Imposing abortion laws on Northern Ireland from Westminster belies claims to support democracy

MPs yesterday debated extending the abortion law in Northern Ireland. You can read the Guardian report here. It was interesting that the entire article was

Why Northern Ireland should not have the Irish Referendum result imposed on them by Westminster

Shami Chakrabarti has been on Radio 4’s Today programme discussing the Irish Referendum result, insisting that Theresa May should impose the same decision on Northern Ireland.

People are focusing attention on the wrong things in the DUP deal

The Guardian yesterday wrote a woeful article about the DUPs links to Ulster Resistance (you can read that article here). I have already discussed the lazy

The Supreme Court upholds N. Irish abortion law, which is a boon for peace

If the DUP entering into a confidence and supply deal with the Conservative Party shows us anything, it is the depths of political ignorance within

There are major problems with the Con-DUP pact, but please let’s stop calling the DUP terrorist sympathisers

The results are in and the General Election 2017 returned a hung parliament. The Conservatives have formed a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party. You

Reporting on Martin McGuinness’ death says something about modern sensibilities

News rolled in yesterday that Martin McGuinness had died. You can read reports here, here and here amongst others. Most of my academic work has been

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