Stormont Junta: a ‘suspect device’– by Paul G Stewart
Coup d’état in Western Europe? Unheard of in modern times: unimaginable and surely not possible? Yet there has been a junta established in a part of Western Europe in recent years: a junta, largely...
View Article“Shouting loudest is not politics”– by Terry Wright
In 1998 political unionism earned an opportunity to build on the leadership it displayed in signing the Belfast Agreement. It has not done so. The Agreement was undeniably problematic and difficult...
View ArticleCan progressive politics flourish with its star hitched to Orangeism? – by...
One of the abiding images from the past year is that of PUP leader Billy Hutchinson dressed as Edward Carson, the Dublin-born barrister, anti-socialist and friend-cum-foe of Oscar Wilde. Hutchinson...
View ArticleSinn Fein’s Mitchel McLaughlin warns Governments –‘Political crisis’ is...
I was reflecting on the stalled Haass proposals and the stark warning he issued during evidence to the US Congressional subcommittee of foreign relations. Dr Haass told the hearing that without...
View ArticleWhy is Unionism ‘agnostic’ on a visit by Pope Francis to Belfast? – asks Kyle...
It is strange, to say the least, that hardly one dissenting voice has been raised by Unionist politicians or Protestant ministers against the proposal to bring the Pope to Belfast. While on the one...
View ArticleIs Unionism for Londonderry but not Derry? – by Terry Wright
As with other places big and small throughout Northern Ireland the streets of Derry/ Londonderry are festooned with election posters for the local and European elections. Large amounts of money and...
View Article“Peace still feels like conflict”– argues Terry Wright
After the local and European elections, is Northern Ireland any better off? Nearly 50% of the electorate who opted out of the process probably feel that the answer is no. The turbulent nature of...
View ArticleUnionism and modernity – by Colm Dore
Unionism was founded on, and remains dominated by, fear of the Other, inextricably linked with regard of the Other as inferior. That is incompatible with modern discourse, and, by ‘modern’, I...
View ArticleThe growth of Sinn Féin & subversive forces – by Colm Dore
As Sinn Féin grows in popularity in the South, a subversive element is increasingly revealed, but not one that SF’s detractors have in mind. In the wake of the local and European elections, Colm...
View ArticleIs The Ulster Unionist Party snatching its clothes back from the DUP in going...
Stormont is not Westminster. In the latter politicians do not choose Opposition. They are placed there. It is a mark of limited success within the narrow democratic capacity of a particular voting...
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