of the alt-right in the United States, there was Sir Edward Carson and theContinue Reading
Latest LucidTalk – Belfast Telegraph Assembly Poll. Is The DUP In Trouble?
Like many other observers I’m somewhat sceptical about the validity of election polling in the north-east of the country. DespiteContinue Reading
Appeasing The Orange Trumps Of British Unionism In Ireland Has Failed
It’s sometimes difficult to remember that there is a distinction to be drawn between unionists as an ethno-national minority inContinue Reading
An Orange Hall, A Grant, A Mysterious Address And The DUP
Talking of Irish political scandals, it seems that ideological unionism simply cannot help itself. Put to one side the involvement ofContinue Reading
So Far, The Cash-For-Ash Scandal Is A Very Unionist Affair
With the election to the cross-community assembly in the north-east of the country due to take place on the 2nd ofContinue Reading
The Peace Process Cannot Survive British And Unionist Animosity Or Dishonesty
When Martin McGuinness resigned as the deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive at Stormont, he blamed not only theContinue Reading
Is The DUP Hoping To Pull A Trump In Any Future Stormont Election?
The north-east of the country will almost certainly be heading for a regional election sometime in the next few weeks if, as expected today, the DemocraticContinue Reading
Where The Irish-British Peace Process If The Tories Reach For The DUP Orange Card?
Further on the crisis in the north-east of the country, presently regional, potentially national and international, Siobhán Fenton in the Independent newspaperContinue Reading
Martin McGuinness Resigns, Condemning The Bad Faith Of The DUP And The UK
The text of Martin McGuinness’ resignation letter in full, where the former deputy first minister in the north-eastern executive lays outContinue Reading
The RHI Ash-For-Cash Scandal Leaves Sinn Féin Dazed And Confused
The accelerated nature of the so-called “ash-for-cash” scandal in the UK-administrated north-east of the country has made the controversy aContinue Reading
The Ash For Cash RHI Scandal, Arlene Foster And The DUP Strikes Back
In 2011 the United Kingdom introduced a government-backed scheme known as the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), a payment system encouragingContinue Reading
A Reunited Ireland And The Rejectionist Politics Of Northern Unionism
A longer guest post by Mark Petticrew, a politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examining the contrasting obstacles British unionismContinue Reading
Political Unionism’s “Curry My Yogurt” Mentality
A short guest post by Mark Petticrew, a twenty-two year old politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examiningContinue Reading
From America To Ireland, Appeasement Has Become The Answer To Racism
One of the more repugnant individuals employed in the editorial team of the Donald Trump fanzine, Breitbart News, is the reporter Katie McHugh.Continue Reading
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