Brian Feeney: Why do unionist leaders say the future can be the same as the past?
Do unionist politicians have in their minds some ideal year that they’d like to return to?
Brian Feeney: Sinn Féin has no idea how to run a party but won’t trust ‘strangers’
Ignorance and incompetence thrive because party is reluctant to ditch long-term party apparatchiks
Feeney on Friday: How Ireland was left with the last imperial border in Europe
The British and French were the only belligerents in World War I whose empires survived intact
Brian Feeney: PSNI must serve the people instead of protecting the RUC
Loughinisland case and treatment of journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey shows need for root and branch reform of PSNI governance and increase in powers and finance for Police Ombudsman
Feeney on Friday: How the British laid ground for Middle East instability
Iraq and the former land of Mesopotamia is another fateful legacy of British imperialism
Brian Feeney: The only way to put loyalist gangs out of business is take their money away
There is that no incentive for paramilitary groups to transition – in fact there is every reason to stay in business
Brian Feeney on Friday: Why Iran will never forgive Britain and the US
Imperial meddling in oil-rich Iran’s affairs has left it virulently anti-US/UK
Brian Feeney: Nervous Keir Starmer will seek to maintain Father Ted ‘Careful now’ approach to EU
Given the infighting in his government in last three months, Labour leader can’t afford to open another front about EU reset
Brian Feeney on Friday: Lebanon and the tragic legacy of colonial control
French took special interest in Lebanon as protector of Christians in the Ottoman empire
Brian Feeney: Sinn Féin has to square the circle of housing and immigration in Dáil election
The coalition’s giveaway budget makes Mary Lou McDonald’s job harder
Feeney on Friday: Is it any wonder there’s so much sympathy in Ireland for Palestinians?
The Balfour declaration sowed the seeds of what has become the most violent, bitter and enduring conflict of the last century
Brian Feeney: Gavin Robinson’s ‘new’ approach looks remarkably like the failed one of recent years
Boring DUP conference offers no clue about reform plans
Feeney on Friday: How Britain and France re-drew the map of the Middle East
The ramifications of the deal to divide the Ottoman empire struck in 1916 still live with us today
Brian Feeney: Producing a Programme for Government is above Stormont’s pay grade
Stormont plan has been roundly criticised as waffle and gobbledegook
Brian Feeney: Does Dublin not realise the British would love rid of this place?
The Irish government is unique in the world for having an objective in its constitution but no plan to achieve it