DUP MLA for South Antrim Trevor Clarke took to his Facebook page with the following post: I nearly fell off my chair this ...

Stormont is a very peculiar institution. In the same week that the Finance Minister, John O’Dowd called for additional tax ...

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 ...

What is really going on between the GPs and our Health Minister? For GPs to pass a motion of no-confidence in our Health Minister last weekend is unusual, for them to talk of investigating a future ...

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 ...

Over in the Irish News, Brian Feeney thinks our unloved Assembly is not long for this world. From his article: They need to face the reality that unionists don’t want to share power with nationalists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here, he uses his new election projection site to see how reform might ...

Reunification will come, but not necessarily soon, and not by wishful thinking. The combined nationalist vote still sits at roughly forty per cent, with no credible plan to move it beyond fifty, in a ...

Fintan O’Toole is the nearest thing Ireland gets to a public intellectual: a writer of erudition and intellect who tackles the political and cultural issues of the day and of the nation through a ...

In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break. So discuss what you like here, but no politics.