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Unionists became second class citizens under Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal

Letter: Damage from Boris years needs to be corrected

Guest Speaker Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP pictured speaking at the 2018 DUP annual conference in Belfast. He said he would never support a border in the Irish Sea. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Letter: Assurances over border poll mean nothing

Andy Burnham prepares to become prime minister on Monday

Boris Johnson’s and Rishi Sunak’s advice for incoming PM Andy Burnham

Brexit negotiator Lord Frost believes current arrangements for Northern Ireland can’t last. The Irish Sea border is a virus that can eat away indefinitely at our Union with Great Britain

Owen Polley: Landmark Brexit anniversary is reminder that NI was left behind

Many people believe that Nigel Farage and many within Reform represent a form of English nationalism which does not necessarily place the preservation of the Union at its heart

Letter: Still sceptical of Reform’s stance on the Union

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pictured during his Monday speech in London, which was widely seen as a last-ditch effort to retain the support of his party. Today, multiple ministers have resigned from under him (James Manning/PA Wire)

Expected exit of PM 'offers a chance for Labour to drop its Troubles Bill'

Morning View

Editorial: DUP is right to admit Stormont deal was over-sold

As leader of the Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch has branded the 2050 net zero target "impossible" and "catastrophic" for family finances

Letter: Badenoch's net zero vow won’t come to fruition

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives an interview at the Newcastle United Foundation Community Centre in Newcastle. Picture date: Thursday April 23, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Mandelson allegations politically motivated: Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer in Paris on Friday for a summit to facilitate shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Yet at home he seems battered by events. Pic: Tom Nicholson/PA

Ben Lowry: Like many PMs, Starmer seems to have been almost destroyed by office

Morning View

Editorial: Of course a nation as weak as the UK sees asylum fraud

Boris Johnson has said that Ukraine should be an independent country

Letter: Weak leaders helped bring about war in Ukraine

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A poem to mark 5 years of the Irish Sea border

Almost a decade has passed since the vote to leave the EU, in June 2016

Letter: You can’t oppose sea border and implement EU rule

Morning View

Editorial: The NIO has long seemed almost neutral on Northern Ireland

Stevan Patterson with his 1946 Ferguson TE20 that he hopes to have restored for its 80th birthday next year but the Sea Border is making that very difficult.

Sea Border now obstructing Ferguson tractor restoration
The Sea Border introduced between Northern Ireland and GB after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal with the EU has caused a long list of problems. To this ever increasing damaging list of issues can be added the obstructing of the restoration of a vintage tractor.
Stevan Patterson

Margaret Thatcher and Garret Fitzgerald signing Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough Castle 40 years ago on November 15 1985. Three years before she had sent troops 8,000 miles to restore British rule over the Falklands. Picture Pacemaker Press Intl

Letter: I will never forgive Mrs Thatcher's betrayal of NI's position in UK

Anyone selling poppies in NI this year will be required to have EU-mandated signs and stickers

Letter: Let’s stop pretending the Union is intact

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch gives her keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Wednesday. The overall conference was quieter but not dead. Pic: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: A quieter Tory event, for a party that's moved right – even on NI

Political commentator Dr John Coulter.

Kirk killing should be springboard for UK Coalition of the Right

The launch of Stephen Walker's book 'David Trimble: Peacemaker' (published by Gill Books) at the Great Hall in Queen's University on Tuesday evening (September 9). The event was introduced by the BBC journalist Mark Simpson, and guests included Lord Trimble's widow Lady (Daphne) Trimble. Photographs by Andrew Towe, Parkway Photography

New book reveals Lord Trimble's 'gracious' gesture towards former rival

More than 1,000 pupils in Florida, Philadelphia, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indiana, Texas and Connecticut. Educators say it is proving a powerful way to spark curiosity in science whilst keeping children entertained

Ad Feature Children’s book Making Science Magical reaches #1 on Amazon in US & UK

Morning View

Editorial: Badenoch and Truss both right about blunders

Morning View

Editorial: Our long article today looks at the enduring Irish Sea border

The DUP lost seats to several parties in last year’s general election

Ross Hussey: DUP achieved power but at what cost to the Union?

