Tag: Northern Ireland

Total Results: 59


The somewhat controversial politician Enoch Powell. Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images
15 Sep 2020 - 1:10am

Enoch Powell, visionary As a new book notes, many of his most troubling predictions have indeed come to pass

Aris Roussinos

Friday, 26 June

26.06

Pity the prisoners who remain locked up In lockdown we've learned that restricting people's freedoms leaves them unmoored from life

Carlo Gebler

Wednesday, 26 February

26.02

Why Boris has his eye on a Union-boosting bridge Wouldn't the UK be better preserved by keeping Scotland and Northern Ireland apart?

Eilis O'Hanlon

Wednesday, 11 December

11.12

Should England be embarrassed by Brexit? How a national identity crisis became the subject of international ridicule

Jenny McCartney

Monday, 4 November

04.11

Will Brexit tear Belfast apart? The unionist community in Northern Ireland resents the way Brexit is being used by republicans to chip away at their Britishness

Paul Embery

Wednesday, 23 October

23.10

Don’t let Brexit become the next Troubles Growing up in Belfast in the 1970s taught me that tribal loyalties have a way of turning nasty

Jenny McCartney

Friday, 11 October

11.10

Why is Stella Creasy shutting down debate? One person’s harassment is, it would appear, another person’s legitimate crusade

Paul Embery

Friday, 13 September

13.09

‘Fake news’ is old hat in Northern Ireland The BBC's 'Spotlight on The Troubles' series shows that the decay of political language is not a new phenomenon

Douglas Murray

Tuesday, 16 July

16.07

What Brexiteers share with Russians Indifference could cause the break-up of the Union

Mary Dejevsky

Wednesday, 26 June

26.06

The woman who haunts the IRA This year's Orwell Prize-winning book sheds clear light on past ambiguities

Jenny McCartney

Wednesday, 19 December

19.12

Books that unveil the beauty in life’s bleakness

Jenny McCartney