No Right Turn

In 1972, British soldiers tortured a false confession out of Liam Holden , resulting in him being given Britain's last death sentence. W...

Northern Ireland went to the polls last week , resulting in Sinn Féin becoming the largest party, the first time an Irish party has done so...

In 1971 the British government explicitly approved a policy of torture in Northern Ireland . Fourteen people were tortured as a result, roun...

England's massacres in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles" are just another in its long list of colonial crimes. And like t...

Fifty years ago, the British army murdered ten people in the Ballymurphy massacre in Northern Ireland. In what has become a common tactic f...

Same-sex marriage has finally become legal in Northern Ireland . But not through any decision of the Northern Irish Executive or Assembly, w...

I witnessed my first real battles and saw my first corpses in Belfast. It prepared me for the Middle East Mike Pompeo scorns the law becaus...

Northern Ireland is the Alabama of the UK: a backwards region where women and gay people are denied fundamental rights. But Westminster has ...

In 2017, journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey released the documentary No Stone Unturned . The documentary investigated the 1994 Lo...

There may be no direct comparison, but the ghosts of Northern Ireland’s violent past haunt Brexit

On 30 January 1972, British soldiers shot 28 unarmed civilians in Derry in Northern Ireland , killing thirteen people. The usual official wh...

Its long been known that the British government used torture in Northern Ireland during "the troubles". The Five Techniques were ...

It's not the first time the Tories have been forced into bed with Unionists – and this long alliance is troubling

Martin McGuinness dies: The 'super-terrorist who became a super-statesman – like so many others

At least, they are if you believe the Democratic Unionist Party, which today vetoed Stormont's passage of a marriage equality bill on th...

More dirt from Britain's dirty war in Northern Ireland: they protected murderers for intelligence purposes : The security forces protec...

What are Britain's spies for? Protecting paedophiles, apparently : MI5 is facing allegations it was complicit in the sexual abuse of ch...

Ian Paisley’s decision to make peace with his IRA enemies might have reminded the Arabs of Sadat

Former British soldiers have admitted that they participated in a death squad which murdered unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland in the 19...

On 30 January 1972, the British Army murdered 14 unarmed Irish civil rights protesters in the Bloody Sunday massacre . Now, 41 years later, ...