Alex Kane

UUP leader, Doug Beattie, MC.

Leaker not priority for ‘spooked’ UUP - Alex Kane

Alex Kane

NI Protocol: ‘Unionist tension today feels like 1998 repeating itself’

Christians are now the oldest average age among all main religious groups in England and Wales

Northern Ireland churches can expect to follow England

UTV presenter and journalist Aideen Kennedy, who has died at the age of 43 after a terminal illness. Her death came hours after she posted on social media that she was receiving palliative care

Funeral of former TV presenter Aideen Kennedy held today

Protesters at an anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Ballymena, County Antrim on April 30, 2022. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

'Non-unionists should set aside Brexit anger and focus on solutions'

Northern Ireland is trending in a darker direction, concludes Professor James Waller in his book 'A Troubled Sleep Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland'

Alex Kane: We're ignoring problems that could propel us back to horrors of past

Peter Robinson is a former leader of the DUP and first minister of Northern Ireland

Peter Robinson: Vaccine passports are better for hospitality than being shut

Alex Kane: After 20 years as a News Letter columnist, goodbye and thank you

Westminster is at best neutral while Dublin energetically pursues Irish unification

Our new book tries to fill the gap in expression of unionist views

Alex Kane: Hume and Adams gave unionism a lesson in getting a message across

Alex Kane: Mainstream unionism isn’t listening to many other unionist voices

Alex Kane: Unionism’s fight is with Boris Johnson, not the protocol

Alex Kane: Unionists might have to learn to live with the protocol

Alex Kane cites Graham Spencer’s assumption that the threat of republican violence has gone: but for Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson, pictured, it hasn’t

Alex Kane’s criticism of loyalism is unfair — the LCC is right on the protocol

Alex Kane: Loyalism should beware a retreat to its bad old ways

Alex Kane: Unionism must find a way to make Boris Johnson listen
My problem with Boris Johnson is that I have enormous difficulty trusting him to protect my interests as a unionist in Northern Ireland: or to protect my citizenship of the United Kingdom.

Letter to the editor

British intelligence used IRA and stupid loyalists to destroy unionist people

Alex Kane: Lots of questions, but no easy answers for unionism

Alex Kane: The UUP needs to define the sort of party it really is

Alex Kane: Steve Aiken is a decent man, but not what the UUP wanted or needed

Alex Kane: We’re too stuck in past to even consider an amnesty

Alex Kane: The DUP has been betrayed by its own stupidity as much as by the Tori...

Alex Kane: The survival of the Belfast Agreement can’t be taken for granted

Alex Kane: Loyalism has been failed, and mostly by mainstream unionism

Mash Direct introduced three flavours of mash-infused ice cream

Did you fall for any of these April Fools’ Day pranks?

Alex Kane: DUP deep in crisis mode and with no easy way out

Letter to the editor

Ireland wasted opportunity to unburden itself of NI’s constitutional squabble
A letter from Micheal O’Cathail:

Alex Kane: ‘Dreary steeples’ is what we do best — and worst

Alex Kane: It is a grim reality of NI that Arlene had to meet loyalists

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who now writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

PM must use his moral core to solve the Irish Sea border

Alex Kane: Why even a moderate like Dermot is right to be angry at the mess we f...

Letter to the editor

Alex Kane’s voice seems to go unheard by unionist politicians

Alex Kane: Unionism needs to speak, and think, with one voice

Alex Kane: Northern Ireland’s hybrid status might, ultimately, help the Union

Alex Kane: Boris Johnson needs to up his game in defence of Union

Alex Kane: Battleground for the Union could be in our coffee shops

Letter to the editor

Alex Kane is right again

Alex Kane: Getting angry has never done unionism any favours

Alex Kane: Transfer tests are another totally avoidable mess by the Executive

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Letter to the editor

As Alex Kane says, British leaders have no sympathy for our unionist cause

Alex Kane: I’ll be glad to see the back of 2020, but have been quite pleased to ...

Alex Kane: Yes, restrictions are inconvenient but are a necessary price to pay

Alex Kane: Why unionism is stuck with its age-old problem

Alex Kane: It is absurd to think terror groups will resolve legacy, but the gove...

Alex Kane: Only the voters can sort out our Executive mess

Alex Kane: Voluntary coalition looks as far away now as ever

Alex Kane: Nothing at all funny about wretched pantomime at Stormont

Alex Kane: Donald Trump may have lost, but his influence will remain

Alex Kane: We parents are wondering what will happen to our transfer year childr...

Alex Kane: Note to politicians – we have been living with the virus for eight mo...

Alex Kane: Arlene Foster is assailed with problems, from inside and outside the ...

Alex Kane: This unionist has little hope for a brighter future

Alex Kane: Gerry Kelly tweet a sign of growing Sinn Fein frustration at stalling...

Alex Kane: Unionism needs to work out what it means and stands for