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Editorial: Iran war is just one of many reasons UK families are struggling

Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant rejects claims UK ‘pandering’ to Irish government

The Jarrow Crusaders applied pressure to the elite across the political spectrum and within time secured assistance to the unemployed and the sick

The Jarrow March failed in its immediate aims but welfare reforms later followed

Morning View

Editorial: Touching tribute to all who served throughout the Troubles

Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant speaking during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Bryant thanks people who kept Northern Ireland functioning during the Troubles

Morning View

Editorial: Burnham has the wit to dampen nationalist hopes

Newly confirmed Labour Party leader Andy Burnham has a selfie taken as he leaves after speaking with local stakeholders and party supporters about his plan to deliver good growth in every postcode across the country, during a visit to Gravesend Town Pier in Kent. The former Greater Manchester mayor, who returned to Westminster last month as Makerfield MP, will take over as prime minister and enter No 10 on Monday. Picture date: Friday July 17, 2026.

DUP leader urges Burnham to break from Starmer's 'failed agenda'

Andy Burnham has been a long standing public supporter of our campaign to stop the suppression of Labour Party candidates in Northern Ireland

Letter: ‘Missing fact’ from Ruth in her Burnham column

Polling seems to suggest that most people think Stormont is doing a bad job, Unionists should say they are not taking part

Letter: Unionism should quit Stormont, return to pre Donaldson u-turn stance

Andy Burnham is poised to launch a bid to become the next Labour prime minister

Letter: Burnham election good news for NI

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Lady Victoria Starmer outside 10 Downing Street, as he announced his resignation. Pic: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Prime Minister's resignation an 'opportunity to get UK back on track' - DUP

Andy Burnham has previously favoured standing Labour candidates in Northern Ireland

Owen Polley: Burnham may not be any better for NI than Starmer

Northern Ireland Education Minister Paul Givan addresses the media in the Great Hall at Stormont regarding Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's newly announced measures to protect children online. Under-16s will be banned from a range of social media and the Government will take "world leading" action on gaming and live streaming platforms so strangers will not be able to contact children. Picture: Liam McBurney, PA Wire

O’Neill questions timing of social media ban for under-16s

One of Belfast’s most influential early labour figures, Alexander Bowman, is to be commemorated with a blue plaque recognising his contribution to trade unionism, workers’ rights and radical politics in Ireland

Blue plaque to commemorate radical Belfast workers’ champion

On October 7 2023, Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,000 people in southern Israel - it mustn't be forgotten how barbaric that day was

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Hamas attack was savage, yet Ireland demonises Israel

Kemi Badenoch said the UK should exploit its advantage of being outside the EU. Picture: BBC

Rehashing Brexit ‘shows Labour don’t have a plan’
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said that rehashing the Brexit debate is a sign that the Labour Party “does not have a plan for this country”.
By Georgia Bates, Press Association

Morning View

Editorial: PM might go but no likely successor looks much better

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski is an anti-Zionist Jew

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Time for us all to show support for our Jewish neighbours

Sir Keir Starmer’s priority seems to be managing Labour malcontents

Owen Polley: A strong PM would hold firm line on immigration

Morning View

Editorial: It is essential that there are examinations in secondary schools

Unionism must put forward a strong argument for keeping the Union with GB in order to win a border poll

Letter: ‘Northern Irish’ voters will be poll deciders

Morning View

Editorial: Keir Starmer is not up to the demanding role of being prime minister

Sir Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party has survived but his top team has undergone yet another reset

Letter: Inexperienced Labour Party in power

Morgan McSweeney who has quit as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff after facing pressure in the Lord Peter Mandelson scandal.

Morgan McSweeney steps down as Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff amid Mandelson row

The reopening of inquests, civil and criminal cases will pull aging veterans back into court (Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye)

Alex Burghart: If need be, we’ll scrap Labour legacy plan

Morning View

Editorial: Labour Party weakness in government is on full display today

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Picture: House of Commons/PA

Ben Lowry: NI shares Reeves fantasy of good services without paying for it
Northern Ireland can seem to me to be a microcosm for wider problems in the western world.
Ben Lowry

The Metropolitan Police arrests several farmers after their tractors brough central London to a standstill on Wednesday.

