[Oisin Kearney]
As a fragmented Labour finds in the equally shattered economy a reason to keep its tragic hero Gordon Brown at the helm, the topic of the Northern Ireland peace process has been forced to the periphery of the government’s concern.
Tuesday 23rd September began like any other day in Ireland: cold. But as I headed […]
Institutionalised conflict – the Battle of Stormont
Why the language of the political spectrum is wrong
[James Sharpe]
When people think of the British Nationalist Party, they think ‘rightwing’. Whenever the BNP is mentioned on the television or in a newspaper, it is inevitably accompanied by the words “the far-right party”. Because the BNP calls itself a nationalist party, the media, instead of looking into the substance of BNP policy, have automatically […]
Faith schools
[Olivia Hanks]
Krishna-Avanti primary school, which opened this September in Edgware, is Britain’s first Hindu state school. While it cannot actually ban children from non-Hindu families, it will, like other state-funded religious schools, be permitted to discriminate on grounds of religion if it is oversubscribed. In practice, then, there will not be a single child in […]