In the early evening of 23 February 1820, some twenty men assembled in a small hayloft above a stable in Cato Street, off the Edgware Road in London. They were led by Arthur Thistlewood, a
Colin Reid
Going by the polarised social media reaction over the past few days, Martin McGuinness is as divisive in death as he was in life. But whatever you think of him and the politics he represented,
Later this year, the people of Scotland will vote either to remain in the United Kingdom or to become an independent state. One hundred years ago today, Ireland stood on the cusp of self-government in