Fixing our crippled NHS is a life-and-death issue, yet politicians pay it lip service and then make a beeline for Drumcree Belfast Telegraph By: Sam McBride 25 October 2026 at 07:00 For at least a decade politicians have known gravity of the situation but keep choosing populism over courage and leadership
Rhinos, Provos and loyalist terror bosses: Northern Ireland has become the land of the absurd where words have lost their meaning Belfast Telegraph By: Sam McBride 24 October 2026 at 07:18 Society is pretending all is well, when deeply abnormal behaviour has become not only acceptable but encouraged
Jeffrey Donaldson’s incessant trips to the developing world raise dark new questions about shadow career abroad Belfast Telegraph By: Sam McBride 18 October 2026 at 07:00 DUP leader visited African country ten times in less than three years, helped flog weapons alongside a British general, and worked with special forces officer
London shouldn’t give Stormont any more money — extra cash has been perversely making things worse Belfast Telegraph By: Sam McBride 17 October 2026 at 07:25 The Executive is an emperor with no clothes: It’s strutting around buck naked and far too many people who know this are silent
Jeffrey Donaldson was a key and ‘very keen’ British asset in sensitive west African conflict, paid thousands while Irish Sea border was emerging Belfast Telegraph By: Sam McBride 16 October 2026 at 05:51 Documents obtained by this newspaper show prized role working with Cameroonian dictator’s forces, luxury hotel stays, and large sums of money
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