Opinion

The Dublin economist David McWillams has been recently been writing that Northern Ireland is a failed economy with a soon-to-be Catholic majority and is headed for a United Ireland.

Putting a witch on trial was easy and popular.

In her tour of European capitals yesterday, the prime minister sought reassurances from EU leaders over the backstop.

Have you ever seen such a shambles in your life? The House of Commons is beginning to resemble a den of wild Kilkenny cats, fighting, biting, snarling.

The first MP to speak after the prime minister’s statement in the House of Commons yesterday was the opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

I can understand why unionists – irrespective of how they voted in the EU referendum – are angry. I can also understand – although I don’t agree with it – their desire to vent that anger at both Dublin and Brussels.

In his interview with this newspaper on page 6, Declan Billington gives one of the most impressive explanations to date of why many businesses are supporting the government in its Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

The future of our country is in the hands of the House of Commons.

Sinn Fein yesterday began to rehabilitate Barry McElduff yesterday, not long after he quit as MP.

By this time next week the future of the United Kingdom over the coming decades might finally begin to look clear.

Leaving the EU is an enormous challenge for the UK and will affect generations to come. MPs have the weight of that responsibility on their shoulders, and no MP takes that responsibility lightly.

People ask: what is the future of Christians in the Middle East?

We welcome the publication of the full legal advice following the vote in Parliament forcing the Government to fulfil the terms of the previous vote in Parliament.

Gibraltar and Northern Ireland are united by more than British heritage, ideals and freedoms.

Michelle O’Neill’s comments on behalf of the new pan-nationalist front of Sinn Fein, SDLP, Alliance and Green Party that the Brexit backstop is the only way to protect the Belfast Agreement is abject nonsense.

Yesterday was one of the most remarkable and dramatic days in modern British history.

Outlook bleak. That is the doleful forecast around Westminster over the plight of Theresa May’s Brexit plan — and indeed for her own future as Prime Minister.

No reassuring new light was cast on the Withdrawal Agreement yesterday in the House of Commons.

Thirty months after the referendum people still ask me if I have any regrets about voting Leave. “Surely,” they say, “you must have realised the problems that Leave could have for the Union; you must have been aware of possible economic chaos; you’re bound to have concerns about the future for your children (20, nine and 16 months)?”