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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Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey making donations to Sinn Fein, despite impartiality requirement

Assembly Speaker Alex Maskey has been making large donations to Sinn Fein despite the requirement that he should demo...

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Sam McBride: Nuclear conflict is too terrible to contemplate, but during the Cold War we planned ...

For the 45% of the Northern Ireland population under the age of 40 who have no memory of the Cold War, the threat of ...

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Sam McBride: If, a few months ago, Donaldson did not want to even be a member of the party he now...

It is unusual, to put it mildly, for a political party’s leader to have attempted to leave and join its main rival a ...

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Christopher Stalford's death: Even while humanity grieves, those toxic trolls just have to keep o...

For all that tribalism has obscured humanity in politics, it has not entirely erased it. The week just past involved ...

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Sam McBride on Ukraine crisis: As globalisation unravels, Northern Ireland will pay a cost - but ...

It’s a long way to Kyiv. Just as it was a long way to Wuhan and it’s a long way to Taipei — and that’s the point.

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DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson ‘was in discussions’ to quit the party

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was in discussions to quit the party after he failed to get the leadership last year...

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Sam McBride: Steeped in politics from his teens, just days ago Christopher Stalford had been give...

There are MLAs whose lack of ability is painfully apparent and who seem awkwardly out of place in the Assembly. Chris...

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The Queen's remarkable reign obscured the Royal Family’s fragility: Prince Andrew's unedifying be...

The problem with monarchy is that its key strength is also its key weakness. Get a good ruler and they are there for ...

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Sam McBride: MLAs Jim Wells and Steve Aiken cleared of ‘bullying’ top civil servant who complaine...

A cross-party Stormont committee has rejected a series of findings by the Assembly’s standards commissioner that two ...

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Embattled Mid and East Antrim Council paying equivalent of £275,600 a year for temporary boss – 7...

A modestly-sized Northern Ireland council is paying the equivalent of 75% more than the Prime Minister’s salary for a...

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Sam McBride: When you get into the weeds, there’s a lot more to these polls than Sinn Fein becomi...

The results of the fifth poll – involving two pollsters with different methodologies – which puts Sinn Fein ahead of ...

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Unwanted and unloved, unionists are unbowed… but Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is just latest examp...

What explains undying but unrequited love? Not rationality of the sort that a scientist would recognise. Yet strict r...

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