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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The late Queen was one of the last living links to our ancestors, and to their values

A pillar of often unseen stability has fallen, and with its demise comes some appreciation of the benign constancy we...

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Time to take control of our own electricity: Allister

Stormont’s Economy Minister has been urged to intervene in the governance of the controversial monopoly company respo...

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Jim Allister urges DUP minister to take control of NI electricity amid monopoly controversy

Stormont’s Economy Minister has been urged to intervene in the governance of the controversial monopoly company respo...

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Sam McBride: Despite his Brexit-pushing background, Chris Heaton-Harris is more of an unknown qua...

Even Chris Heaton-Harris’s political opponents must have felt some sympathy for him yesterday.

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Sam McBride: Northern Ireland isn’t a key priority for Liz Truss… and four other things we learne...

When Liz Truss’s hero Margaret Thatcher first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister in 1979 she famously quoted th...

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Sam McBride: Liz Truss’s first words as Conservative leader suggest she will betray unionism

The logic of what Liz Truss set out in her first speech as Conservative Party leader points to her abandoning Norther...

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If Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister tomorrow she will have an immediate effect on this island

If bookmakers, pollsters and Conservative Party insiders are to be believed, we already know the next prime minister’...

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Sam McBride: As electricity bills soar, our money is being used to fight our watchdog

As before us looms a winter in which the prospect of blackouts is higher than for decades, the monopoly company which...

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Sam McBride: There’s a moral hazard around restoring devolution as Unionists know Westminster wil...

Two decades into the reign of Queen Victoria, Karl Marx lamented how the process of setting her government’s spending...

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Sam McBride: After hounding out a good vet, Daera wonders why it can’t get enough of them

Deep in the bureaucratic belly of Stormont’s scandal-ridden agriculture department, there is quiet panic.

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Business as usual for under-fire chief vet as he is seen briefing NIO minister Conor Burns

Despite months of revelations about the behaviour of Northern Ireland’s chief vet he remains in post — and on Thursda...

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DAERA Permanent Secretary questioned involving sacked whistleblower Bronckaers in review of handl...

The most senior official in Stormont’s agriculture department questioned sacked whistleblower Tamara Bronckaers being...

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