On 21st of November 2025, Stormont hosted the Disabled People’s Parliament. This is part of a series of people’s parliaments, ...

Over the summer and the autumn I’ve been quietly working away talking to a small number of cross party backbenchers about the work they do in the Assembly as part of a new project we call the Slugger ...

John Rosborough has done his quarterly rummage through the RAJARs again, and this one lands with a thud. BBC Radio Ulster has managed to misplace over 100,000 listeners in twelve months. They were ...

One of my political mentors used to say to me “We will have to go round the countryside shaking the hedges, trying to find some candidates” I had a fair idea what he meant, but more recently I have ...

Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast Axios just reported that Donald Trump proposes that the U.S. and other states ...

The latest report from the ongoing Covid Inquiry will make awkward reading for those who had to make the big decisions during ...

What is really going on between the GPs and our Health Minister? For GPs to pass a motion of no-confidence in our Health ...

Over in the Irish News, Brian Feeney thinks our unloved Assembly is not long for this world. From his article: They need to ...

Tim Cairns is a Senior Policy Manager for CARE Northern Ireland has a gambling problem. Around 3% of people here, roughly 47,000 adults, are experiencing gambling harm. To put that in perspective, ...