Joint British/Irish courts in Northern Ireland were backed by top Conservatives
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George Alan O’Dowd is now returning to the band that made him famous in the first place, as Culture Club reunite to launch a tour by the Dublin docks in 3Arena
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Paul Howard on the Falkland Islands: ‘Coming here confirms the stupid wastefulness of it all’
This was number one on the writer’s bucket list, but a lifelong fascination culminates in a tour that leaves him ‘dark and depressed’
Moira Buffini: ‘I’ve had this love affair with Ireland, and for a long time I just thought it was unrequited’
The writer discusses telepathy, the ‘quiet problem’ facing the world and doing the one thing she said she’d never do
Spycatcher may have one final chapter
Author Tim Tate returns to battle with the Cabinet Office over the release of secret files; perhaps more fodder for the paperback edition
Neale Richmond should know better: calling grown women ‘girls’ is inherently belittling
Imagine anyone calling Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Indira Gandhi ‘the girls’
Privatising monopoly public utilities makes no sense
Experience in UK and with Eir is that private owners don’t invest in networks but just saddle companies with debt and take dividends
Governments need to take record-keeping seriously in the digital age
Disappearing WhatsApp messages will be a problem for future historians
Eyewitness to War and Peace by Eamonn Mallie: recollections of a passing era
Reporter looks back on a lifetime’s work during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
‘They patronise the north’: Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham on why he lost faith in Westminster
Labour veteran is making a bid for a third term as the directly elected mayor and ‘King of the North’
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From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way
Pity by Andrew McMillan: Hardship, disaster and hidden love in Thatcher’s Britain
The debut novel from a writer better known for his poetry is overall a resounding success
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