Opinion

In their call for the victim commissioner to be replaced, it is clear once again that the DUP is playing catch up with Ulster Unionist policies.

The anti British Broadcasting Corporation’s one sided reporting the past 50 years in Northern Ireland just keeps on going.

I have no idea what is going to happen over Brexit.

Politics on the Island of Ireland is changing. The emergence of Fine Gael in Northern Ireland over the last year is a product of that shifting political landscape.

When I watched police actions with the Clyde Valley band taking part in the Apprentice Boys of Derry (ABOD) parade last Saturday I was astonished at the extent of utter incompetence of senior police commanders in charge.

On Saturday August 10 2019 I was in Londonderry attending the Apprentice Boys of Derry annual parade celebrating my history and culture as I do each year.

Hong Kong was a crisis waiting to happen.

PLACE, The Architecture and Built Environment centre, was established in 2004 to provide a facility which enabled the public to engage with those subjects and thereby generate a knowledge and understanding of their importance to the wellbeing of everyone.

Emma Little Pengelly’s statement yesterday did not explicitly state a DUP view on Judith Thompson.

If Peter Taylor had come to Northern Ireland 90 days earlier than the date of Bloody Sunday he could have attended and reported on nearly 80 funerals linked to the period we too simplistically call the Troubles, never mind those who nearly died.

Put up and shut seems to be the definitive message for the innocent victims of terrorism, given their call for the Victims Commissioner Judith Thompson to resign, or as her term comes to an end for her not to be reappointed.

I heard Graeme Stenhouse the current governor of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, who have maybe 10,000 members in 238 Clubs, on BBC Radio Ulster last Tuesday.

On BBC Newsline last night Arlene Foster and Michelle Gildernew appeared beside each other near where dissidents tried to murder PSNI.

Following on from Sam McBride’s opinion piece on Saturday (‘We are entering a defining season for Foster — and for all of unionism,’ August 17):

“Had I been a teenager on Bloody Sunday I probably would have joined the IRA. I would have considered taking that final step which is what happened to hundreds of young Catholic men and women on and after Bloody Sunday. I do not support the IRA, I do not support violence. What I have always tried to do is to get inside the minds of people who choose to adopt that particular path.”

Has Mervyn Lewers’ question to the DUP about where it stands on the acceptability of the victims commissioner Judith Thompson had an answer yet or is the party treating it as rhetorical? (‘I don’t accept Judith Thompson as victim commissioner. Do the DUP?,’ August 9)

With military dignity on Saturday, Sir Robert Pascoe recounted the fine work of the British army during the Troubles.

I very much welcome the measured and conciliatory statement this week by the Apprentice Boys of Derry.

The row between Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson is one of the most important in modern British political history.