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Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiescence.

There is confusion over the future of PSNI deputy chief constable Mark Hamilton after neither of the two bodies to which he is to be seconded would confirm that is still happening.

Labour is well ahead of the opinion polls with a general election looming.

The Policing Board decided three months ago not to discipline PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton, it has been belatedly revealed, as questions grow over his future.

Decades from now, historians might look back and wonder at how little Irish unity campaigners made of their unprecedented opportunity in the years after 2016. It is now approaching eight years since Brexit, yet even the basics of a united Ireland proposition are missing.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faced ferocious criticism from senior party colleagues on Tuesday night, as his claims about the Irish Sea border were described by another peer who campaigned with him as “deception”.

For years the term ‘evangelical’ has been associated with right-wing republicans in the US and the DUP in Northern Ireland, but far more Northern Irish Catholics than previously thought identify with the Christian term, according to new research.

It was the moment the DUP was meant to trumpet its great victory for the Union — but instead visually demonstrated how Northern Ireland is isolated and the DUP divided.

It’s a work of captivating genius which conveys the entwined complexity and contradiction of Britain and Ireland’s long relationship more powerfully than many thick books on the subject. The scale of the painting — 10 feet by seven feet — is as monumental as the subject, compelling attention.

A year from now, Sir Keir Starmer will almost certainly be Prime Minister. If rumours of a May 2 election are true, he could be in Downing Street in just 69 days.