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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Sam McBride: Having lied about his ‘fantastic deal’, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is already lyin...

The legislation published yesterday would mutilate the NI Protocol in more substantive ways than opponents of the Iri...

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Publication of NI Protocol Bill confirms it would wash away much of the Irish Sea border

The publication of the Government’s long-awaited bill to amend the NI Protocol has confirmed that the legislation wil...

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Sam McBride: Boris Johnson’s downfall could be accelerated by an unexpected argument in a Belfast...

Not known for his forensic attention to detail, Boris Johnson is unlikely to have been closely following events in th...

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Sam McBride: A secret Stormont decree points to deep problems that could affect us all

On the evening of March 29, a senior Stormont official received an unusual order from DUP minister Edwin Poots’s Stor...

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Sam McBride: NI caught in Johnson's anarchically unpredictable lies, which are shredding Britain’...

Political lies are as old as the practice of politics. Otto von Bismarck, the man who unified Germany, once observed ...

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Mid and East Antrim: Northern Ireland’s most dysfunctional council broke law over Belfast Telegra...

Northern Ireland’s most dysfunctional council has been ordered to respond to a Belfast Telegraph request for document...

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Sam McBride: During turbulent times, Her Majesty has given stability... but change beckons

Those who follow the generations now alive may one day observe that we lived in certainty’s dying years.

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Not easy for Stormont to explain why it broke its promise to RHI claimants, department’s lawyer a...

The RHI scheme was never intended to subsidise the main business of companies in Northern Ireland, a barrister for th...

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Arlene Foster’s RHI guarantee read in court as boiler owners seek to reverse subsidy cuts

Arlene Foster’s personal cast iron guarantee about the all but unalterable nature of RHI subsidies was read in the Co...

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Sam McBride: Partygate guests were not only tipsy, but also drunk on power

Whether towards light or darkness, leaders lead. When a nation accepts debauched leadership, as is happening in Brita...

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Sam McBride: Northern Ireland has become a more tolerant but more polarised society

Dervla Murphy, who died this week at the grand age of 90, was celebrated for books like Full Tilt: Ireland to India w...

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NI vet scandal chief Robert Huey was involved in the handling of his own case

Northern Ireland’s chief vet was regularly involved in Civil Service discussions about how to handle the case of a wh...

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