Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Why would Nationalists hold up a united Ireland?
From Belfast, FRA HUGHES reports on a topsy-turvy and upside-down political mess with those supposedly in favour of uniting the island looking out for narrow electoral interests instead, as 100 years of 'Northern Ireland' approaches
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
AS Irish Republicans and Nationalists commemorate the centenary of Terence James MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in October 1920, the current Taoiseach of Ireland Michael Martin has ruled out a border poll on Irish reunification — while the former First Minister of the North of Ireland Peter Robinson calls on Unionism to prepare for the vote.
MacSwiney, the playwright, author and politician, had been arrested for sedition against the British military and political occupation of Ireland during the War of Independence and died after 74 days in London’s Brixton prison aged 41. His funeral in Cork was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. What would he make of his nation’s leaders today?
Taoiseach Martin, an elected Irish leader whose party’s founding ideology was built on national reunification, eschews that very principle — while the ex-leader of a Unionist party built on the continuation of the link with Britain, debates the position Unionism might adopt in the event of a border poll.
The present leader of the Orange Order in Ireland is calling for a new North of Ireland based on continued consent to remain in the UK and is making plans for a 12-month centenary celebration next year for the mini-state which was born in violent division and discrimination in 1921.
A state with a bloody sectarian history founded on a religious headcount that turned a Unionist Protestant minority in the whole of Ireland into a regional majority in a partitioned Ireland.
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