I am going to return to the theme of my last blog earlier this month: the need for a forum to discuss not the constitutional ...

There are historical examples where companies did indeed run countries but not for the good of the citizens. The British East ...

The Look North Festival is back this Friday and will run throughout the weekend, promoting the best of North Belfast. We are ...

More opinion poll data from LucidTalk in the Belfast Telegraph (February 24th 2025), suggesting that 48% of their NI sample ...

I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not ...

Ah, Brexit, the biggest act of self-sabotage in UK history, continues to have its ripples.  The FT reports that Irish ...

Friedrich Merz looks like he will be the next German Chancellor. Where his predecessors were ambivalent about European ...

It is unusual for NI to have a period of more than two years between elections. It has only happened twice before in the last ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

On Wednesday (19 February), the Executive Office confirmed that its “flagship project”, a new £671 million children’s hospital development on the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, had received ...

Since I first began writing about Unionism, I have watched its influence wane, its relevance fade, and its voice grow weaker. What was once a formidable political force now struggles to find direction ...