Janan Ganesh in the FT writes about the downsides of our democratic system, and why it’s so hard to get anything done: In ...

Vigilante Groups of (mainly) men are patrolling the Ravenhill and Ormeau areas at night, stopping ‘foreigners’ and asking ...

For the past fortnight I have been ashamed to be Irish. The savage beating and humiliation of an Indian IT worker – only ...

Slogger is a North Antrim retiree and latecomer to political discourse. I need to preface this wee article by stating that ...

For the past few weeks the moderator team has been reviewing our comment policies. The new guidelines have been developed ...

Bonfires don’t play the same role in Republicanism that they do in the Loyalist and Unionist celebrations around the Twelfth. An earlier tradition of lighting bonfires to celebrate the Catholic feast ...

El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast With the nights already drawing in (sorry about that!), it won’t be long before ...

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey recently wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian arguing that Britain should strengthen its ties with ...

Andrew McClean is the Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead at Cycling UK All this week, both the media and social media have hailed ...

It has been nearly two hundred years since the Great Famine which saw one million people die, one million emigrate and which ...

Just as predicted, the big Lough has seen the return of the dreaded Blue-Green Algae. The usual keyboard warriors are ...

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