Newton Emerson: The reality is Sinn Féin still needs to be house-trainedIt is in everyone’s interests to clean up the ‘republican movement’Thu Jul 23 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Socially distanced Twelfth saw Orange Order finally ditch the rabbleOrganisation does not organise bonfires, put up flags or run flute bands but has struggled to disassociate itself from these practicesThu Jul 16 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Funeral raises questions over how much SF president McDonald is in chargeNorth’s parties are tired of constantly second-guessing shadowy forces behind Sinn FéinThu Jul 09 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: A unionist-free Seanad? Nobody minds reallyGovernment’s omission is merely an understandable outworking of politicsThu Jul 02 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Why we need to talk about Dublin and BelfastForget well-meaning waffle, could the North and South administrations work together?Thu Jun 25 2020 - 06:30
Newton Emerson: Northern Irish Greens’ fingerprints all over programme for governmentTheir support will be crucial in getting the deal over the line with party membersThu Jun 18 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: The North’s approach to difficult statues is adding rather than removingNone of the city’s handful of landmark statues is now thought worth fighting overThu Jun 11 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Brussels playing games with Irish sea borderHard line on checks at odds with EU commitment to peace processThu Jun 04 2020 - 01:54
Newton Emerson: UK is failing the people of Hong Kong for a second timeAssertive diplomacy with China would be more use than talk of extending nationalityThu May 28 2020 - 01:27
Newton Emerson: The real U-turn on a Brexit sea border has been by the DUPThe unionist party has performed a reverse ferret worthy of Boris Johnson himselfThu May 21 2020 - 02:05
Newton Emerson: North’s lockdown exit plan marks a big leap by Sinn FéinSF-DUP truce at Stormont will come under pressure as pandemic measures are easedThu May 14 2020 - 02:00
Why Northerners will take a big interest in all-Ireland Green PartyNewton Emerson: Greens make up significant part of new unaligned bloc in NorthThu May 07 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Careless politics over EU Belfast office is inexcusableRow over facility to help police sea border splits along green and orange linesThu Apr 30 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists surprisingly interested in a ‘united island’FF-FG ambivalence makes prospect of meaningful regional autonomy possibleThu Apr 23 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: How ‘behavioural fatigue’ is shaping Covid-19 responseLifting lockdowns will be contentious. What role should behavioural science play?Thu Apr 16 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont to Dublin - about that money you promised usStormont parties may soon want Dublin to put a bit more of its money where its mouth isThu Apr 09 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont must agree to disagree for powersharing to survive crisisDifferent approaches to testing North and Republic will cause political tensionThu Apr 02 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill are a credible double actThere is unprecedented public appetite for leadership of First and Deputy First MinisterThu Mar 26 2020 - 09:18
Newton Emerson: Sectarian split over school closures feels ominousCoronavirus: It makes you wonder how bad things could get if everyone really fell outThu Mar 19 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: ‘Cash for ash’ inquiry report priced into Stormont alreadyNew-found politeness in politics could be RHI report’s main achievementThu Mar 12 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin will not be told what to call the RepublicTwenty years of governing without saying Northern Ireland shows party is not about to changeThu Mar 05 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Letting IRA exist just enough to not exist taints politicsReport saying army council has influence over Sinn Féin came about as way to prevent collapse of StormontThu Feb 27 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Under what conditions would FF or FG share power with SF?The Republic has perhaps one more electoral cycle to normalise Mary Lou McDonald’s partyThu Feb 20 2020 - 02:00
Sinn Féin success nothing for unionists to worry about – in theoryUnification is still why everyone in Mary Lou McDonald’s party gets up in the morningThu Feb 13 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Republic needs to steer Sinn Féin endlessly towards politicsNewton Emerson: Party’s new southern supporters unaware of what they have let over the thresholdSun Feb 09 2020 - 18:37
Newton Emerson: Sinn Féin is not a radical partyThe party's record in power in the North is characterised by cautionThu Feb 06 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Mind your language – unionists are now a raceUlster Scots win in Stormont deal could be considered preparation for defeatThu Jan 30 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Ruling Sinn Féin out of power in Dublin infantilises StormontSF has no incentive to take hard decisions until it is in power both sides of BorderThu Jan 23 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Cynical self-interest may be the making of StormontOpposing parties can find common cause if they can get past cargo-cult mentalityThu Jan 16 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists detect huge waves of anti-British sentiment in RIC falloutAttempts to respect a shared history, while well intentioned, can be aggressiveThu Jan 09 2020 - 02:00
Newton Emerson: Arlene Foster’s leadership of the DUP has been a catastropheLeadership changes could loom for both parties as centrist trajectories appear not to be workingThu Jan 02 2020 - 07:13
Newton Emerson: Push to restore Stormont must not ignore realitySinn Féin and the DUP are ending their grandstanding in a new political eraThu Dec 19 2019 - 06:00
Story of North election was Alliance surge at expense of unionist and nationalist blocsThe Democrat Unionist Party lost one-sixth of its voters and Sinn Féin almost a quarterSat Dec 14 2019 - 17:34
Newton Emerson: Why should the DUP not take advantage if it wins enough seats in the election?SDLP MPs could conceivably be asked to help Labour into Downing StreetThu Dec 12 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont’s last collapse a warning of its nextDUP and Sinn Féin seem to have inability to take tough devolved spending decisionsThu Dec 05 2019 - 08:13
Newton Emerson: Road to united Ireland is via united NorthReconciliation is plainly envisaged in the Belfast Agreement as preceding unityThu Nov 28 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Suspending democracy is not the way to save itPostponing Stormont elections has proved counter productive in fixing the impasseThu Nov 21 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: DUP should be forced to admit Labour is its only hopeSetting its face against a Corbyn government feels like one more corner the DUP is backing itself intoThu Nov 14 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Tribal solidarity trumps all in North BelfastEmerging three-party system must be set against uncompromising acts of aggressionThu Nov 07 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists may allow a Sinn Féin win to decapitate the DUPDUP faces election threat as it is blamed for bringing disaster on union and devolutionThu Oct 31 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: The Irish Government is clearly pondering changes to powersharingFocus should be less on changing rules and more on driving new dynamics between partiesThu Oct 24 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Brexit and the DUP’s bizarre aloofness towards its votersThe party has laid no groundwork to brace its voters for inevitable compromiseThu Oct 17 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: DUP defensive cunning misses big picture of being laughed out of courtTarget of unionist veto over regulatory alignment would never go undetectedThu Oct 10 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: UUP has one chance to make a differenceAllowing the DUP to claim to speak for every unionist has led to disasterThu Oct 03 2019 - 06:00
Boris Johnson is beyond UK supreme court embarrassmentMPs return to parliament 2½ weeks earlier than planned but nothing else has changedThu Sept 26 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: DUP wants cover for its Brexit retreatEU concedes backstop needs democratic oversight and Stormont is no threatThu Sept 19 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: Two U-turns will leave DUP in a spinThe party is marginalised at Westminster and its rivals in Northern Ireland are circlingThu Sept 12 2019 - 06:00
Doubts over Leo Varadkar’s good faith on backstopNewton Emerson: Taoiseach's comments imply he is not really open to considering alternativesThu Sept 05 2019 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: North vote could offer Johnson an exit from backstop stalemateA backstop referendum is considered unwise in official circles because it would turn into a proxy Border pollThu Aug 29 2019 - 06:00
Leaderless North is now approaching the precipiceHow frequently does violence have to occur before the Troubles have restarted?Thu Aug 22 2019 - 06:00
