The Garvaghy Road standoff in Northern Ireland highlights the harsh reality that transitions from conflict are long and fragile processes.

Northern Ireland’s so-called marching season is usually petering out by now. This year looks to be different. On Sunday 27 September, after a 28-year wait and a flurry of last-minute legal challeng…

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Just over two years ago, Jeffrey Donaldson was view by many as the embodiment of mild-mannered respectability. His reputation as a pragmatic operator had been reinforced by his role in brokering the D...

In Northern Ireland, a horrific crime is being manipulated to justify racist violence and the targeting of migrants.

Volunteers and neighbours stepped in to get families to safety

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel

No Mow May is Plantlife’s annual campaign urging everyone to pack away the lawnmower, let wildflowers grow freely and help nature. Whether you’re in a city, town or the countryside, it’s super easy…

Would you know how to respond if someone was taken critically ill? Experts explain the basic skills we can all learn and how to perform them with confidence

An investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland into the murder of showjumper Katie Simpson amounted to a “profound failure” marked by a “culture of misogyny and complacency”, an independent review has concluded.

At Rory McIlroy's home club in Holywood fans cheered him on as he secured his six golf major.

The international human rights system depends on the work of local defenders, but offers them little protection once they become politically inconvenient.

Rubio’s argument that Operation Epic Fury was preemptive self-defense is not credible and does not satisfy the necessary precondition.

Le 28 février, les États-Unis et Israël ont lancé l’opération « Furie épique » contre l’Iran, provoquant une riposte de Téhéran et une extension régionale du conflit. Cette offensive viole-t-elle la C...

Former US president’s part in ending the Troubles threatened by fallout from Epstein scandal, which has tainted his former envoy, George Mitchell

Is PM really serious about good governance, tackling abuse of power?

Abstract. This article analyses the approach of the Northern Ireland courts to interpretation of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in the context of t

On 3 January 2025, the US carried out a military operation on Venezuelan territory that culminated in the capture and removal of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. This operation plainly breaches Article 2(...

Experts survey the international law issues of Operation Absolute Resolve.

Discover Foundation of Goodness, a non-profit organization uplifting rural Sri Lanka through education, empowerment, and sustainable development programs.

If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...

This article argues that the deployment of artificial intelligence, even in its strong fully autonomous form, does not have significant consequences for the application of the jus ad bellum framework,...

Introduction On 11 August, a piece from Professor Richard Ekins KC (Hon) set out a case for the UK denouncing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and leaving the treaty system altogether. O...

During my work placement at the University of Liverpool’s Science Fiction Collections in April to May 2025, I came across a striking letter from Ursula K. Le Guin, dated 1979 and addressed to Briti…

Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind

In the fog of war along the Cambodia–Thailand border, one truth cuts through the propaganda: more civilians are dying than soldiers. Despite claims fro...

There is something rotten about leveraging an expression of long-standing culture and tradition to deliver a contemporary declaration of racist hate

Human rights activists fear the move approved by lawmakers could be used to target political opponents.

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