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Ministers defend Theresa May after problems beset keynote speech
- UK
- October 4, 2017, 19:58
British cabinet ministers defended Theresa May on Wednesday after her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference fell victim to a prankster a(...)

Matthew d’Ancona: The Tories need the shock therapy of absolute candour
- Opinion
- October 2, 2017, 10:52
Theresa May is right. “As Conservatives,” she told the BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday, “the arguments that we thought we’d had and won during the 1980s a(...)

Theresa May under fire as UK’s student ‘overstay’ figures discredited
- UK
- August 25, 2017, 09:44
Theresa May’s determination to continue counting foreign students in the British government’s immigration target left her increasingly isolated on Thu(...)

Taoiseach will get a taste of Northern Ireland’s new Pride
- Social Affairs
- August 4, 2017, 01:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar deliberated carefully before deciding to attend the Pride event in Belfast on Saturday. It was established last weekend that he(...)

What ‘Poldark’ can teach us about late-stage capitalism
- Opinion
- July 25, 2017, 14:50
The BBC drama series Poldark is becoming eerily relevant to our times. The hero, George Warleggan – a dashing banker and mining entrepreneur – has suc(...)

Why Republican dissidents have not – and will not – go away
- Crime & Law
- July 19, 2017, 01:00
Twenty years on from the 1997 IRA ceasefire, what kind of threat does violent Irish republicanism now represent? The Provisional Irish Republican Ar(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said he does not believe there will be a deal done with the DUP to restore powersharing government in the North by(...)

British and Irish sources reject Sinn Féin’s Stormont demands
- Politics
- June 30, 2017, 20:35
Demands by Sinn Féin for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Theresa May to intervene in the Stormont talks on restoring the North’s pow(...)

Theresa May could survive in office because Tories have no alternative
- UK
- June 27, 2017, 01:00
Nothing saves time like taking people at their word. Politics trains you for the opposite: to look for misdirection and hidden motives. When Britain’s(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said the Democratic Unionist Party commitment to support any deal on the UK exiting the European Union was a “blank ch(...)