How Brexit Lit the Fuse in Northern Ireland
13/04/2021
Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.
The Good Friday Agreement was born of the most painstaking talks I ever took part in. Now our prime minister threatens to rip it apart.
Boris Johnson is not only willing to risk peace in Northern Ireland – he's destroying a US trade deal too
15/08/2019
On the 21st anniversary of the Omagh bombing, the prime minister's brinkmanship over a no-deal Brexit manages to be both morally indefensible and utterly stupid.
There may be no direct comparison, but the ghosts of Northern Ireland’s violent past haunt Brexit
04/04/2019
The Protestant politicians of the 1970s and the Tory Brexiteers of today have a common denominator: their fear of ‘betrayal’ and their constant assurance that they are speaking for ‘the people of Britain’.
England’s casual indifference to the border question has betrayed the post-Troubles generation.