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: Paisleyism in the DUP has outlasted its founder, but it is now all but dead

When one of Ian Paisley’s most astute biographers was attempting to convey the novelty of how the cleric had melded t...

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Sam McBride: Sinn Fein partitionism on fracking betrays one-track mind

For more than 20 years, Sinn Fein’s political strategy has been two-fold: Arguing for a border poll, and in the meant...

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Sam McBride: Some politicians have used media as an ATM for secret, easy cash for years

On Wednesday afternoon, I spent almost two hours at an Assembly committee facing tough questions from MLAs. Lest you ...

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It’s official: we’ve never had it so good in Northern Ireland

We in Northern Ireland are good at complaining.

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Sam McBride: Fracking in Northern Ireland - an obscure leak, public health, billions of pounds......

Six days ago, an obscure website set up by an Argentine-American biologist published portions of a leaked report comm...

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Sam McBride: What kind of health service only accepts patients who are dying?

Northern Ireland’s health service is collapsing. It will be worse next year, and the year after that. While failing m...

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Sam McBride: Rates law being rammed through Assembly will have huge implications

Next week the Assembly will vote on whether to rush through a piece of almost unknown retrospective legislation which...

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Sam McBride: Boris Johnson’s bungling routine has his rivals all at sea in Brexit battle

For months, speculation has abounded as to whether Boris Johnson will trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Prot...

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Sam McBride: NI’s booming youth population have legitimate grievances – and clunking Stormont is ...

As winter looms, Covid cases surge again and hospitals bulge with the ill, it might seem as though this pandemic is i...

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Sam McBride: Owen Paterson scandal only serves to shatter public trust in politics

If you’re going to be corrupt, you’d better have friends in high places. That’s how life in Nigeria and Zimbabwe oper...

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Sam McBride: Seeing Covid-19 in apocalyptic terms, some churches are alive with wild fears

In January, if Northern Ireland was an independent country, its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine would have been th...

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Sam McBride: Battle for free speech is being surrendered to keyboard warriors

For most of human history, there have been attempts to control which ideas can be expressed in public. Invariably, su...

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