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WE SAY: Time for those with broadest shoulders to bear more of rates burden

WE SAY: Time for those with broadest shoulders to bear more of rates burden

COMPLAINTS this week from some of the biggest hospitality operators in town over soaring rates bills are easy to dismiss as more whining from the usual quarters.

WE SAY: UUP leader faces many challenges

WE SAY: UUP leader faces many challenges

AS FORMER senior PSNI officer Jon Burrows prepares to take over the leadership of the UUP uncontested, he will be fully aware of the huge challenges that face him. Or at least we think he will be, because Mr Burrows is so fond of an arresting soundbite and accompanying picture that it is sometimes hard to tell what lies beneath the bluster and blow.

WE SAY: Flag row – time to call in the optometrists

WE SAY: Flag row – time to call in the optometrists

THE vacuous debate involving the Communities Minister over the flag to be used to represent these benighted six counties in the Commonwealth Games speaks to a wider problem: the nationalist community of the North is simply still not seen by our former masters.

EDITORIAL: A new dawn over Casement Park

EDITORIAL: A new dawn over Casement Park

ENOUGH’S enough. And not only is enough enough, enough’s enough of us having to say enough’s enough every couple of months.

WE SAY: Here's our New Year's Resolution — reclaim Broadway Towers

WE SAY: Here's our New Year's Resolution — reclaim Broadway Towers

The Squamish Nation of western Canada have a phrase for their approach to community development — their aim is "to manage wealth not manage poverty".

EDITORIAL: A familiar hunger strike story

EDITORIAL: A familiar hunger strike story

THE failure of the Irish and UK media to acknowledge the continuing hunger strike by remand prisoners in England is an eye-opening example of the propaganda that passes for journalism when it comes to the issue of Gaza and Israel.

WE SAY: BBC's blind spot began in North but has spread to their home turf

WE SAY: BBC's blind spot began in North but has spread to their home turf

THERE is something awry with the world when it's impossible to find anywhere on the BBC mention of the fact that UK citizens are on a hunger strike in British prisons in solidarity with the beleaguered people of Palestine.

WE SAY: Unionist response to flying of Palestine flag entirely predictable

WE SAY: Unionist response to flying of Palestine flag entirely predictable

THE loyalist response to the decision by Belfast City Council to fly the Palestine flag over Belfast City Hall was entirely predictable.

WE SAY: DUP enter the battle for the true-blue hearts

WE SAY: DUP enter the battle for the true-blue hearts

FASTEN your seatbelts, we’re in for a bumpy 18 months.

WE SAY: In a contrasting week the DUP speak only to their own

WE SAY: In a contrasting week the DUP speak only to their own

THE refusal of the DUP to send a representative to the inauguration of President Catherine Connolly came as no surprise to observers of the party. And make no mistake – a refusal it was, risible claims of diary clashes notwithstanding.

WE SAY: Now fly the Tricolour at City Hall

WE SAY: Now fly the Tricolour at City Hall

"The arc of the moral universe is long," reflected black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, "but it Bends towards justice."

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IN a world where opinions are free but facts are sacred, there is real value to reliable news.

WE SAY: Halloween horror story is bad for business

WE SAY: Halloween horror story is bad for business

HOW appropriate that the Justice Department at Stormont should choose Halloween as the backdrop for their latest billboard campaign warning of the alleged threat from criminal gangs marauding through West Belfast.

WE SAY: Arts Council go there yet again

WE SAY: Arts Council go there yet again

IN a quite extraordinary development, the Arts Council has again awarded substantial sums of money to loyalist bands which took part in a Shankill parade paying tribute to a UVF killer.

WE SAY: Chief Constable Boutcher gets it wrong again

WE SAY: Chief Constable Boutcher gets it wrong again

DOES PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher simply have no idea what he’s doing? Or does he know full well what he’s doing and just doesn’t care?