David Cameron

Devolution encourages assembly politicians to blame Westminster whenever they need to make difficult decisions. And Irish nationalists always have an incentive to allege bad treatment by the government and create another grievance to attack our place in the UK. Pic Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Owen Polley: ​Stormont makes no serious contribution to welfare debate

Morning View

Editorial: ​Scotland shows how separatists just never rest

A church service at St Mark's Ballymash in Lisburn

Gulf between religious practise in NI and Scotland widens further

According to date from Scotland’s 2022 census, 51.1% of people responded “no religion” – up from 36.7% in 2011

More than half of Scots have no religion, 2022 census finds

Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron leaving no 10 Downing Street, London.

Northern Ireland arrangements to be discussed at Brussels post-Brexit talks

Letters to editor

Letter: Gibraltar is set to suffer the same as NI, when EU becomes the rulemaker

William and Kate are said to be 'enormously touched' and 'extremely moved' by the public’s warmth and support following Kate’s cancer announcement

William and Kate ‘extremely moved’ by public support after cancer announcement

The Prince of Wales drives away from the London Clinic, in central London, where the Princess of Wales is recovering after undergoing successful abdominal surgery. She was admitted to The London Clinic on Tuesday for the planned procedure

William visits Kate in hospital as she recovers from abdominal surgery

One of four RAF Typhoon aircraft taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to join the US-led coalition conducting air strikes against military targets in Yemen.

Iran and its allies need to 'cease and desist': Grant Shapps

David Cameron (Getty)

Lords demand answers from David Cameron about NI / GB drift

UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron and the EU Vice President Maroš Šefčovič met on Wednesday, where they discussed "implementation" of the Windsor Framework. Photo: European Commission.

London “not serious” about restoring equal citizenship – Allister

Letters to editor

Letter: A lord should know better than to support the invaded then the invader

Suella Braverman, who was sacked as Home Secretary by Rishi Sunak recently after she was blamed for inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured leftwing protestors

Sandra Chapman wonders if Suella Braverman could sort out the problems in Ulster

Morning View

Editorial: Sacking of Braverman signals cabinet retreat to a failed consensus

DUP's Gavin Robinson says the party is focused on what it wants to achieve in restoring NI's place in the UK internal market.

DUP: Ball is in the government's court

Former prime minister David Cameron leaving Downing Street, London, after being appointed as Foreign Secretary in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ministerial reshuffle following the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman. Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

NI parties critical of Cameron appointment

Ulster Unionists, TUV and Alliance critical of Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle which has brought David Cameron back from the political grave.

David Thompson

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie has reacted to the sacking of Suella Braverman and appointment of David Cameron. Pictured here at Stormont Castle in Belfast in June.

UUP react to 'turmoil' at Westminster

Screen grab taken from PA video of former prime minister David Cameron arriving at 10 Downing Street, London, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is conducting a ministerial reshuffle following the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman. Picture date: Monday November 13, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Reshuffle. Photo credit should read: Sam Hall/PA Wire

Braverman sacked as former PM returns to government

Morning View

Editorial: Rishi Sunak's move to the right is appropriate but overdue

Former head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake has died. (Photo by Tayfun Salci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Morning View

Editorial: Integrated and shared schooling is not the same thing

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer publishes tax details

Rishi Sunak leads a Conservative and Unionist Party which had a manifesto which promised "our laws would be made in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, and interpreted by judges across the United Kingdom, not in Luxembourg". Photo: Ben Stansall/PA Wire

Letter: If Sunak says rule taking is good for NI then it must be for rest of UK

Foyle MP Colum Eastwood lays a floral tribute at the Bloody Sunday monument during yesterday's Bloody Sunday Annual Remembrance Service Pic: Lorcan Doherty/Presseye

Nobel Prize could be given to 'all innocent Troubles victims'

Bob Dylan performs on stage (Image: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Folk-rock veteran Bob Dylan records tribute for victims of Bloody Sunday

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

Screengrab from BBC News of Huw Edwards reporting on the health of Queen Elizabeth II. BBC One has suspended its regular programming schedule following the announcement that the Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral.

