Newton Emerson: Irish fury over Frost seems aggravated by London taking unionism’s sideUK’s Brexit negotiator is just doing his job – negotiatingThu Oct 14 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Train-trams could put NDP on trackAll-Ireland rail project may be vision shared island unit desperately seeksThu Oct 7 2021 - 01:00
DUP so compromised by Brexit that tiny TUV is turning its tactics against itNewton Emerson: Out of the pan-unionism into the fire for desperate DUPThu Sep 30 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Academic rhetoric on NI is more dangerous than declined invitationIt is now common to hear the North referred to as a colony, with little care for what that impliesThu Sep 23 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Medicines issue risks confirming unionist suspicions on NI protocolReorienting medicine supply chains is not like a supermarket finding new sources of cheeseThu Sep 16 2021 - 01:00
Boris Johnson’s tax rise reveals a lopsided union that stirs resentmentNewton Emerson: Moving money about will not fix uneven devolutionary settlementThu Sep 9 2021 - 01:14
Unionist voters more interested in punishing DUP than beating Sinn FéinLatest poll shows Alliance surge is over as UUP gathers up liberal unionist votersThu Sep 2 2021 - 01:00
Northern Ireland has found its acceptable level of CovidStormont and public appear to have done all they are collectively willing to doThu Aug 26 2021 - 01:00
If the price of Irish unity was a new flag, would Sinn Féin agree to it?Newton Emerson: Unity advocates are ‘putting everything on the table’ then ducking under itThu Aug 19 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: What can save Belfast in the face of rising sea levels?City’s Harbour Estate, one-fifth of the conurbation’s surface area, is on reclaimed landThu Aug 12 2021 - 01:00
Governments, landowners and developers value their cosy nexusProposed planning gain tax aims to send clear message that things have changedThu Aug 5 2021 - 01:02
Newton Emerson: Let’s be realistic about cross-Border high-speed railPoliticians announce ambitious plans but rail experts provide the reality checkThu Jul 29 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont’s rejection of amnesty rings hollowNI parties miles apart on contentious issue, with little prospect of common groundThu Jul 22 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Painful debate lies ahead as North grapples with Troubles amnestyImmunity for testimony is one of at least half a dozen types of Troubles amnestyThu Jul 15 2021 - 00:51
Newton Emerson: EU deserves credit for realism not generosity over North protocolNI protocol is not immutable legal text that EU and fervent supporters proclaimThu Jul 8 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: SF, DUP want to avoid Stormont collapse after gauging popular moodAny public concern about protocol will be focused on stability of StormontThu Jul 1 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Donaldson must reconcile unionism to the protocolAs Sinn Féin paints itself as the responsible party, new DUP leader must spot the dangerThu Jun 24 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Poots’s big mistake was to move too fastDonaldson can carve himself three months to have a firm conversation with his partyMon Jun 21 2021 - 01:25
Newton Emerson: Impact for Ireland of UK-Australia deal goes far beyond foodIrish people will be torn between European and English-speaking worldsThu Jun 17 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Poots the odd presence in his Stormont teamDUP leader needs to get a grip on party’s message, morale and disciplineThu Jun 10 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: DUP set to appoint a Sinn Féin first ministerUnionism’s healthy internal revolution hands nationalists huge symbolic gainThu Jun 3 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Return to NI protocol needed to avoid disasterSeparate issues of smuggling and food safety being muddied by both sidesThu May 27 2021 - 01:08
Newton Emerson: Australia trade deal points to future for Northern IrelandDeal could result in best of both worlds for North’s agrifood industryThu May 20 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Scottish election result not good news for Irish nationalistsOutcome has highlighted difficulty of judging whether a referendum should be calledThu May 13 2021 - 01:15
Newton Emerson: amount of money trying to get into property is doomed to swamp supplyInvestors, landlords and owner-occupiers may all wish they had shared when they had the chanceThu May 6 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: DUP could prove its most destructive having cornered itselfFoster departing deeply conflicted party as she announces decision to step downThu Apr 29 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: DUP huff highlights problem of the ‘empty chair’Boycott of the North South Ministerial Council has potential to do real harmThu Apr 22 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: London and Dublin are making a problem of a solution‘Totality of relationships’ body is being turned into a controversy of its own rightThu Apr 15 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Compromise on Northern Ireland protocol may be neededLaw and order not enough to halt loyalist protests driven by crime and politicsThu Apr 8 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: North needs new policy on integrated educationOnly 65 of North’s 1,000 schools are integrated, covering just 7% of all pupilsThu Apr 1 2021 - 01:00
Jim O’Callaghan's united Ireland plan will be unpopular with FF base and Republic’s electorateMove represents brave step for a Fianna Fáil leadership contenderThu Mar 25 2021 - 01:00
When did we stop wanting a democratic China?Newton Emerson: The West has internalised idea that China’s system is as legitimate as any otherThu Mar 18 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: EU attitude to goods checks in North is unhelpfulIs bureaucratic intransigence behind Brussels’s quest for border enforcement?Thu Mar 11 2021 - 01:00
Northern Ireland's health system is bucklingFaith in system could simply melt away, with profound political consequencesThu Mar 4 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Minding the cross-Border vaccine gapRestriction differences between North and South are set to dwindle as roadmap appearsThu Feb 25 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Republic’s shared-equity housing scheme threatens to push up pricesBetter British ideas are available to copy that would not push up property pricesThu Feb 18 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Cross-Border finger-pointing is pointlessOpinion: We have come full circle on the Covid-19 politics of partitionThu Feb 11 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Unionism to squander opportunity presented by EU blunderDUP will sit on sidelines instead of lobbying for frictionless sea borderThu Feb 4 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Bad faith is testing Brexit’s house of cardsStructures put in place to govern post-Brexit EU-UK relations look unstable and confrontationalThu Jan 28 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont bemused by Republic’s stonewalling on Covid dataThe Republic has never taken cross-Border co-operation on Covid-19 seriouslyThu Jan 21 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: SF, DUP refuse to concede their atavistic nationalism a huge strategic errorA 'win' in a border poll is not likely in the next few years, so why demand one?Thu Jan 14 2021 - 01:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists have no choice but to make the Irish Sea border workPost-Brexit problems likely to be aggravations rather than a big crisisThu Jan 7 2021 - 05:00
Newton Emerson: Covid means North has to relearn dangers of having too much moneyUS diplomat Martha Pope ahead of her time with observations on excess funding in 1997Thu Dec 31 2020 - 05:00
Newton Emerson: English Channel disruption is the futureThe question for Ireland is whether its lorries and ferries will be waved through the barricadesThu Dec 24 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists facing citizenship conundrum after BrexitWho will a US company give the EU sales job to, an Irish or British passport holder?Thu Dec 17 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Foster’s lack of control over DUP is one of Brexit’s original sinsFirst Minister risks highlighting splits within her own party if she lauds sea border dealThu Dec 10 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists will not get desired balance from public inquiriesThe Troubles will be seen through landmark cases such as Pat Finucane and the La MonThu Dec 3 2020 - 01:15
Newton Emerson: Joe Biden’s Brexit remarks show an opportunity for unionismUS president-elect did not seem like someone yearning to push for difficult change in IrelandThu Nov 26 2020 - 00:00
Sinn Féin is still trying to wish away economic realities of a united IrelandNewton Emerson: Party is peddling frustrating nonsense about the UK subventionThu Nov 19 2020 - 00:00
EU reveals indifference as it takes its threat to North’s food supply to the wireCommission is oblivious to rare show of Stormont unityThu Nov 12 2020 - 00:00
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