The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act expressly provides in Section 19 for an immunity system. Yet Sir Declan Morgan, the judge overseeing the process, says an adverse judgment will kill it.
Also: Scottish Government urged to accelerate public sector reforms and overhaul council tax.
Some projects that had previously been announced were included, as were some projects that had even been completed. Some of the announcements related to local projects for which the decision to proceed rested with regional mayors not central government.
We might not rejoin, but the political momentum is now with those seeking a closer relationship. From a Brexiteer perspective, Johnson is sounding rather complacent.
Also: Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland grapple with RAAC in schools and health buildings; ex-SNP MP receives trivial fine for embezzlement as short-term lets sector revolts against Scottish Government’s new licencing regime.
Also: Scottish Government’s legal regulation reforms denounced by judges and lawyers; Ross offers to work with Nationalist rebels to break Greens’ grip on government; new scandal for PSNI as High Court finds it illegally disciplined officers.
Even before the names and details of ten thousand personnel were leaked, the PSNI was already losing one member a day. Exposed to dissident republican terrorism, how many more will quit?
Giving the green light to reviving the NILP could be a less-controversial way for Labour to organise in the Province. What could be more balanced than having two sister parties, one nationalist and one unionist?
The role of the presidency has changed dramatically in the last three decades, and what had previously been considered fairly dull elections have been enlivened in recent years with a range of different candidates and visions for the office.
The Windsor Framework renders us worse off in terms of the Irish Sea border and creates greater checks and barriers to trade with the rest of the UK compared to what we have experienced thus far with grace periods and easements.
The Windsor Framework is not workable. Its flaws and unworkability are already apparent and will quickly become more so.
Also: DUP and Heaton-Harris in staring match over extra funding as Rishi Sunak rules out coalition with the Unionists at Westminster.
The Belfast Agreement decoupled Northern Ireland’s constitutional future from day-to-day elected politics, but the pro-UK parties failed to adapt.
To mark the 40th anniversary of the murder of Edgar Graham by the Provisional IRA, this is an adaptation of the chapter on his assassination from Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism by Lord Godson.