Newton Emerson: Unionists have no choice but to make the Irish Sea border workPost-Brexit problems likely to be aggravations rather than a big crisisThu Jan 07 2021 - 05:00
Newton Emerson: Covid means North has to relearn dangers of having too much moneyUS diplomat Martha Pope ahead of her time with observations on excess funding in 1997Thu Dec 31 2020 - 05:00
Newton Emerson: English Channel disruption is the futureThe question for Ireland is whether its lorries and ferries will be waved through the barricadesThu Dec 24 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists facing citizenship conundrum after BrexitWho will a US company give the EU sales job to, an Irish or British passport holder?Thu Dec 17 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Foster’s lack of control over DUP is one of Brexit’s original sinsFirst Minister risks highlighting splits within her own party if she lauds sea border dealThu Dec 10 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Unionists will not get desired balance from public inquiriesThe Troubles will be seen through landmark cases such as Pat Finucane and the La MonThu Dec 03 2020 - 01:15
Newton Emerson: Joe Biden’s Brexit remarks show an opportunity for unionismUS president-elect did not seem like someone yearning to push for difficult change in IrelandThu Nov 26 2020 - 00:00
Sinn Féin is still trying to wish away economic realities of a united IrelandNewton Emerson: Party is peddling frustrating nonsense about the UK subventionThu Nov 19 2020 - 00:00
EU reveals indifference as it takes its threat to North’s food supply to the wireCommission is oblivious to rare show of Stormont unityThu Nov 12 2020 - 00:00
Success on housing in North could be Sinn Féin’s route to government in SouthParty on serious manoeuvres as its Minister outlines social housing reform in StormontThu Nov 05 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Money talks and waffle walks in Shared Island initiativeIf Republic really aspires to unity, it needs to show North the colour of its moneyThu Oct 29 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: The North is not the reason there cannot be all-Ireland zero-CovidThe Government would not be pursuing zero-Covid strategy even in a united IrelandThu Oct 22 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Covid decisions highlight Stormont's design flawsSystem may not be ideal but aiming for all-party consensus in a pandemic is absurdThu Oct 15 2020 - 00:26
Newton Emerson: America’s real role in peace process has been leaning on Sinn FéinAny reversal of US policy due to Brexit should be handled with careThu Oct 08 2020 - 00:01
Bloody Sunday decision on soldiers shows limits of ‘truth or justice’ modelNewton Emerson: Approach does not satisfy the bereaved or resolve legacy issuesThu Oct 01 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Coronavirus has been good for Northern politicsVoter behaviour is forcing two big parties to get their act together against the virusThu Sept 24 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Brussels is threatening the North's food supplyBoth the EU and UK are cynically using Northern Ireland as a bargaining chipThu Sept 17 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: London seeks to push North away to try to keep EU rules at bayBoris Johnson’s government will always choose its vision of Brexit over North’s place in unionThu Sept 10 2020 - 01:00
Political cowardice in Stormont adding to Republic’s electricity billsMedia pandering to tinfoil hat nonsense delaying new North-South interconnectorThu Sept 03 2020 - 00:01
Newton Emerson: Ireland, North and South, will miss Phil Hogan’s voice on BrexitEU trade commissioner had shown he was able to see the issue on an Irish and British scaleThu Aug 27 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: North’s grading mess shows pointlessness of GCSEsDitching exams at 16 could let Northern Ireland transform its faltering school systemThu Aug 20 2020 - 06:00
Newton Emerson: The North’s attitude to university fees is causing a brain drainA policy designed to help young people get into university has had the opposite effectThu Aug 13 2020 - 00:00
Newton Emerson: Stormont was not the centre of John Hume’s visionThe North-South Ministerial Council is where he hoped the future would be builtThu Aug 06 2020 - 00:01
Newton Emerson: Fading myth of the North’s world-beating schoolsMiddle-classes guard ‘their’ grammar schools, but a third of children leave school with few or no qualificationsThu Jul 30 2020 - 00:00
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
