Omnipresent and elusive, why has the Irish backstop been so controversial? Peter Geoghegan investigates
If Theresa May’s deal fails, what are the five Plan Bs? And which one works for Irish business and our economy?
A deal? No deal? A general election in Britain? Another referendum? An extension of Article 50? Defenestration for Theresa May? Two and a half years since the Leave vote won the day, nobody knows what twists the next chapter of the Brexit tale holds
Arron Banks, who revels in presenting himself as a plain-speaking populist railing against the liberal elite, has dismissed the various allegations against him as an anti-Brexit plot propagated by ‘remoaners’.
Almost 22 years since a ceasefire brought to an end its bloody civil war, Bosnia-Herzegovina is still speckled with segregated villages and grappling with a dangerous political crisis, writes Peter Geoghegan
Two decades ago, Scottish National Party (SNP) conferences were low-key affairs held in small hot...
New Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond will need good judgment to keep Britain’s head above water
The favourite to become Britain’s second woman PM faces a job to convince Tory grassroots
Could a vote to leave trigger talk of a united Ireland?
Factfile Age: 47 Appearance: aristocratic, aloof Newsworthiness: the Northern Ireland Secretar...
The are one of the last obstacles to normalisation of life in the North – but proving far harder to remove than they were to erect
Twenty years ago this month, Europe’s worst atrocities and massacres since the Nazi regime took place, when many thousands of Bosniak Muslims were murdered by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica. The International Commission on Missing Persons has been
The Tories’ overall majority confounded the prevailing political wisdom, but many of David Cameron’s most pressing problems still remain
The rise of the SNP is the one exciting element in a hard-to-call contest entering its final days
Nicola Sturgeon’s favourite television programme is Borgen. In the popular Danish drama, a sma...
