Former DUP minister Jim Wells has said that his friend of 50 years who helped found the DUP was wrong to say publicly...
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He’s a Paisleyite, a founding member of the DUP, a former special adviser to Nigel Dodds, and a leading evangelical P...
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The man who was Stormont’s most senior official dealing with Brexit has said that the DUP needs to realise that the G...
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There was circumstantial evidence that walkout protests by pupils at Jeffrey Donaldson’s old school were being orches...
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The BBC is facing a near-£500,000 legal bill after finally settling two high-profile and long-running workplace dispu...
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Chris Heaton-Harris has responded defiantly to the suggestion that he might be part of the problem with restoring Sto...
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Tuna from Mauritius sourced as an alternative to Great Britain following Brexit took nine months to reach its Norther...
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The Secretary of State has refused to clarify or retract claims he made about the transportation of plants across the...
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‘Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself,” was Shakespeare’s advice. But loyalists are not j...
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For years, it has been received wisdom that Sinn Fein’s southern ambitions mean it needs to be in Stormont to show so...
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In a democracy, power is constrained to protect personal liberties and curtail the potential for authoritarianism — b...
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Throughout human history mankind has struggled to acquire wealth, not just out of personal greed but in the belief we...
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Northern Ireland is hopelessly failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the rest of the UK — and civil se...
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The Secretary of State’s list of 10 areas in which the people of Northern Ireland might be taxed more or lose free st...
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The DUP could enter a coalition with Labour if the next election delivers a hung parliament, former leader Dame Arlen...
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The DUP has considerable cause for optimism as it faces voters next week: it has recovered in the polls, has avoided ...
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The DUP has considerable cause for optimism as it faces voters next week: it has recovered in the polls, has avoided ...
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The Prime Minister and Joe Biden will celebrate peace but their efforts to restore political co-operation are likely ...
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The utter dominance of unionism in Northern Ireland’s first half century can be conveyed in three facts: in that peri...
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Just weeks before the Irish Sea border was implemented, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told an academic Brexit was just a trad...
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But a senior DUP MP tells i there is "no chance" the party will re-enter Stormont without changes to the Brexit deal.
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The ‘Stormont Brake’ legislation sounds like a unionist veto, but it clearly isn’t.
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Jeffrey Donaldson is stalling. He’s not saying no, even though it’s clear that the Windsor Framework does not meet hi...
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One of the enduring paradoxes of NI politics is how the two major parties most dedicated to either achieving or preve...
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The problem with dishonesty is that when you’re telling the truth people might not believe you.
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If the Prime Minister does indeed think that Northern Ireland’s population can be distracted from hard politics by so...
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The Stormont Brake will give unionists in Northern Ireland an effective veto on EU laws changing in the region withou...
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RHI boiler owners relying on Arlene Foster’s cast-iron guarantee that their payments could only rise for 20 years hav...
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The DUP’s refusal to rapidly sign up to a deal on the NI Protocol seems to have astonished Downing Street, but that v...
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The Prime Minister appeared to play down the prospect of an imminent agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol, amid...
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A decade ago this week, two charismatic MLAs quit the Ulster Unionists to set up a new political party.
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Three years ago, a cover-up began inside a decaying Northern Ireland council. Now, as an election looms, that cover-u...
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Irish unity would now be far more achievable if Sinn Féin didn’t exist, the author of a book arguing in favour of reu...
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Tory MPs backed a proposal to tear up the system of punishing members who break the rules, and block a 30-day suspens...
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Tory Peer Lord Frost said the "inheritance" from the previous Tory Government was a "significant" part of the difficulty
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EU member states are said to have informally agreed to grant Britain a three-month extension to one of the contentiou...
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The Lagan Valley MP’s appointment as leader designate follows the resignation of Edwin Poots, just 21 days into the job
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Micheal Martin pledged the Irish Government will work with the new DUP leader, whoever it is, after Edwin Poots' shoc...
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EU Ambassador to London Joao Vale de Almeida hit back at DUP leader Edwin Poots, saying the Northern Ireland protocol...
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