Britain seemed to have turned a corner on immigration after Brexit. Then October 7th happened
The scale and intensity of the protests that followed have caused a backlash against both immigration and the UK’s four million Muslim citizens. Tentative progress on understanding Islam in Britain has been thrown into reverse
How to talk about a united Ireland: Say little and set up a committee
Nothing in the report by the latest all-party Oireachtas committee is contentious because avoiding contention is the point
The difference between Simon Harris and Leo Varadkar on UK-Irish relations goes beyond tone
And it works both ways. Harris’s warmth towards the UK is being rewarded with a softening of Keir Starmer’s stance on a Border poll
Unionism has welcomed Labour’s apparently inevitable win, but nationalists are already milking it
The next UK government’s spending policy could lead to a boon for Stormont parties thanks to the oddities of devolutionary accounting
Northerners look on the Republic’s motorways with envy – but tolls are a bridge too far
Newton Emerson: Toll roads and Northern Ireland: as so often at Stormont, everybody knows what should be done but nobody will step forward to do it.
Larne gas cavern project a victim of green nimbyism and North’s administrative deadlock
Gas storage saga has been dragging on for years for facility that should have been operational in 2022 and which would have helped following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Can Sinn Féin pull off its left-right, North-South balancing act?
The party may move economically left and socially right in the Republic - but it needs to stay the course in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s poultry industry must be forced to clean up its act
A BBC investigation found Moy Park breached legal limits on effluent discharge hundreds of times since 2017 within the catchment of Lough Neagh
Some claims about the cost of a united Ireland don’t stack up
These are not harmless notions to drop into public discourse from the top of an ivory tower. Everyone involved should take more care
Why Caoimhe Archibald is the rising star of Northern politics
Sinn Féin’s Minister of Finance is reinforcing a message the party wants to send to voters North and South — it can be trusted in office
Northern Ireland is already a ‘sanctuary city’ in the UK – it could yet become one in Europe
If Brussels were to allow Rwanda-type schemes elsewhere in the EU, London could say this permitted a similar scheme across the UK, yet a court in Belfast could disagree
There’s an obvious solution to the migration row: compatible national identity cards for Ireland and Britain
Rights groups who raised valid objections to the intrusiveness of identity cards need to accept that ship has sailed - the alternative is Kafkaesque bureaucracy and racial profiling
Rwanda immigration law may turn out to be another Brexit
The destabilising impact on Irish politics looks like Brexit all over again, only with tides of humanity instead of shipments of bacon
Battle lines are being drawn in the North over sex education and hate crimes
After two years of dreary wrangling to restore devolution, most observers are glad of the diversion
Simon Harris was right. Many southerners know London or Paris better than Belfast
Figures suggest a substantial share of the southern population may never have been north of the Border