Sam McBride Northern Ireland Editor
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Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and the Sunday Independent. His 2019 book Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite became a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. He is a regular presence on radio and television, giving analysis of events which impact on Northern Irish politics and society.

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932 Artículo
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Sinn Féin needs to shed its thin skin and stop running to the lawyers

Two separate events on either side of the Border last Tuesday could entail a crucial moment of overreach by Sinn Féin.

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Unearthed after 50 years, document shows that Paisley wanted swoops on loyalist extremists

Myths can be born in an instant but persist for millennia. How the Troubles started and how they escalated is the sub...

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Civil servants can act to save free eye and dental care, but are refusing to do so

A technical change to legislation which could stop people needlessly going blind and losing teeth could be made by ci...

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Poll numbers make Donaldson look strong – in reality, they expose his weakness

Rarely can a political leader have been as disappointed at seeing their party’s support increase.

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Once-lucrative RHI boiler can’t even be sold for £1 as hundreds drop out of bungled scheme

RHI boilers were once licences to print money – but now people are selling them at knock-down prices and one man is s...

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Shifting border poll goalposts is so monumentally stupid it’s almost impossible

Steve Baker is not the first person to suggest that it would be better if Irish unity maybe should require a supermaj...

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NI playwright Michael Cameron: ‘At the age of 36, I realised by mistake I was adopted... it was a...

Michael Cameron was 36 when a mundane bureaucratic procedure demolished what he believed to be the most elemental fac...

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Beware a border poll dressed as a Trojan Horse

What if a border poll were more of a threat to Ireland than it is to Britain? To many people, whether nationalist or ...

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Police Ombudsman and Department of Justice refuse to say if Ombudsman has offered to resign

The Police Ombudsman’s Office has refused to say whether Police Ombudsman Marie Anderson has offered to resign.

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Hundreds of NI vets to strike for a week, disrupting abattoirs and Irish Sea border checks

A week-long strike by hundreds of government vets could cripple parts of the Northern Ireland economy and dramaticall...

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Facebook is suppressing reputable journalism – and cashing in as a result

A few months ago, I found myself on a stage with a senior figure from Facebook. The audience included leading politic...

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Stormont’s draconian new law would have criminalised news reports that exposed Kincora scandal

Days before it fell last year, Stormont passed a law which if it had been in place earlier would have made some of th...

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