Human Rights Consortium: Rights at Risk: brexit, human rights and Northern Ireland; Belfast, January 2018 It would be an injustice to write an extensive critique to the 132 pages of puffery…
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Our Island Histories?
Consider the following quotations: “I happen to belong to a minority who hold that the breakup of the United Kingdom may be imminent”. “It [Northern Ireland] pays a heavy…
On Human Rights
Over the holidays the Irish Times carried a review of Omar Grech’s book on Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Conflict by Brice Dickson, first Chief Commissioner of the Northern…
Five principled points for Unionism
Sometimes we need to address the future by referencing some fundamentals. In an article coinciding with the centenary of the Ulster Covenant, and reflecting on its place in the historical self-understanding…
The DUP prioritised The Union. Unionists do that.
The whole point of the DUP is to safeguard Northern Ireland’s position within the UK. As unionists, they believe in the nation state and see the UK as the rock…
The UK is trading just fine, together.
This is a brief response to Ed Conway “The UK is becoming a disunited Kingdom”writing in The Times (£) on 8th December. Mr Conway – Sky News Economics Editor…
That was the deal that wasn’t.
What might have been the economic impact on Northern Ireland if the Prime Minister had in fact accepted the deal which was proposed by Brussels on the morning of Monday…
Unionist? Don’t be shy.
At a recent gathering of representatives of what could be called Unionist ‘middle Ulster’ – middle class, middle ranking, middle politics citizens – one attender made an interesting observation. She…
A sensible deal on the Northern Ireland border is very achievable
Brussels and Dublin should stop playing games. Hell hath no fury like a Commission scorned. Since the UK is breaking up the European Commission’s cherished Union, the Commission retaliates by…
Mind your language
Ever since Irish Republicans realised they had lost their so-called ‘armed conflict’ there was no doubt that culture wars would emerge to take precedence. That became apparent in the development of…