Why Sinn Fein can't really apologise for the IRA's atrocities
What are we to make of Sinn Fein’s latest experiment with the language of regret when it comes to the…
Northern Ireland's sink estates are fertile ground for fundamentalists
Northern Ireland is routinely voted one of the happiest places to live in the UK. A few weeks ago, a…
No, jail staff shouldn't call prisoners 'residents'
What do you call someone in prison? An inmate? Prisoner? How about a ‘resident’? That’s how those locked up in…
Are loyalists plotting a return to violence?
What are we to make of Loyalist paramilitary groups withdrawing support for the Good Friday Agreement over the invidious trade…
Unionists should work with the Irish Taoiseach
Sinn Fein is not a normal political party. Don’t take my word for it, the charge is laid by the…
Britain's prisons are a breeding ground for Islamist terror
Was Reading terrorist Khairi Saadallah radicalised behind bars? What we do know is that locking Saadallah in HMP Bullingdon to develop…
The terror threat inside our prisons
Later today, two men will be sentenced for their part in the attempted murder of a prison officer at high…
Beware Sinn Fein’s Trojan horse
I got my first Irish passport a few months ago. It felt like a vaguely transgressive gesture because my primary…
Terror cells: how Britain’s prisons became finishing schools for extremists
Our prisons are fuelling radicalism, not fighting it
Can our prison system ‘cure’ convicted terrorists?
We’ve just celebrated the birth of a refugee who went on to radicalise a group of fishermen and transform the…
Tommy Robinson is no martyr. Here’s how to stop him becoming one
We might not care for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon but we should care very much about what happens to him in prison…
How Rory Stewart can save the Tories
What does Rory Stewart’s time at the helm as prisons minister tell us about his fitness to lead the Conservative party…
Inmates and Islamism
In response to the Westminster attack, a 100-strong new counter-extremism taskforce has been announced to deal with the terrorist threat…
