In 1971 a counter-insurgency manual set out an operational response to non-violent direct action protest movements as well as military insurgencies like the Provision IRA in Northern Ireland, drawing on the UK's colonial experience. Today, it holds a surprise for a new reader.
While the voting day on tuition fees is fast approaching, a substantial number of Lib Dem MPs have not yet declared their hand. Journalist Tom Griffin has compiled a list of all the Liberal MPs, indicating how they are likely to vote on Thursday.
It is not clear what unites political unionism in Northern Ireland in its present form.
Is the British government talking to dissident republicans?
Did journalists do enough to defend human rights during the troubles in Northern Ireland? That was a key question in a fascinating debate in Belfast last week under the auspices of Amnesty International and Féile an Phobail.
The Northern Ireland Executive mounted a striking show of unity in the face of several nights of violence in Belfast this week, as the marching season reached its annual 12
After years of taking years of evidence and an expenditure of nearly £200 million, a British Inquiry has dispassionately concluded that the army paratroopers shot 14 innocent people in 1971 without justification, an event that convinced many Northern Ireland Catholics that war had been declared up
When former Red Hand Commando Bobby Moffatt was shot dead in Belfast last month, senior loyalists suggested that the killing was the work of rogue elements. Stormont Assembly member Dawn
How do you document the history of a conflict in which illegal organisations are among the central players? Voices from the Grave, by the veteran Northern Ireland correspondent Ed Moloney, is an intriguing attempt to answer that question.
It is often said in favour of the Westminster electoral system that it tends to provide the voter with straightforward choices. The opening days of the campaign in Northern Ireland
When financial markets collapsed in 2008, it was widely seen as the end of an era dominated by neoliberalism. Is the left making the most of the opportunity to fill the vacuum? That's the question at the heart of After the Crash - re-inventing the the left in Britain, a new e-book available free f
