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: The DUP is playing a very dangerous game that could end up devouring it

Last week there began an election campaign which the DUP and Sinn Fein hoped would be short, but will in fact be unus...

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Sam McBride: DUP needs to gorge on humble pie over Brexit – but so do those who’ve dismissed unio...

When Paul Givan stood at a lectern in Belfast’s Crowne Plaza Hotel on Wednesday afternoon, there was none of the sobr...

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Sam McBride: Peculiar moves by DUP hint at party spat undermining sea border strategy

What has emanated from the DUP this week has been a mixture of carefully laid strategy and actions which for now rema...

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DUP'S Edwin Poots halted Northern Ireland port checks after legal advice from ex-Attorney General...

Edwin Poots acted to halt Irish Sea border checks after receiving legal advice from former Attorney General John Lark...

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Sam McBride: Boris Johnson’s litany of flaws has cemented a legacy of frivolity

As judgment for his many sins rains down on Boris Johnson, his future looks bleak. Irrespective of whether the Britis...

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Sam McBride: DUP-Civil Service showdown could be days away, and the implications are vast

Few people will have heard of Anthony Harbinson or Robert Huey, but those two senior civil servants are likely just d...

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With friends like these, who needs enemies?

When Sir Jeffrey Donaldson took over as DUP leader last summer, someone close to a very senior figure in the Northern...

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Sam McBride: Secrecy and power... what Sue Gray’s two NI sojourns reveal about her

Mystique surrounds Sue Gray as lies surround the man whose career now rests in her hands — if even she could now save...

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Sam McBride: Voters have to accept Boris Johnson’s serial lying is predictably true to form

Floundering in the depths of his own dishonesty, Boris Johnson’s grasp on power is becoming desperate. Support for a ...

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Sam McBride: If Covid had struck before Assembly’s restoration, what would we have done?

On a cold January night two years ago, Julian Smith and Simon Coveney stood in near-darkness beneath Carson’s Statue ...

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Sam McBride: This is the best time in history to live through a pandemic

The disruption to our lives caused by the pandemic was more bearable when it seemed part of a crisis which would last...

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Sam McBride: A constitutional crisis without precedent may be just weeks away

Northern Ireland may be weeks away from stumbling into a constitutional crisis of a sort never seen before. Rather th...

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