The previous article in this series closed by noting that Circular 2026/09 had made the right of withdrawal workable for the first time in forty years, but that the harder question — whether the ...

Last December, I wrote about fox hunting and political evasion and why I do not believe tradition alone justifies the organised pursuit and killing of a wild animal for pleasure. I wrote then about my ...

We all know the quotation from David Copperfield, the most impenetrable novel I had to study in school. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result ...

Last February the High Court ruled that Marie Anderson, the Police Ombudsman, had (as per this article in the Irish News written by Alan Erwin) … exceeded her legal powers in making findings of ...

Despite the ceasefire, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic. Every day has been a fight for survival for the people in Gaza. The collapse of the health system, coupled with ...

They pass by and look the other way. The Good Samaritan script recast as a dystopia of white Christian disregard for the indigenous Church in Palestine. Their presence is an inconvenient reality that ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.

Colin Murray is a Professor of Law at Newcastle University. The UK Supreme Court’s judgment last week in Dillon undermines the UK’s commitments in the Brexit deal. The decision, relating to the ...

As I write this, British cabinet ministers are gathering in Downing Street for what is surely the most fateful moment of Keir Starmer’s premiership. Yesterday, over 60 Labour backbencher MPs AND the ...

The pressure continues to pile on the Prime Minister as today his health secretary Wes Streeting announced that he has quit the cabinet, but has yet to launch a leadership challenge against Keir ...

Managing Editor of Slugger O'Toole. I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards ...

Party leaders react to local election results in GB On Saturday (10 May), The News Letter interviewed Stormont’s party leaders as they reacted to results of recent local elections in Scotland, England ...