Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
John Major
‘I will not be intimidated’: But has Rupert Murdoch met his nemesis in Donald Trump?
The US president has issued a $10bn lawsuit against the media mogul’s empire – the very one that eased his path to power
Alan Gilsenan: ‘I would have had a dreamy, artsy-fartsy notion that a united Ireland would be great’
In The Irish Question, his new documentary, the film-maker asks what reunification of the island would really mean
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
Voices of the dead speak again, telling unheard stories of the IRA ceasefire 30 years on
New writing and never-previously broadcast interviews bring alive the negotiations and nervousness before a critical moment in the Belfast peace process
Denis Bradley: ‘Partition doesn’t work, never has worked, never will work’
The former priest who played a key role in the peace process reflects on the backchannel that enabled dialogue between the IRA and the UK government
It doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional
Class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity in some City firms
John Bruton was more complex than his ‘nice, straightforward, violently anti-IRA’ reputation suggests
Some of Bruton’s admirers think his role in the peace process has been unduly neglected
Dick Spring: ‘I don’t want to sound like I’m lecturing or hectoring young people’
Having helped pave the way for the Downing Street Declaration and peace in Northern Ireland, the former Labour leader is wary of being seen to preach to generations with no memory of the Troubles
How the Downing Street Declaration took shape: ‘He chewed the b****x off me but I took a few lumps out of him’
The Joint Declaration has often been taken for granted in the 30 years since, but it was arguably more significant than the Belfast Agreement that followed
John Major: terms for UK calling Border poll in North should be spelled out
Former British PM says Belfast Agreement should be ‘tweaked’ in speech at Irish embassy in London
Tributes paid to Peter Brooke, 89, who played ‘pivotal role’ in peace process
Northern secretary who declared Britain had no ‘strategic or economic interest’ in NI was forced to resign after ‘Late Late Show’ song
Fintan O’Toole: Shape of Belfast Agreement was in many respects as predictable as a rabbit in a magician’s hat
Political theatre helped to disguise the fact that the Belfast Agreement was a conjuring act to wipe the memory that most of it had already been agreed long ago
IRA bomb in Warrington ‘almost made me give up’ on peace, says John Major
Irish Government represented at 30th anniversary commemoration of attack that killed two children
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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