What Happened to Katie Simpson Should Trouble Us All
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My trust in policing was pretty much a given growing up, though I appreciate that won’t be true for everyone reading this. For much of my life, I believed that if something truly awful happened to me, a police investigation …
The Future of These Islands: Preparing for Change
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Daniel McCrossan MLA, SDLP Chairperson, writes for Slugger about an event coming up on Irish unity Politics across Britain and Ireland is changing fast, and the recent election results in Britain underline just how profound that change could become. The …
Wes Streeting resigns as Health Secretary….
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The pressure continues to pile on the Prime Minister as today his health secretary Wes Streeting announced that he has quit the cabinet, but has yet to launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer. Wes does not have a great …
Proposal at Cork City Council for a statue to commemorate the mosquito that bit Oliver Cromwell…
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At Belfast City Council they are no strangers to daft proposals but this one from the third biggest city in Ireland is kind of genius. STATUE TO THE MOSQUITO OR MIDGE THAT BIT OLIVER CROMWELL ‘That Cork City Council will …
The transition to the Legacy Commission has to leave these problems behind or lose fragile public confidence.
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Sir Declan Morgan, Chief Commissioner ICRIR The combined impact of the May report on the functioning of the ICRIR and Nuala O’Loan’s scathing criticism that it was ‘”set up to fail” is bound to dismay its unbiased supporters. The HR …
Doug Beattie to be deselected for next Assembly Election…
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I do wonder if at times Doug Beattie would rather deal with the Taliban than local politics, at least you know where you stand with the Taliban. Despite being an ex-leader of the party and one of their big names, …
Forward Independence? Three Anti-Union First Ministers Elected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland…
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Adam Fusco is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Politics in the University of York The results of the devolved elections in Scotland and Wales have seen three out of three First Minsters elected for the first time that wish …
Still Living in Boris Johnson’s Brexit: The UK Supreme Court’s Dillon Judgment…
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Colin Murray is a Professor of Law at Newcastle University. The UK Supreme Court’s judgment last week in Dillon undermines the UK’s commitments in the Brexit deal. The decision, relating to the previous Conservative Government’s Legacy Act of 2023, and …
A dire warning about the increasingly popular alternative. Labour in chaos risks delivering UK government into their hands
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Matthew O’Toole, the former Downing St insider now leader of the opposition at Stormont, has issued a firm but polite warning of the prospects for all Ireland’s future of the increasingly likely alternative to Labour. YouGov’s poll today extends Reform’s …
‘Productive discomfort’: artists grapple with identity’s contradictions in live ARINS podcast
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Belfast Exposed gallery on Donegall Street hosted a live recording of the ARINS “My Identity” podcast on 8 May 2026, as part of the BIEN programme — an ongoing series of exhibitions and events under the title “British? Irish? Either? …