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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Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Independent

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Naomi Long is misleading public by denying her law banned us from saying Savile was a paedophile ...

Naomi Long is one of the most capable politicians of her generation, and yet a law which raised few eyebrows as it sa...

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Tim Collins unfiltered: UUP candidate on wealth, immigration, misleading poll numbers and corrupt...

In a long interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Colonel Tim Collins casually revealed that he made a million pounds i...

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Criminal investigation begins into PSNI anti-corruption officers who claimed thousands for illega...

A criminal investigation into potential corruption by two former PSNI anti-corruption officers has begun almost a yea...

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UUP pondering fiscal anarchy to avoid life-threatening cuts to health — and no one knows how this...

What looms ahead of Northern Ireland’s health system is potential carnage — but what was once the most staid of polit...

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Insuring my Rolls-Royce in England costs less than for a Ford Fiesta in North Down, says Tim Collins

An Ulster Unionist candidate in one of the party's top target seats has denounced alleged "price-gouging" by insuranc...

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ITV debate showed that damage to Tories' sinking ship is irreparable

Desperately grasping for hope after the Conservatives' dreadful start to the campaign, Rishi Sunak tonight needed to ...

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Ten non-political events likely to influence the General Election in Northern Ireland

Elections aren’t just defined by what politicians decide; events seemingly unconnected to who runs the country can in...

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Defiant Naomi Long says she did nothing wrong and refuses to rule out perverse paedophile law appeal

Justice Minister Naomi Long has refused to say if she will spend more public money appealing a law protecting suspect...

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Would you turn away a man of courage like Saeed Safi, knowing he would face death?

Saeedullah Safi is just 24 but has the heart of a lion. Already in the journalist’s short life he’s been in three exp...

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There are massive questions for Naomi Long over a perverse and absurd law she proposed

What unfolded in Belfast High Court yesterday morning was a devastating exposure of the failure of the Stormont syste...

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Whatever the Westminster election campaign brings, it will disrupt the fledgling Northern Ireland...

Last Wednesday, when Rishi Sunak stood forlornly outside No 10 Downing Street, he was actually channelling a predeces...

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This election will not decide if there is a border poll... and the DUP is not just wrong to sugge...

In the year I was born, there was a Westminster election and the result now looks astonishing. Of Northern Ireland’s ...

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