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Party has made a concerted effort to use the legal system to muzzle the media as well as political opponents who have dared to criticise it
Whatever Rishi Sunak’s reason for keeping Chris Heaton-Harris in post, it can’t have been because a single person in Northern Ireland advised him he was doing a good job.
Pressure is mounting on civil servants or the Secretary of State to urgently act over a failure to make a technical change to legislation which is leaving people at risk of needlessly going blind and losing their teeth.
Two separate events on either side of the Border last Tuesday could entail a crucial moment of overreach by Sinn Féin. On Tuesday, Belfast High Court witheringly rebuked Michelle O’Neill for wasting court time attempting to secure hefty compensation for libel over a Facebook jibe.
In February, the Government let it be known it was to prioritise reform of defamation law this year — in part as a result of what was then described as “Sinn Féin’s chilling legal strategy to silence media and opponents”.