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: 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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Five decisions that must be taken this week will reveal a lot about Stormont’s chances of returning

After the weekend’s dramatic election results, events are moving quickly, giving political leaders little time to mak...

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How did Alliance get 17 MLAs with 116,000 votes and TUV get just one with 66,000?

It is understandable that Jim Allister is feeling hard done by, returning to Stormont alone despite taking almost 66,...

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DUP failure leaves unionism at the crossroads, tempted to take the dangerous path of a single party

More than half a century after Terence O’Neill, the prime minister of a dying Stormont, said that Northern Ireland st...

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Sam McBride: As unionism shrinks, its mood is hardening — and its options are becoming more limited

Unionism has moved decisively to the right, ignoring the DUP’s warnings about a Sinn Fein first minister to vote in g...

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Sam McBride: No-hoper candidates can be absurd, but serve democracy

What causes someone to put themselves forward for election? Ego, money or power, many of the public would say, reflec...

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Derry Girls more popular than politics as BBC and UTV election debate viewing figures fall sharply

The viewing figures for the BBC’s televised leaders’ debate were far lower than for the last Assembly election five y...

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Sam McBride: At last, a spirited NI election debate... but the scale of Stormont’s brokenness is ...

As the final act in an overwhelmingly forgettable election campaign, Tuesday night’s BBC debate was the first time wh...

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Sam McBride: A turgid campaign has exposed cracks within SF and DUP

Those most deeply immersed in politics can lose sight of the big picture. In this online age, change is incessant and...

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Sam McBride: Doug Beattie and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson flounder in UTV election debate ruined by dis...

A simple flaw in the format meant that tonight’s UTV debate, as has been the case for years, failed to adequately exp...

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Sam McBride: DUP and Sinn Féin are the weary front runners in election race but are all out of ideas

There can’t be a system of government in which it matters less who wins and who comes second than in Northern Ireland...

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Sam McBride: Short-termism defines Northern Ireland, but a day of reckoning looms

When you open this newspaper a week from today, the votes will be counted, and debate will centre not on who will be ...

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