“Some good news for once,” a Scottish trans activist reportedly said last week, on hearing of Ann Widdecombe’s death....
July Articles
In Andy Burnham, we may end up having a PM without threatening views or even interest in NI
Even us politics junkies are now permanently dazed by the speed and complexity of keeping up with today's politics....
Just as the Israeli Amos Oz tried to understand Palestinians, I tried to do the same with unionists
I have no Jewish blood, but as an admirer of brave, brilliant, beleaguered little Israel, I became a self-identified...
I yearn for the days when we kept politics and sexuality out of the wardrobe
I was on the Irish radio station Newstalk’s morning programme to discuss a bizarre news item involving the Irish...
Father Patrick Ryan, the IRA’s ‘Terror Priest’ whose detonators were used in the Brighton bomb
‘The only regret I have was that I wasn’t more effective; that the bombs made with the components I supplied didn’t...
A return to the Twelfth reminded me of the many staunch unionists who enriched my life
I paid a brief nostalgic visit to the Twelfth this year - almost four decades since I first went near a parade....
What a spectacle a clash of super egos Michael D Higgins and Donald Trump would’ve been
Senator Michael McDowell recently ruled himself out as a candidate for the Irish presidency. I wasn't surprised....
Like them or not, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher were leaders – Keir Starmer is not
For the sake of Sir Keir Starmer’s mental health, I hope he’s avoiding media assessments of his first year in office....
Contradictory Sinn Fein are in a muddle over immigration in the south
I am rejoicing that Adam Kula and other News Letter colleagues have forced the PSNI to disgorge the shocking evidence...
Hillary’s ‘deplorables’ now have a champion – I’ll be cheering for Trump
Well, at last I’ve ceased hand-wringing about the awfulness of the candidates for the presidency of the United States...
Recent elections have brought change but not much of it looks good for the Shinners
Post-election, I’m one of the cheerful unionists. There may not be many of us, but there should certainly be more than...
Labour is reopening the old wounds of the Troubles
The new secretary of state for Northern Ireland should beware pointless arguments, and retain the Legacy Act...