Opinion

This is no time for recrimination. Our political, economic and constitutional future is much too important for that.

The admission by the government that ‘exit declarations’ will have to be made on goods traded with Great Britain should bring home to everyone the economic and constitutional damage which the proposed Withdrawal Agreement will do to Northern Ireland’s position as a part of the United Kingdom.

Republican parties say they support the EU, they want a united Ireland, yet are stirring up separatist movements in Spain and call for a two state solution between Palestine and Israel.

There’s nothing ‘magnificent’ (as some have described it) about legislation that will rob the innocents of life, and thus brings Northern Ireland into line with ‘Great’ Britain.

A British doctor, who was sacked for standing up for his Christian faith, was told that his views were “incompatible with human dignity,” according to The Times of London.

The delay that Parliament agreed last night to the Brexit deal is about the best immediate outcome that unionists could have hoped for.

The disgraceful full frontal denouncement of Nigel Dodds in Parliament by the prime minister was a shocking delivery of Tory treachery.

Today is a tragic day for anyone who supports the value of life in Northern Ireland.

I write to correct anyone who thinks the recall to Stormont on Monday was just a DUP political stunt.

So Alliance refused to attend at Stormont because they felt the sitting of the assembly was a ‘DUP stunt’.

Yikes! Sir Oliver Letwin has thrown a spanner into the works in the seemingly endless confusion over Brexit.

It was lovely to see Bernie Linnane (‘We are all equal — except women who do not have bodily autonomy,’ Oct 19) expressing an opinion on abortion rights.

After some difficulty, I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of Sam McBride’s book ‘Burned’.

Today is a shameful milestone in Northern Ireland politics.

The Letwin amendment briefly stopped the Boris Johnson deal juggernaut over the weekend, giving us time to take stock before it picks up speed again during the week.

Northern Ireland has been given a great opportunity by Boris Johnson to become another ‘Singapore’.

Well, at least we now know, for sure.

On Saturday MPs did not vote on Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement, because the amendment tabled by Oliver Letwin was passed before a division on the deal.

On Saturday the DUP was abandoned by Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, the ERG and the Conservative Parliamentary Party.