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London MPs attack BBC for inviting party leader onto Question Time

22.10.09
London MPs today led a furious backlash against the BBC for inviting the BNP onto Question Time... more

Griffin predicts Question Time will put BNP into 'the big time'

22.10.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin predicts that tonight's Question Time would be 'political blood sport' but said it could propel his party into 'the big time'... more

Belfast in flames as 21 police hurt

14.07.09
Twenty-one police officers have been injured in Northern Ireland after one of the worst nights of violence for years... more

Nine police officers injured in Belfast street violence

14.07.09
North Belfast was picking up the pieces today after the worst night of violence for years... more

BNP City Hall official meets neo-fascists at Euro summit

14.04.09
A British National Party official at City Hall came under fire after he attended a conference where European neo-fascists gave Nazi salutes... more

Jacqui, we’re all on the gravy train

30.03.09
The row over the Commons gravy train deepened as Jacqui Smith and other MPs were revealed to be claiming the maximum or near to the limit allowed for second homes... more

It's personal: Obama backs peace for Northern Ireland

17.03.09
Barack Obama has backed the Northern Ireland peace process as he called America's bond with Ireland "one of the strongest in the world"... more

Town comes to a halt for funeral of shot policeman

13.03.09
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the Northern Ireland policeman murdered by dissident Republicans... more

Silent vigils as Ulster shows unity against dissident IRA killers

11.03.09
The people of Northern Ireland came together today in unprecedented unity against the men of violence... more

US must be told Ulster wants peace

10.03.09
As Northern Ireland responds to the first murder of a policeman for 12 years, only two days after two young soldiers were shot outside their Antrim barracks, the province's First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, travel to America... more

Widow of PC murdered by the IRA pleads: What did he die for?

10.03.09
The killers of a policeman lured to his death in an IRA splinter group trap were condemned as “traitors” to Ireland... more

Brown: Soldiers' deaths will not shake the peace

09.03.09
Gordon Brown has visited the place where two soldiers were murdered and declared the peace process was "unshakeable"... more

When will Sinn Fein condemn atrocity?

09.03.09
It is 40 years since a young Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness walked out of the old official IRA... more

Penny-pinching at the MoD has stretched our army to breaking point

09.03.09
The shooting of two young soldiers at Massereene Barracks has brought back the spectre of war with IRA - something most of us might have thought long gone... more

Super hilarity from Andrew Maxwell

23.02.09
Sometimes Andrew Maxwell has such a keen eye he barely has to craft a gag. His Soho Theatre show was not so much a gig, more a comedy masterclass.... more

Foreign Office aide attended peace summit run by Moonies

16.02.09
A Foreign Office ministerial aide has been accused of "sheer incompetence" after it emerged he attended a summit in Africa organised by the Moonies cult... more

'Blackmail plot used IRA's name to demand £120,000'

07.01.09
Two former IRA prisoners tried to blackmail a pair of businessmen in Britain they accused of making £6 million by using the terror organisation's name during their dealings, a court was told... more

Stone gets 16 years for raid

08.12.08
Loyalist killer Michael Stone was jailed for 16 years for trying to kill Sinn Fein leaders in a one-man raid on the Northern Ireland Assembly... more

Tax rises bore a hole in the New Labour soul

26.11.08
The proposed new supertax is little help economically and could end up damaging the party’s broad appeal... more

IRA military campaign has ended say monitors

03.09.08
The IRA is "withering away" and its ruling Army Council is now redundant, Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward says... more

The birthday boy puts the reboot in

31.01.07
Sam Duckworth - aka Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - celebrated his 21st birthday by playing the Astoria. Andre Paine found his music entertaining even if his political rants were confused.... more

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