Northern Ireland

As the campaign to win the leadership of the British Conservative Party moves on, momentum is building behind Liz Truss. Consistently ahead in Conservative membership polls and regularly racking up...

This month’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections were shocking, even though they were not surprising. The nationalists of Sinn Fein had polled increasingly well since Britain voted to leave the European...

All appears to be on the move in Northern Ireland. Northern Irish politics, never dull, have been complicated by the resignation of Paul Givan of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)...

With Britain and the European Union engaged in a new attempt to settle the border on the island of Ireland, it was always unlikely that this latest round of negotiation...

The problem of enforcing coronavirus restrictions without coming into conflict with significant parts of the population has afflicted many police forces during the pandemic. Reports, unimaginable a year ago, of...

Plenty of political spin has already been applied to the post-Brexit UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement. This not only glosses over much of the detail, but it can also be...

The British government is reportedly looking at the possibility of building a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The idea of creating such a connection is more than a century...