Alex Swan

Peter Robinson, Lord Mayor of Belfast, pictured in November 1986 at a rally on the first anniversary of Anglo Irish agreement at City Hall where 200,000 people turned up

Letter: Huffing and puffing does little good

Treating the Union Flag with respect means not tying it to a lamppost where it remains until weather and time takes its toll

Letter: Treating the Union Flag with respect

Letters to editor

Letter: A multi party unionism has delivered nothing but advance republicans

Letters to editor

Letter: It is fanciful to think a single unionist party will increase the vote

Alliance Party leader and justice minister Naomi Long is currently on holiday, according to party sources. MLAs have only recently returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly after a two-month summer recess

Letter: Holidaying during assembly term is inexplicable

Various possible solutions have been put forward in a bid to maintain unionist MPs and retain Northern Ireland's place within the Union

Letter: Making Northern Ireland work is best way to secure the Union

The DUP lost two seats in this month's Westminster election, including North Antrim which it has held for 50 years

Letter: Unionism didn’t lose seats - the DUP did

The DUP seats weren’t lost due to a loss of support for the Union, but their handling of the protocol, and a failure to show any contrition for what were clearly mistakes

Letter: The Union is too important to be left solely in the care of politicians

Anti-protocol protestors gathered outside Larchfield Estate on Monday night before the DUP executive meeting began. Pic: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Letter: What’s the plan by those in the ‘never’ camp?

Following the signing of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, tens of thousands took to the streets of Belfast as part of the ‘Ulster Says No’ campaign

Letter: Unionists need to wake up

This summer marked 25 years since the Drumcree standoff. By refusing any compromise the Orange Order lost its image of invincibility, writes Alex Swan. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Letter: It's a choice of stubborn intransigence or compromise

Letters to editor

Letter: Some within unionism need a reality check

An impression of the new crematorium at Roselawn

Belfast City Council given planning permission for new crematorium at Roselawn

Letter to the editor

DUP should apologise for its role in the NI Protocol before criticising others

The Continuity IRA terrorists were detected in 2014 but convicted only in 2020

Matter of slow justice in NI should be addressed, as well as prison terms

Bobby Storey with Martin McGuinness at a protest on the Falls Road, west Belfast in 2014, over the arrest of Gerry Adams

When we are told that a veteran republican was committed to the peace process we...
With the passing of yet another leading republican, Bobby Storey we are told by their associates that they were committed to the peace process, the implication being that they should be judged peacemakers by history.
Alex Swan

Letter to the editor

EU-Irish demand for backstop might bring about the border it was designed to pre...

Letter to the editor

Zero compromise might actually be worse for Leavers

Dodds shows that he is out of touch

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