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has paid tribute to Tory grandee Lord Tebbit

Norman Tebbit dead: Top Tories on 'hero of conservatism'

Morning View

Editorial: Windsor structure has been kept as insurance for EU
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The military fly past passes over The Mall and Buckingham Palace, central London, at the end of the procession marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day

Letter: Honour spirit of VE Day and make all UK citizens equal

Mr Benn talks of benefits to NI in an EU deal but we’ve been down this route many times before

Owen Polley: More wildly optimistic claims about the Irish Sea border

Thousands of anti-immigration protesors took part in a rally on April 26, 2025 in Dublin. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Lord Empey's concerns on ‘out of control’ immigration

Morning View

Editorial: Ever more obvious border in Irish Sea shows it is far from gone

Ulster Unionist MLA Steve Aiken sits on Stormont's Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee.

NIO showing 'degree of delusion worthy of Boris Johnson' over sea border - Aiken

Leo Varadkar held the post of taoiseach from 2017 until 2020, returning to the role in 2022 before resigning in 2024. In the House of Commons today, TUV leader Jim Allister accused Mr Varadkar of 'partitioning' the UK during the Brexit negotiations

Jim Allister: Varadkar ‘partitioned’ UK by pushing border in Brexit talks

Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On tells the story of those who lost loved ones to Covid-19 in the pandemic

Monday TV Choice: Love and Loss - The Pandemic 5 Years On (BBC1, 8.30pm)

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch addressing the Northern Ireland Tory conference in Belfast. She left them in a conundrum

Owen Polley: Badenoch's misleading statement on Windsor Framework has two flaws

Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a Mark 3 shoulder-launch Lightweight Multiple Launcher missile system at Thales in Belfast, during his visit to Northern Ireland for talks with Stormont parties in May 2022. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Archive/PA Images

Thales: Who is the firm behind Belfast's £1.6bn Ukraine missile deal?

Morning View

Editorial: President Trump's disgraceful remarks about Zelensky and Ukraine

Keir Starmer had the gall to lecture unionists on the threat of a trade border with the Republic of Ireland. Meanwhile, unionists joined with nationalists against Benn’s justified remarks on funding rather than focusing on the Irish Sea border

Owen Polley: Jim Allister's mutual enforcement has unfortunately been shelved

Morning View

Editorial: Hilary Benn's belated enthusiasm for the DUP-Tory deal

Former prime minister Boris Johnson

Tim Gracey: Why do senior public servants dominate New Year Honours list?

DUP deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly.

Little Pengelly: opponents 'misrepresented' what the DUP said about its deal

Morning View

Letter: It is good to see Joe Biden give long-range missiles to Ukraine

London will want to implore President Trump to tread carefully on the issue of Ukraine, writes John Gemmell

Letter: We care about the US – we’ll need to work together

Can Donald Trump return to the White House?

Tuesday TV choice: America Decides: US Presidential Election (Channel 4, 10pm)

Morning View

Editorial: Irish Sea border vote at Stormont puts unionists in predicament

It was Boris Johnson who eventually agreed to the Irish Sea border and implemented it. Pro-Union politicians here have reacted relatively timidly to a serious and unnecessary dilution of their British status

Owen Polley: Unionists are certainly not wallowing in self-pity

Morning View

Editorial: Another major success for an outstanding NI manufacturer, Wrightbus

US vice president Kamala Harris met with president Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House recently, where she talked about 'fundamental principles'

Letter: Shame our politicians don’t think like Harris

The current DUP leader, Gavin Robinson, said the protocol would be almost invisible by the autumn. Well, the leaves and the conkers are falling, Gavin, and nothing has changed - it’s still there, writes Harry Patterson

Letter: If only photo opportunities could solve Union woes

Morning View

Editorial: Does Sue Gray now have even more say over Northern Ireland

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently stated that a united Ireland should be an 'objective' and not just an 'aspiration'

Letter: Leo Varadkar should mind his own business

Morning View

Editorial: Yet more claims of pushiness from Keir Starmer's advisor, Sue Gray

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Sue Gray. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Dorries claims Sue Gray asked Boris for top NIO job

President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington last week. He is still in office but has dropped his presidential re-election bid

Letter: Joe Biden needs to leave office now

The Union flag and the EU flag flying from the same mast

King's Speech: Easier for UK to potentially align with some EU rules

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