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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Jeffrey Donaldson: Problems with Brexit the fault of other parties

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has declined to apologise for anything which the DUP has done over recent years, insisting that...

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When a prospective MLA knocks on your front door, you’re holding more power than them

For the next month, when your doorbell rings, it’s as likely to be a politician as someone trying to get you to sell ...

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10 key questions to ask Northern Ireland Assembly election candidates looking for your vote

When a prospective MLA knocks on your front door, you're holding more power than them, but what should you ask?

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Sam McBride: Why Stormont has become a cynical politician’s dream of power without responsibility

So if, as Winston Churchill observed, success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthus...

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Sam McBride: A third of our MLAs weren’t put there by the voters... and it may get even worse

To live in a democracy is a precious privilege, as global events constantly remind us. The ability to sack every MLA,...

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Ulster Unionist Party’s all things to all people manifesto involves ambition as well as populism

The UUP manifesto has enough meat to show that the party is starting to think seriously about being a major player in...

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IRA and Sinn Fein spy Denis Donaldson ‘rejected offer of new life from his police handlers’

A former police officer involved in the case of senior IRA and Sinn Féin spy Denis Donaldson has said there are flaws...

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Poots fails to take action over Russian coal despite earlier pledge

Almost two weeks after Edwin Poots pledged to decide within “days” over allowing Kilroot power station to burn non-Ru...

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Sam McBride: DUP gains ground, but overall support drops for divided unionism

One statistic jumps out from the LucidTalk/Belfast Telegraph poll: the DUP’s support is up two percentage points, but...

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Sam McBride: DUP’s future looks increasingly grim… now party must hope damage it has done to the ...

Power is slipping away from the Democratic Unionist Party. After two decades as Northern Ireland’s dominant political...

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Sam McBride: Why we all may be paying more for electricity thanks to Stormont failures and a litt...

At a monopoly company few people have even heard of, something very odd is going on. It has been happening for years ...

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Huge shipment of Russian coal to dock in Belfast this weekend – as Stormont fails to act

A massive shipment of Russian coal is coming into Northern Ireland this weekend more than a week after Stormont said ...

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