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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In campaigning to save the Good Friday Agreement, Richard Neal and the US could undermine it

In an interview with US public broadcaster C-Span 16 years ago, Richard Neal said that he would like to be seen as an...

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Sam McBride: Northern Ireland Protocol’s flaws there for all to see as both sides eye up compromise

There was a way for Boris Johnson to make much of the Irish Sea border vanish in far smarter and less rancorous circu...

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Sam McBride: Alliance could topple Sinn Féin and DUP as rivals still fail to understand party’s g...

No party has grown more in the 24 years since the Good Friday Agreement than Alliance — and yet it was the Agreement ...

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Vet scandal: DAERA did not disclose crucial video evidence of animal suffering to judge

The scandal surrounding a whistleblower vet hounded out of her job deepened tonight as it emerged the Department of A...

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Sam McBride: Riven by contradictions and hard to believe, Truss’ protocol stance could be acutely...

If this was a government whose word was its bond, what Liz Truss set out in Parliament today would be dramatic. It wo...

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Sam McBride: PM’s recklessness in moderation may be the worst of both worlds

If what Boris Johnson is doing on the Northern Ireland Protocol is reckless, then it seems to be recklessness in mode...

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Let’s change the protocol, not scrap it, says Boris Johnson ahead of Northern Ireland visit

The Northern Ireland Protocol will not be scrapped, Boris Johnson has indicated to unionists, but it must be fundamen...

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Sam McBride: Sinn Féin are missing a trick to build Irish unity argument by insisting on first mi...

It’s possible to win and lose simultaneously. The DUP spectacularly demonstrated this by securing the Brexit of which...

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Sam McBride: Far more to protocol stance of PMs than they let on, suggests senior civil servant

As swathes of the NI Protocol are perhaps about to be torn up, new light has been shed on how this document came abou...

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Controversial former RHI minister Jonathan Bell returns to help ex-DUP MLA

Jonathan Bell, the former DUP minister whose lurid escapades peppered evidence to the RHI Inquiry, has made a surpris...

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Sam McBride: The biggest DUP decision on Friday is not about the first minister’s post

Many people will be watching the DUP on Friday to see if it nominates ministers to re-enter the Executive. Almost cer...

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Sam McBride: Don’t expect the DUP to suddenly compromise on Northern Ireland Protocol; its positi...

How much do unionists really care about the Northern Ireland Protocol? The answer to that question will hinge on whet...

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