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Boris Johnson is warned of ‘dangerous political vacuum’ in Northern Ireland Rory Carroll, Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Northern Ireland is in a dangerous political vacuum and could “fall over” unless the UK government acts swiftly, according to a cross-party group of former cabinet ministers with experience in the region. Boris Johnson needs to show more urgency and focus to ameliorate Brexit’s damage to th...

Senior political, religious and policing figures raise violence concerns in open letter to PM Boris Johnson Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged to act Connla Young Former Secretary of State Peter Hain A GROUP of high profile political, policing and religious figures have penned an open letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to act in the wake of recent loyalist violence. Signatories include four former Secretaries of State Peter Hai...

When art needs an essay to be understood By Robert Nelson Save Normal text size ACCA until 15 March There’s an ingenious drawing machine at ACCA. On a raised platform, an armature pulls at 100 strings in a linear backward and forward motion. The strings run up the wall, fly across the space and tug at pieces of charcoal moored to the opposite wall. Tracing inscriptions 2020, installation view Credit:ACCA / Robert Andrew / Andrew Curtis The resulting drawings resonate with one another in an...

John Major blocked Irish famine event over apology A typical rural Irish house in the 19th century Éamon Phoenix Former British Prime Minister John Major. Picture by Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire Proposals to mark the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine with an ecumenical service in Liverpool to coincide with President Mary Robinson’s first visit to the UK were vetoed in 1996 by Prime Minister John Major. Newly-released files show the service had been mooted for...

CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2020 / 04:48 pm (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Switzerland are voicing opposition to a legal measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in the country, calling the proposal “fraught with numerous administrative, legal and ethical difficulties.” The Swiss senate on Dec. 1 passed a bill entitled “Marriage for All,” which had been debated in the Swiss parliament since its introduction by the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland in 2013. It would legalize same-sex marria...