Politics
The peace ministry of Alec Reid
JOHN McFALL
The peace ministry of Alec Reid
Throughout my interest in Irish politics, and during my time in the Northern Ireland Office, the name of Fr. Alec Reid featured regularly. I never had the privilege of meeting him but I heard many a reference from Nationalist and Unionists about the role he played in helping to broker a successful outcome to the peace process. Continue reading
The Balfour Declaration: text and contexts
WARREN BARDSLEY
A Methodist minister who campaigns for a just peace in Palestine/Israel considers the contexts and consequences of the 67-word Balfour Declaration of November 2017 which made public the British Government’s support for the establishment of a ‘Jewish home’. Continue reading
A Chink of Light?
TOM DEVINE.
Scotland’s best known historian reflects on the possibility that Brexit may not happen. Continue reading
Brexit, borders and peace in Ireland
EAMONN CULLEN.
An Irishman who has lived in Scotland for many years considers the potential impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland’s peace settlement and the prospect of a new border between the Republic and the North, which voted to remain. Continue reading