Newton Emerson: Police back-pedalling, Stormont stone-walling and a plague of biting insects
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week’s news
Newton Emerson: Is enforced education really the best way to reach ‘neets’?
Plan to make it compulsory to remain school or training until 18 will be difficult to enforce
Newton Emerson: Everyone wants loyalist paramilitary gangs to go away - including UVF and UDA ‘members’
A look back at the week that was in the news
Newton Emerson: How competitions can change thinking and get government moving
A dramatic expansion of government competitions could be applied to transport and housing problems
Newton Emerson: Loyalist ‘transition’, Michael McMonagle and Belfast gridlock – looking back over the week that was in the news
A look back at the week that was in the news...
Newton Emerson: Do people really want to rejoin the EU?
Few people cared about EU when we were in, so how much will they want to go back?
Newton Emerson: Farmers may own the land, but Stormont owns them
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week that was in the news
Newton Emerson: Why not copy rest of world and let councils run roads?
Absurd that Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd is responsible for all 16,000 miles of road and 6,000 miles of pavement in Northern Ireland
Newton Emerson: Hill Street blues sum up Stormont’s uselessness
Our Saturday columnist offers his inimitable take on the week that was in the news
UUP opposition to budget could signal next Stormont crisis – Newton Emerson
If the UUP cannot fully commit to the executive, it should join the SDLP in opposition
Could city deals be the real deal? – Newton Emerson
Newton Emerson offers his unique take on the week that was
Labour wants to tell a gloomy story – but could its tale come true? – Newton Emerson
The problem with a message of pain now and reward later is that it has a real economic impact that may simply cause pain
Newton Emerson: Clear that government intends Finucane inquiry to be the last
Our Saturday columnist takes a look back at the week that was in the news...
Charging developers is far from perfect but is it only solution to sewage crisis? – Newton Emerson
In absence of politically-difficult decision on water charges, a developer charge may be only plausible alternative
Newton Emerson: Programme for government should be short on words and long on delivery
Test of Stormont’s long-overdue programme for government should be brevity