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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David Trimble got the big calls right, says key internal UUP critic David Burnside

One of David Trimble’s most prominent internal critics has said that the former First Minister was “a great leader” w...

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Lord Alderdice: ‘No one showed more political courage than David Trimble’

One of the few surviving party leaders who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement has said that “no one demonstrated po...

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Sam McBride: David Trimble’s warmth to former foes said much about his real character

When it was known that Martin McGuinness had just days to live, he received a letter from David Trimble which said mu...

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Sam McBride: Even David Trimble’s foes recognise he shaped the new Northern Ireland in which we live

David Trimble, the unionist leader whose thinking shaped Northern Irish life for a quarter of a century, is mourned b...

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Sam McBride: For the first time in 50 years, Stormont has a nationalist leader of the opposition ...

It says much about Northern Ireland’s changed political landscape that the last time a nationalist agreed to serve as...

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Sam McBride: All of a sudden, triggering Article 16 of NI Protocol doesn’t seem such a bad idea a...

For months, British threats to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol had appeared feeble. What started ...

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Sam McBride: Post-Brexit contradictions and uncertainty surround both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak

On a sunny May day six weeks before the EU Referendum in 2016, Liz Truss arrived at the Balmoral Show to campaign aga...

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Sam McBride: How Boris Johnson airbrushed over the truth and how his attempts backfired in Partyg...

The day after Boris Johnson belatedly bowed to his political mortality, two sets of images dominated the front pages ...

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Sam McBride: Texas tragedy gives a glimpse into our future unless there’s a rethink on bonfires

Despite expert concerns, the use of unqualified builders, the prevalence of alcohol, and previous serious injuries, t...

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Sam McBride: Jeffrey Donaldson’s belated willingness to accept deputy First Minister post is not ...

In the two months since Sir Jeffrey Donaldson refused to take the Stormont seat to which he was elected, a belief dan...

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Sam McBride: Top Orangemen vow to defeat Northern Ireland Protocol as they denounce Boris Johnson...

The Orange Order’s two most senior figures have delivered hardline anti-protocol speeches from Twelfth platforms, bac...

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Just days before John Steele’s death, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council was repeatedly warned a...

The chief executive of the council on whose land a bonfire builder fell to his death was warned about the risk of fal...

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