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: Childish populism at Stormont ultimately hurts the very voters they are trying to woo

Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry once summed up Stormont’s financial ideology as having two components: a left-wi...

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Sam McBride: Sinn Fein’s cynical boycotts will not make partition history

Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney defined the central problem of his homeland as two-fol...

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Sam McBride: Arlene Foster has weakened the DUP’s Stormont veto by mistake, with major implicatio...

On Tuesday, Belfast High Court delivered a judgment which seemed to be about electricity but had nothing to do with e...

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Sam McBride: Death notice unionists are dreading

It may come suddenly, or there may be time to prepare for the enormity of what is to happen. On a secure phone line, ...

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Sam McBride: It may be lawful for Stormont to break its promises, but there’s still a price

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. So wrote Niccolo Machiavelli half a millennium ago, enc...

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Sam McBride: Loophole may give DUP unorthodox way to keep first minister post even if Sinn Fein w...

Such is the depth of the intra-unionist divisions that it will now be a surprise if the next Assembly election — whic...

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Sam McBride: A scandal within a scandal: Just one RHI official disciplined — and several promoted

On the afternoon of February 15, 2016, DUP minister Jonathan Bell stood to his feet in the Northern Ireland Assembly ...

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Sam McBride: Paul Hamill, a good man died after too much Covid misinformation – while his hero, l...

On the day that Paul Hamill died, the man whose undermining of public health advice had profoundly impacted the 46-ye...

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Sam McBride: Journalists want to bring the public the truth... but they need help to do it

This is a column about Northern Ireland’s libel law. At this point you may be tempted to stop reading, but please don...

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Sam McBride: Donaldson gamble reeks of panic and puts survival of DUP as major force at risk

Nine months after the Irish Sea border was erected, there is emerging a picture of how this conundrum which has bedev...

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Sam McBride: Awkward choices await Jim Allister if the voters pick him to lead unionism

Revolutions are rarely expected. But revolt is particularly startling in today’s quasi-scientific world of western po...

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Sam McBride: ‘Invisible’ centenary a missed opportunity for education and real reconciliation

How does a contested state whose past is violent and future uncertain publicly celebrate its 100th birthday? Barely a...

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