It was never supposed to be like this. I watched with interest as one BBC presenter, reporting on the Assembly election results, told his largely B...

I first published this article in 2005 and again, slightly amended in 2016. It is dedicated to all candidates from all parties and none, and their ...

It's the final countdown to polling day and the pundits and pollsters are filling the airways and column inches with their take on who will be the ...

My recent tales of singsongs in the H Blocks have triggered more reminiscences of other such events. Two in particular stand out. Both were after L...

On Easter Sunday Irish republicans across Ireland and globally will commemorate and celebrate the men and women who rose up against the British Emp...

The democratic question remains the key issue internationally. It has been so since people asserted their right to citizenship. At the heart of tha...

On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The UDR was a locally recruited militia estab...

One unionist twitter account at the weekend posed the question; “How many different ways can the DUP tell us we MUST vote DUP no matter how incompe...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to dominate the news agenda. Lines of tanks and armored vehicles inexorably move toward Kyiv and other Uk...

The big story of the moment is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Like many of you I have been watching the round the clock news reports emerging fro...

The singular message emerging from the conflicting voices within political unionism at this time is their opposition to the election of a Sinn Féin...

Some politicians rarely, if ever, see the irony in the words they use. Take Boris Johnson. He is currently using the dispute between the Ukraine an...