- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Comedian Frank Carson dies aged 85
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
- Protesters refused cathedral appeal
- Man accused of starting riots blaze
- PM urges 'thorough' fraud probe
- Fox urges Budget business tax cuts
- UK reporter dies in Syria onslaught
- Private firm to run police station
- Ex-bouncer guilty of Nikitta murder
Columnists
NR GREER: Northern Ireland NAMA will not help business
ONE thing about bankers, you have to give them credit for having a brass neck.
ALEX KANE: Learning to live with troubled past
LISTENING to Al Hutchinson’s suggestion of a possible amnesty for some murderers I was reminded of a quote from the detective writer L. C. Tyler: “I am completely with Agatha Christie on the issue of whether you could murder somebody on a Nile paddle steamer. You can murder somebody anywhere. It’s getting away with it that is always the tricky bit.”
NICK GARBUTT: It’s been a bad week for the fans
IT’S been a horrendous week for followers of both rugby and football – the one still held back by bungling amateurism, the other hamstrung by egos and greed.
1 commentBEN LOWRY: The environmental case for roads
BARELY a driver in Northern Ireland has not felt frustration at being caught behind a slow-moving vehicle such as a tractor.
ALEX KANE: SF wants a border poll? Bring it on!
ON March 8, 1973, a referendum in Northern Ireland asked two questions: Do you want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom; (or) Do you want Northern Ireland to be joined with the Republic of Ireland outside the United Kingdom?
5 commentsBEN LOWRY: The epidemic of bad grammar
HOWEVER you feel about Gerry Adams, we can recognise one thing.
3 commentsNR GREER: NI needs to explore its potential
I have not been skiing for 25 years or so, but last weekend I got talked into a weekend in Andorra.
GRAHAM WALKER: Unionists have role to play in Scots debate
PERHAPS predictably only a portion of Reg Empey’s recent remarks about the prospect of Scottish independence and its impact on Northern Ireland was given prominence.
2 commentsALEX KANE: Old pals’ act is out of the question
THERE are moments when I have to bang my head against a wall or table just to reassure myself that I haven’t been transported to some sort of parallel universe where nonsense is the currency of political debate and hypocrisy the only vehicle for political promotion.
7 commentsIAN PAISLEY: In praise of our heavenly ‘Vagabond King’
THE New Statesman recently carried an article entitled The Vagabond King. It tells the story of Valentine Strasser. In 1992 he became the world’s youngest head of state when he seized power in Sierra Leone. But now, according to this article, he lives with his mother and spends his days drinking gin by the roadside.
1 commentNICK GARBUTT: The demonisation of Fred ‘the Shred’
BY the time I joined National Australia Bank Fred ‘the Shred’ Goodwin had already left. I never found anyone who had a good word to say about him.
Conservatives now enter last chance saloon
SO it’s back to the future for the Conservatives: back to a title — Conservative and Unionist — that was first used at the time of the original Home Rule Crisis at the end of the 19th century.
ALEX KANE: Union family must work together
IF, as Tom Elliott says in his letter to UUP members, the talks between the UUP and DUP were “without prejudice to the interests or integrity of the UUP and to explore areas of cooperation for the benefit of unionism in general,” then why conduct them in secret?
2 commentsIAN PAISLEY: Long and winding road back to stability
“ARDUOUS, long and uneven” are the words used by the governor of the Bank of England to describe the path to economic recovery, as news broke that our national debt hit the £1 trillion mark for the first time!
NICK GARBUTT: The emergence of ‘responsible capitalism’
ONE of the most obvious consequences of the global turndown of the economy has been the manifest unfairness of its consequences.
NR GREER: Capitalist activism is the way to go
CAPITALISM has been back in the dock recently with all the national party leaders making calls for those nasty wealth-creating employers to have a cuddly make over.
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Wednesday 22 February 2012
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