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Gary Gibbon
Yesterday No 10 accidentally mis-briefed that the DUP deal was contingent on Stormont power-sharing getting up and running. It set a lot of hares running, briefly, before the correction was rung through. It was a particularly lively moment because DUP insiders believe that the Northern Ireland office had, at the end of last week, been…
Millions of Americans seem destined to lose their access to health care, under a new bill due to be voted on by the Senate next week. President Trump is, as he promised, undoing Obamacare, the health system put in place by his predecessor. Democrats say poorer Americans will pay the price with their lives, but…
It’s a cliché that rain on polling day is bad for left-wing parties. But does the evidence stack up? FactCheck investigates.
It’s no secret that the Labour leader has long supported the end of British rule in Ulster.
The Republican strategist and Trump supporter, Scottie Nell Hughes, and the writer-at-large for New York Magazine, Andrew Sullivan, debate Donald Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, his first foreign visit since becoming President.
Remember how a few days ago the White House was still saying that NO special counsel was needed to investigate links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Well now there is one.
Senior Republicans are now joining calls for a special prosecutor. John McCain, who ran for the White House himself, even compared it to the Watergate scandal that destroyed the Nixon Presidency. The whiff of a cover-up over alleged links between the Trump campaign and Moscow brought the first calls today for impeachment proceedings to be…
Republicans have voted to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s healthcare scheme after a key vote in the US House of Representatives. It’s taken a flurry of backroom deals to win reluctant Congressmen round – to what was one of Trump’s flagship campaign promises.
Military veterans have held rallies in Belfast, Glasgow and London – protesting against recent prosecutions of former soldiers who had served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. A counter hardline Republican demonstration passed off peacefully.
Republican commentator Ann Coulter, a long-time supporter of President Trump but a critic of the air strikes he launched in Syria, and Dr Jan Halper-Hayes, an adviser to the President’s administration who supports the strikes.
In the United States the Senate hearing into alleged Russian interference in last year’s presidential election is underway.
Gary Gibbon
Some in the Edinburgh administration detect a division in the May team on when a second referendum might have to be granted.
Yesterday was by no means the first time the Houses of Parliament have come under attack, as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was quick to point out, adding that the freedom and democracy were stronger than any adversary.
He was a passionate republican who worked tirelessly for peace, said Gerry Adams. Others have been less than positive and unforgiving of his violent past. Everyone has an opinion about Martin McGuinness. That he was, and will remain, a pivotal and divisive figure in Northern Irish politics is not in doubt.
The satirist and author PJ O’Rourke is a lifelong Republican, but he’s no fan of President Trump and famously voted for Hillary Clinton.