After the IRA ceasefire of 1994 the then leader of unionism, James Molyneaux described this as one of the most “destabilising events since partition”. I was surprised and disappointed by the statement but in a sense, he was right – …

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I’ve written before about moving away from the conservative Christianity and unionism of my upbringing, a gradual, personal shift that took shape during the decade I spent living and working in Dublin. That experience left me open to the idea …

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As regular readers might know, I’m on an online news and social media break over the summer. I’ve found that reading a paper newspaper is a good compromise—it keeps me informed without the internet’s relentless firehose of misery and information. …

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The efforts to expunge punk-rap duo Bob Vylan entirely from the public record are remarkable, disturbing, and appalling in equal measure. This week, the controversy surrounding their anti-IDF chanting at the Glastonbury festival has seen the duo widely condemned across …

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The Parades Commission has once again ruled that the Orange Institution will be banned from parading along Garvaghy Road in 2025. This decision is hardly surprising—it marks the thirtieth consecutive year such a ruling has been made. What may surprise …