BBC1 suspends scheduled programming as concerns mount over Queen’s health

The main BBC broadcasting channel has suspended it regular programming to keep the public updated on news from Balmoral.

Mark Rainey

News Letter editorial

Say what others won’t: that Bloody Friday was a massacre carried out by the IRA

Live Derry Girls finale described in House of Commons as 'brilliant'

Funeral order of service for Jim Flanagan, former Sunday Life and Ballymena Guardian editor, who died 19th April 2022, aged 61. Loving husband of Colette, father of James and Suzanne. Picture by Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Ben Lowry: Fond memories of my former editor Jim Flanagan

Doug Beattie’s task in reviving the UUP will have been made more difficult by last week’s furore over his use of social media

Owen Polley: Beattie tweets furore makes it harder for UUP to have good election

Irwin Armstrong

Former top NI Tory: Party shouldn’t have happened

News Letter editorial

Boris Johnson will struggle to recover from admission about Downing St gathering

Writers in 2010 thought the Union would be safe in 2021 but didn’t consider it might be only technically so. What does it matter if the Union is secure if concessions to Irish nationalism are so wide-ranging that Northern Ireland is utterly unlike any other part of UK?

Ben Lowry: Essays in 2010 foresaw NI staying in UK but not change from within

Conservative MP David Amess who died after being stabbed several times at a surgery in his Southend West constituency. Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire

Tory MP David Amess dies after being stabbed in his Essex constituency

Tim McGarry, who writes a column for the News Letter every other Thursday.

Tim McGarry: Sir Jeffrey and I both got into trouble for Team GB tweets

Even if the decision to leave was wise, the way in which it has been implemented has been chaotic. Photo: Tolga AKMEN/AFP via Getty

Sam McBride: A broken Whitehall which knew more about China than about NI

David Cameron and Boris Johnson, seen together in late 2014 when Mr Cameron was prime minister and Mr Johnson mayor of London, both slid effortlessly through Eton and Oxford into stellar careers. But, their privilege and initial success followed parallel trajectories towards selfishness and error

Time to move beyond the errors of PMs Cameron and Johnson

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

Gary Donegan

North Belfast priest: Finucane family deserve the truth, but so do all other par...

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are facing a lawsuit over Test and Trace - here's...

News Letter editorial

London has a duty to balance legacy investigation into claims against the state,...

The former first minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson in his first News Letter column said unionists should prepare for a border poll

Ben Lowry: Just as Peter Robinson says, there is an urgent need to build argumen...

Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street following the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on September 15, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Boris Johnson’s controversial Internal Market...

A vote is read out in the House of Commons, London for the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which has cleared its first Commons hurdle after MPs approved giving it a second reading by 340 votes to 263, a majority of 77. Photo: PA Wire

Boris Johnson’s controversial internal market bill easily passes first stage in ...

Colin might feel like part of the family - but how well do you know him? (Photo: M&S)

13 things you (probably) didn't know about Colin the Caterpillar as the cake tur...

Inside the tunnels at Dalradian’s Co Tyrone site

The Tyrone gold mine should already be operating fully, putting much needed mone...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the furlough scheme as a response to economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A quarter of UK workers are now furloughed - and unemployment levels could rocke...

Boris Johnson's choice of name for son could mark out his future

Here's whether the Prime Minister will take time off after the birth of his baby...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is recuperating at his official country retreat after being discharged from hospital (Photo: Getty Images)

Here’s what you need to know about Chequers country estate - where Boris Johnson...

News Letter editorial

It is almost the norm now to be an older dad in Downing Street

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MoD loses its appeal against extra Bloody Sunday payout

Alex Kane: Idea of Sinn Fein in power in Dublin is not so fanciful

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