Jeffrey Dudgeon
Jeffrey Dudgeon – co-founder of the gay rights movement in Northern Ireland and author of ‘Roger Casement:The Black Diaries’ -- sits on Belfast City Council with the DUP.
Download Publication Online Reader Policy Exchange today reveals the huge £2 billion+ cost to the taxpayer of Northern Ireland Legacy Payments, Inquiries and Inquests.This sum includes an estimated £840 million – £1.4 billion of costs already incurred and an estimated £1.3 billion of costs which will be incurred in the future. These estimates are conservative. Depending on what decisions are taken by the Government, future costs could be significantly greater. […]
Brandon Lewis, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in the briefest of Commons statements this week, announced a “statute of limitations, to apply equally to all Troubles-related incidents”. To understand how radical this move was, you need only look at his predecessor’s 2014 Stormont House Agreement – and the misguided reaction, yesterday, the Irish Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, who wrongly claimed that the announcement was a breach of the […]
Jeffrey Dudgeon – co-founder of the gay rights movement in Northern Ireland and author of ‘Roger Casement:The Black Diaries’ -- sits on Belfast City Council with the DUP. As a long time political and cultural opponent of their approach, he finds them to be surprisingly flexible in practice on gay rights and other social issues. Policy Exchange Director Dean Godson, author of Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism, writes for the Sunday Times on the wider issues round the Conservative Party’s relations with the DUP.
