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Don't show me this message again✕ Boris Johnson will probably hand out many more UK work visas to India (AFP via Getty) I t is sometimes reported that Boris Johnson’s preferred method of decision-making is to delay matters for so long that the decision effectively makes itself. Hence the cancellation, or rather postponement, of his trade mission to India. Having no doubt been informed by his own health advisers that India was to be placed on the “red list” for travel restrictions, the prime minister could hardly press on with his trip. He could have called it off days ago, when the e...

Comments The Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), the largest Irish American organization in the US, has written to President Joe Biden urging him to fill the vacant Northern Ireland Special Envoy position. The AOH wrote to President Biden on April 10, the 23rd anniversary of the singing of the Good Friday Agreement, to express "their concern that increasing violence and inflammatory rhetoric by senior leaders of the Unionist community are a threat to the over two decades of peace the Good Friday Agreement has delivered." Prior to the AOH letter, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki s...

Northern Ireland is back as the most dangerous open wound in British political life Patrick Cockburn © Provided by The Independent On the night of 15 August 1969, a Protestant mob burst into the Catholic part of west Belfast and burned down houses in and around Bombay Street, forcing the Catholic population to flee. The pogrom had a traumatic impact on Catholics in Northern Ireland, delegitimising the authorities for tolerating or assisting the mob, and playing a key role in the creation of the Provisional IRA. On Wednesday night this week, a Protestant mob from the Shankill...

Martin Schirdewan on the violence in Belfast over the past week: “The scenes coming from across the North of Ireland in recent days have been shocking.” “Across the political divide, working class communities have suffered the worst effects of poverty, health inequality, unemployment and conflict. These communities are most damaged by the ongoing health and economic crises. “Young people have nothing to gain by following criminal gangs down the blind alley of communal strife and sectarianism. “In the context of Brexit – which was rejected by the majority in the North of Ireland �...

The real culprit for Northern Ireland’s current unrest is Boris Johnson’s hard-line Brexit The i 6 hrs ago Anna Behrmann © Provided by The i A member of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service extinguishes a JCB digger which was set alight close to the Loyalist Nelson Drive Estate in the Waterside of Derry City, Co. Londonderry (Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire) Prodding fiery old blood-enemies Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness into sharing self-government in Northern Ireland for the first time in 2007 – as I was able to help do under Tony Blair – wasn’t easy. B...