Success on housing in North could be Sinn Féin’s route to government in SouthParty on serious manoeuvres as its Minister outlines social housing reform in StormontThu Nov 5 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Money talks and waffle walks in Shared Island initiativeIf Republic really aspires to unity, it needs to show North the colour of its moneyThu Oct 29 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: The North is not the reason there cannot be all-Ireland zero-CovidThe Government would not be pursuing zero-Covid strategy even in a united IrelandThu Oct 22 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Covid decisions highlight Stormont's design flawsSystem may not be ideal but aiming for all-party consensus in a pandemic is absurdThu Oct 15 2020 - 00:26
Newton Emerson: America’s real role in peace process has been leaning on Sinn FéinAny reversal of US policy due to Brexit should be handled with careThu Oct 8 2020 - 00:01
Bloody Sunday decision on soldiers shows limits of ‘truth or justice’ modelNewton Emerson: Approach does not satisfy the bereaved or resolve legacy issuesThu Oct 1 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Coronavirus has been good for Northern politicsVoter behaviour is forcing two big parties to get their act together against the virusThu Sep 24 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Brussels is threatening the North's food supplyBoth the EU and UK are cynically using Northern Ireland as a bargaining chipThu Sep 17 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: London seeks to push North away to try to keep EU rules at bayBoris Johnson’s government will always choose its vision of Brexit over North’s place in unionThu Sep 10 2020 - 01:00
Political cowardice in Stormont adding to Republic’s electricity billsMedia pandering to tinfoil hat nonsense delaying new North-South interconnectorThu Sep 3 2020 - 00:01
Newton Emerson: Ireland, North and South, will miss Phil Hogan’s voice on BrexitEU trade commissioner had shown he was able to see the issue on an Irish and British scaleThu Aug 27 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: North’s grading mess shows pointlessness of GCSEsDitching exams at 16 could let Northern Ireland transform its faltering school systemThu Aug 20 2020 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: The North’s attitude to university fees is causing a brain drainA policy designed to help young people get into university has had the opposite effectThu Aug 13 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont was not the centre of John Hume’s visionThe North-South Ministerial Council is where he hoped the future would be builtThu Aug 6 2020 - 00:01
Newton Emerson: Fading myth of the North’s world-beating schoolsMiddle-classes guard ‘their’ grammar schools, but a third of children leave school with few or no qualificationsThu Jul 30 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: The reality is Sinn Féin still needs to be house-trainedIt is in everyone’s interests to clean up the ‘republican movement’Thu Jul 23 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Socially distanced Twelfth saw Orange Order finally ditch the rabbleOrganisation does not organise bonfires, put up flags or run flute bands but has struggled to disassociate itself from these practicesThu Jul 16 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Funeral raises questions over how much SF president McDonald is in chargeNorth’s parties are tired of constantly second-guessing shadowy forces behind Sinn FéinThu Jul 9 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: A unionist-free Seanad? Nobody minds reallyGovernment’s omission is merely an understandable outworking of politicsThu Jul 2 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Why we need to talk about Dublin and BelfastForget well-meaning waffle, could the North and South administrations work together?Thu Jun 25 2020 - 06:30
Newton Emerson: Northern Irish Greens’ fingerprints all over programme for governmentTheir support will be crucial in getting the deal over the line with party membersThu Jun 18 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: The North’s approach to difficult statues is adding rather than removingNone of the city’s handful of landmark statues is now thought worth fighting overThu Jun 11 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Brussels playing games with Irish sea borderHard line on checks at odds with EU commitment to peace processThu Jun 4 2020 - 01:54
Newton Emerson: UK is failing the people of Hong Kong for a second timeAssertive diplomacy with China would be more use than talk of extending nationalityThu May 28 2020 - 01:27
Newton Emerson: The real U-turn on a Brexit sea border has been by the DUPThe unionist party has performed a reverse ferret worthy of Boris Johnson himselfThu May 21 2020 - 02:05
Newton Emerson: North’s lockdown exit plan marks a big leap by Sinn FéinSF-DUP truce at Stormont will come under pressure as pandemic measures are easedThu May 14 2020 - 02:00
Why Northerners will take a big interest in all-Ireland Green PartyNewton Emerson: Greens make up significant part of new unaligned bloc in NorthThu May 7 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Careless politics over EU Belfast office is inexcusableRow over facility to help police sea border splits along green and orange linesThu Apr 30 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists surprisingly interested in a ‘united island’FF-FG ambivalence makes prospect of meaningful regional autonomy possibleThu Apr 23 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: How ‘behavioural fatigue’ is shaping Covid-19 responseLifting lockdowns will be contentious. What role should behavioural science play?Thu Apr 16 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont to Dublin - about that money you promised usStormont parties may soon want Dublin to put a bit more of its money where its mouth isThu Apr 9 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont must agree to disagree for powersharing to survive crisisDifferent approaches to testing North and Republic will cause political tensionThu Apr 2 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill are a credible double actThere is unprecedented public appetite for leadership of First and Deputy First MinisterThu Mar 26 2020 - 09:18
Newton Emerson: Sectarian split over school closures feels ominousCoronavirus: It makes you wonder how bad things could get if everyone really fell outThu Mar 19 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: ‘Cash for ash’ inquiry report priced into Stormont alreadyNew-found politeness in politics could be RHI report’s main achievementThu Mar 12 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin will not be told what to call the RepublicTwenty years of governing without saying Northern Ireland shows party is not about to changeThu Mar 5 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Letting IRA exist just enough to not exist taints politicsReport saying army council has influence over Sinn Féin came about as way to prevent collapse of StormontThu Feb 27 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Under what conditions would FF or FG share power with SF?The Republic has perhaps one more electoral cycle to normalise Mary Lou McDonald’s partyThu Feb 20 2020 - 02:00
Sinn Féin success nothing for unionists to worry about – in theoryUnification is still why everyone in Mary Lou McDonald’s party gets up in the morningThu Feb 13 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Republic needs to steer Sinn Féin endlessly towards politicsNewton Emerson: Party’s new southern supporters unaware of what they have let over the thresholdSun Feb 9 2020 - 18:37
Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin is not a radical partyThe party's record in power in the North is characterised by cautionThu Feb 6 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Mind your language – unionists are now a raceUlster Scots win in Stormont deal could be considered preparation for defeatThu Jan 30 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Ruling Sinn Féin out of power in Dublin infantilises StormontSF has no incentive to take hard decisions until it is in power both sides of BorderThu Jan 23 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Cynical self-interest may be the making of StormontOpposing parties can find common cause if they can get past cargo-cult mentalityThu Jan 16 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists detect huge waves of anti-British sentiment in RIC falloutAttempts to respect a shared history, while well intentioned, can be aggressiveThu Jan 9 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Arlene Foster’s leadership of the DUP has been a catastropheLeadership changes could loom for both parties as centrist trajectories appear not to be workingThu Jan 2 2020 - 07:13
Newton Emerson: Push to restore Stormont must not ignore realitySinn Féin and the DUP are ending their grandstanding in a new political eraThu Dec 19 2019 - 06:00
Story of North election was Alliance surge at expense of unionist and nationalist blocsThe Democrat Unionist Party lost one-sixth of its voters and Sinn Féin almost a quarterSat Dec 14 2019 - 17:34
Newton Emerson: Why should the DUP not take advantage if it wins enough seats in the election?SDLP MPs could conceivably be asked to help Labour into Downing StreetThu Dec 12 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont’s last collapse a warning of its nextDUP and Sinn Féin seem to have inability to take tough devolved spending decisionsThu Dec 5 2019 - 08:13
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