Also: Government demands changes to Protocol to ease restrictions on Westminster providing support to Ulster businesses.
Pessimism is one of unionism’s most debilitating vices; the case for the United Kingdom is stronger than some choose to remember.
Among those who are set to vote for a party in the Assembly elections, we find Sinn Féin in the lead.
Also: Donaldson reiterates DUP threat to collapse Stormont; and Jack comes out swinging for North Sea oil.
This country has done very little to move forward and separate itself from the regulatory grasp of Brussels.
Never before had British and Irish representatives put their names to a formal agreement of this kind as complete equals.
Also: Drakeford strikes a deal with the Welsh Nationalists in Cardiff Bay; Sturgeon insists she’s going nowhere.
Here are six recent examples of how the Prime Minister has been mugged by reality.
Until we see the EU’s offer, we have no way of telling if there has been a breakthrough, a capitulation, or a bluff.
We hear less from the “you signed it!” crowd now Brussels is seeking remedies outside the terms of the agreement.
But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.
The EU insisted on setting aside the Province’s usual requirements for cross-community support. That could have consequences.
We need to deliver a more robust, and more balanced, outcome than we could in 2019.
Also: DUP leader threatens early Stormont election over the Protocol; Scottish Labour councillor defects to the Conservatives.
The UK has made it crystal clear to its trading partners which side of the table it is going to be on.