NI farmers at protest which brought central London to standstill

Labour leader Ivana Bacik

Ivana Bacik: 'Irish Labour is a republican party'

Catherine Connolly takes over from Michael D. Higgins at a ceremony at Dublin Castle.

Catherine Connolly to be inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president

Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly in Rathfarnham Castle Park during her campaign

Catherine Connolly: The ‘underdog’ Galway runner hoping to win Aras race

The ID plan concerns an issue that is reserved to Westminster, rather than devolved to Stormont, and it proposes a new responsibility, central to British citizenship

Owen Polley: Unionists must avoid any hint of ‘place apartism’ from rest of UK

Morning View

Editorial: Hilary Benn is wrong - NI can and should quit the ECHR

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 30, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Hilary Benn brands Nigel Farage's ECHR proposals 'reckless'

Paul Givan addressing the DUP conference on Saturday - where he took aim at the TUV.

Givan accuses the TUV of having no strategy and promoting 'myths' about Stormont

Nigel Farage has set out plans to leave the ECHR and deport 600,000 people if elected to government. Writing in today's News Letter, DUP MP Sammy Wilson says the Reform UK party leader should not listen to those who claim that his plans will undermine the Belfast Agreement

Sammy Wilson: Nigel Farage must resist nonsense arguments over the ECHR

St George's Cross flags fly from lampposts in York, in Yorkshire. Picture date: Sunday August 31, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Keir Starmer says 'I encourage flags - they are great symbols of our nation'

Morning View

Editorial: Keir Starmer has rewarded Hamas terrorism in his threat to Israel

Why do we assume that children deserve ever more rights? Things can go the other way - serious consideration has been given to raising the driving test age to 18

Ben Lowry: It is stupid to cut the voting age to older children aged 16

Morning View

Editorial: Indiscipline on money risks a global crisis

Letters to editor

Letter: VE Day has been a reminder of Britain’s past glory

Morning View

Editorial: The UK must drill, frack and expand its nuclear power

An empty runway at Heathrow Airport on Friday due to the closure of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation. Longt-term the airport could be closed and the runway areas turned into luxury housing, then a new airport built near the Thames. Pic: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: There is still - just - time to create a hub airport in London and NI

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and shadow NI Secretary Alex Burghart attended the Northern Ireland Conservatives conference in Belfast on Saturday.

NI Tories call to 'rewire, reprogram and reboot the UK state and economy'

Attorney General Lord Hermer has been the focus of negatives headlines for the Labour government in recent weeks. He has faced questions about how his previous work – including representing former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams – could result in possible conflicts of interest in his government work

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Human rights lawyers might be next in any new Labour purge

Richard Hermer is an old friend and colleague of Sir Keir Starmer - both ‘lefty lawyers’. He made his reputation taking cases against the state

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Hermer needs to watch his back

We can only wait and hope that Donald Trump doesn’t head the world into a major disaster, writes Philip McGarry

Philip McGarry: Trump election reflects global trend of identity politics

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Doug Beattie, who speaks for the party on justice policy.

Government accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ over Adams compensation ruling

Morning View

Editorial: Political refusal to take hard decisions causes problems in services

PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 3/1/2025: A man walks his dog along a snow covered lane in the Sperrin Mountains today. More snow is forecast for the weekend. PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Labour 'abandoned its conscience' over winter fuel payments as cold snap bites

Harland & Wolff's imposing iconography has been part of the Belfast skyline for over fifty years in the form of its two giant cranes. It is a part of the fabric of the city - a way of life

Letter: Survival of H&W is about more than finance

Letters to editor

Letter: The impending hardship for many is lost on affluent Westminster

Northern Ireland is particularly vulnerable to this tax because land is so pricey here, even compared to wealthy southern England. The change has caused huge concern, and farmers filled the Eikon Centre at Balmoral Park

Ben Lowry: Ten thoughts about the farm inheritance tax row in relation to NI

The Labour Party has broken virtually every election promise made to the people since coming to power, writes Edward Mitchell

Letter: Promises, promises...

The Sperrin Mountains

Sammy Wilson: Sperrins have become 'industrialised' by wind power

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