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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Stormont is full of drawn-out unpredictable games so it’s perfect for first Test cricket match in...

I can still remember the frequency: 198 kHz longwave. Lying in bed late at night, Radio 4’s crackly signal came from ...

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Secret memos told PM ‘quality intelligence' on IRA was 'rarely obtainable’ – contrary to what’s n...

Twelve days after Sir Patrick Mayhew’s appointment as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, he sent a ‘secret and ...

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The evidence that Belfast schoolgirl Julie Livingstone was hit by baton round fired at a forbidde...

Julie Livingstone should be alive today. She might have now been a mother or a grandmother, spoiling her grandchildre...

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Starmer's bland answers were designed to tell us little – but he hinted at one significant NI policy

Sir Keir Starmer's six-minute press conference was frustratingly banal – yet this may be what we're getting used to f...

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After talking tough in Opposition, new PM Keir Starmer is now coy about united Ireland referendum

New Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has declined to state clearly whether he might call a border poll – while the SDL...

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Swagger, hubris and greed of Paisley led to biblical fall and end of family’s political dynasty

When Ian Paisley Jr was eight, he declared: “What this country needs is a dictator, and I’m the man to do it.” For th...

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As the DUP’s once-lofty citadels fall, it pushes for a unionist unity which would be disastrous

What unfolded in the early hours of yesterday morning reinforces what is an insoluble problem for unionism. Many unio...

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What it’s like to be at an election count in Northern Ireland

This is an extract from Uncovered with Sam McBride, a subscriber-only weekly newsletter from the Belfast Telegraph’s ...

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Isolated Naomi Long abandons appeal plan over sex offences ruling after other Executive parties c...

Naomi Long has abandoned her plan to appeal a judgment overturning a law criminalising those who named Jimmy Savile a...

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There’s more in common between Liz Truss and People Before Profit’s communist manifesto than is f...

People Before Profit’s manifesto doesn’t use the word communism, but what it proposes is at least communism lite.

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Nationalist party wants Irish Sea border for people – but doesn’t seem to realise that would end ...

The Irish Sea border has been a key election debate within unionism - but now a nationalist party is calling for an "...

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Naomi Long to appeal judgment striking down law that banned people from saying ‘Jimmy Savile was ...

Naomi Long is planning to use public funds to appeal a High Court judgment which overturned a law that criminalised s...

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