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The harrowing images from Belfast, Northern Ireland last week of a masked youth throwing a petrol bomb, egged on by a willing crowd of teenagers and adults, are depressing enough. The fact that the petrol bomb hit a security gate…
I was born in Northern Ireland in 2000 to parents from either side of the traditional sectarian divide. Their relationship was formed in the context of a decades-long violent conflict that divided our communities on green and orange lines…
In 2017, women in Northern Ireland had one of the highest rate of murder by a partner in Europe – more than double the figure in England and Wales. Every single one a life avoidably, and senselessly lost. That this could be facing women in…
2019 intake MP for Pontypridd Alex Davies-Jones is set to become a shadow minister in UK Labour's Northern Ireland team as Karin Smyth is stepping down from the role, LabourList can reveal. It is understood that Keir Starmer has spoken to…
When we think of Labour’s achievements in power, we think of the National Health Service, the Open University, the national minimum wage, and we think too of the extraordinary achievement that was the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. The…
Brexit is the opportunity to create a brighter future for the country. It is the opportunity to give back to communities that have been neglected for too long. This requires the terms of our future relationship and trade with the EU to be…
Boris Johnson's controversial internal markets bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons tonight by a majority of 77, with 340 MPs voting in favour of the legislation and 263 votes against. The bill has been the source of much…
A government minister has confirmed that Boris Johnson's administration wants to introduce new legislation that "does break international law" – though said it would do so "in a very specific and limited way". On the new bill being proposed…
Labour has slammed the government over its leaked Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland and said that the people of the UK and the country's international partners will be unable to trust the government if it reneges on its obligations…
Brexit looms large again. After a general election being told about an 'oven-ready' deal, Boris Johnson is well on his way to collapsing that deal and the ongoing trade talks between Westminster and Brussels, according to the Financial…
Today is the 15th anniversary of Mo Mowlam's death. Mo was surely the best Northern Ireland Secretary this country has ever had, and one of the finest ministers to ever grace the Labour Party benches, and yet somehow she is increasingly…
John Hume was a political giant. Somehow, he endlessly gathered the strength and the bravery to make peace happen at enormous personal risk to himself and often in the face of fierce opposition, most notably in the talks he held that…
