Newton Emerson: Clearing the road blocks in the way of major infrastructure
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week’s major news stories
Newton Emerson: The LCC exists in the space where we have forgotten what normal means
Grandiose analysis of the Troubles as a ‘dirty war’ is not matched by analysis of a dirty peace
Newton Emerson: History suggests Trump has no interest in our nonsense
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week’s headlines
Newton Emerson: Northern Ireland’s family farms need a balanced response to inheritance tax change after Labour’s Budget, not Stormont alarmism
We need a more nuanced defence of farming interests
Newton Emerson: The Treasury tap is back on – but does more money mean more problems for Stormont?
Newton Emerson offers his inimitable take on the week’s news headlines
Newton Emerson: Stormont reform is a goal that could unite us all
Reform is not just about preventing collapse. It is about better government and normalising democracy
Newton Emerson: Police back-pedalling, Stormont stone-walling and a plague of biting insects
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week’s news
Newton Emerson: Is enforced education really the best way to reach ‘neets’?
Plan to make it compulsory to remain school or training until 18 will be difficult to enforce
Newton Emerson: Everyone wants loyalist paramilitary gangs to go away - including UVF and UDA ‘members’
A look back at the week that was in the news
Newton Emerson: How competitions can change thinking and get government moving
A dramatic expansion of government competitions could be applied to transport and housing problems
Newton Emerson: Loyalist ‘transition’, Michael McMonagle and Belfast gridlock – looking back over the week that was in the news
A look back at the week that was in the news...
Newton Emerson: Do people really want to rejoin the EU?
Few people cared about EU when we were in, so how much will they want to go back?
Newton Emerson: Farmers may own the land, but Stormont owns them
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week that was in the news
Newton Emerson: Why not copy rest of world and let councils run roads?
Absurd that Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd is responsible for all 16,000 miles of road and 6,000 miles of pavement in Northern Ireland
Newton Emerson: Hill Street blues sum up Stormont’s uselessness
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week that was in the news