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Stones Left Unturned: Op Kenova, Collusion and the IRA Assassination of John Bingham
The publication of the Operation Kenova report into a British spy network inside the IRA has left one trail to run cold: Collusion in the murder of…
 • Aaron Edwards
Northern Ireland's Past is an Active Crime Scene
Another week, another refusal by the National Archives to release material into the public domain.
 • Aaron Edwards
Mainland UDA Brigade Stands Down
The London UDA claims to have transitioned into an "old comrades association" – what does this mean for Northern Ireland’s loyalist paramilitaries?
 • Aaron Edwards
UVF to Issue “General Order of Disbandment”
Sources close to the UVF tell me that the group’s leadership is close to making a deal with the British government on what is being referred to as a…
 • Aaron Edwards
Paramilitary Group Transition and the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
Why the process of 'conflict transformation' has failed to tackle paramilitarism
 • Aaron Edwards
The UVF Sink the Wink!
How I broke the news of Winston Irvine's expulsion from the UVF
 • Aaron Edwards
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D-Day for the UVF
It has become clear from further reports finding their way to me from multiple sources that a secret meeting did indeed take place on the Shankill on…
 • Aaron Edwards
Aide Memoire
Aide Memoire
Clear-headed open source investigations and analysis by Aaron Edwards, author, academic and security analyst.
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