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Newton Emerson: Delay will suit DUP ahead of council poll
WHILE we wait to see what the protocol deal contains, a debate on the government’s handling of the DUP is filling the news vacuum. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Gloves are off for coming protocol deal
AN assembly recall over ‘Dáithí’s Law’ on opt-out organ donation left the DUP squirming but did not force the party to nominate a speaker. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Bad behaviour improves prospect of Stormont reform
THE prospect of Stormont reform has been greatly improved by the symmetry of Sinn Féin and DUP abuse of the rules – that “both have played silly-buggers”, as it was condescendingly described last week by Tory MP Simon Hoare, chair of Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Donaldson designed his tests to be met
CONTRARY to popular belief, the UK has a constitution. → Read More
Newton Emerson: DUP could reject a deal but still restore devolution
IT is becoming increasingly implausible that the DUP will endorse a protocol deal, let alone go back to promoting it as part of a “gateway of opportunity”, to quote former leader Arlene Foster. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Support for Good Friday Agreement is solid
SUPPORT for the Good Friday Agreement is remarkably solid, contrary to some dramatic interpretations of the latest LucidTalk poll. → Read More
Newton Emerson: SDLP assembly proposal deserves to be taken seriously
An SDLP proposal to restore the assembly got lost amid last week's fuss over Mary Lou McDonald's exclusion from Stormont party talks. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Report lays down a marker to DUP leader
With a protocol deal in prospect, unionist Brexiteers are positioning themselves for the inevitable. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Don't hold your breath on chances of UK rejoining EU
Leo Varadkar has said he accepts Brexit is not going to be reversed. → Read More
Newton Emerson: What's stopping London from tackling our NHS crisis?
The government is to build sea border inspections posts in Northern Ireland, a letter from the department of agriculture in London has revealed. → Read More
Newton Emerson: A solution to the protocol is evolving by default
The most important aspect of the latest protocol confrontation is that behind the outrage everyone is saying roughly the same thing - or pointing to the same sea border landing zone, to mix a transport metaphor. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Time to enforce existing rules to deal with Airbnb boom
Belfast City Council has passed an SDLP motion calling for Stormont to review Airbnb short-term lets. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Government dawdling is the real threat to Stormont stability
This was the week the DUP was meant to collapse Stormont over the protocol and Sinn Féin was meant to collapse it over an Irish language act, yet their deadline arrived to shrugs on both sides. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Raising household rates would solve Stormont's financial problems
Bringing Northern Ireland's household rates bills into line with equivalent taxes in Britain would raise a sum equal to 10 per cent of our health budget and solve Stormont's financial problems at a stroke. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Alliance surge has changed the political landscape for good
At the height of 2019's ‘Alliance surge', Northern Ireland's centre ground shrank. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Doug Beattie now hostage to tiny faction of Brexiteers
Monday's pan-unionist event against the protocol at the Conservative Party conference was organised by the Unionist Information Office, established under David Trimble in 1995 as the UUP's ‘London embassy'. → Read More
Newton Emerson: SF and DUP end restrictions in hands across the barricades moment
It can be difficult to follow changing Covid restrictions, let alone the politics behind them, so the simplicity of Stormont's latest decision is refreshing. → Read More
Newton Emerson: DUP fear is that protocol problems will be patched over
Most of us always knew Brexit would end with the English pouring petrol down their trousers. → Read More
Newton Emerson: DUP walk-out would threaten health planning and reform
Health service managers in Northern Ireland have long warned their first need is not more money but an end to Stormont's one-year budgets, which make long-term planning and reform impossible. → Read More
Newton Emerson: Organ donation vote shows DUP is yielding to the new reality
The DUP split four ways over the organ donation bill in Stormont on Monday. → Read More