Those of us who are long in the tooth knew the Labour Government would be bad, but even I was surprised at how catastrophically inept it has proven. Maybe that is the consequence of never having held ...

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Our education system in Northern Ireland is a benign form of apartheid, which is fundamentally damaging to our society. We are prepared to operate a system which separates our children almost entirely ...