I write this piece as a gentle challenge. A few years ago, I wrote on Slugger, “As I’ve got older, I’ve realised that as a ...

TE Lawrence is a Slugger regular from Belfast As the UK celebrates the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe during World War ...

Sam McBride had an excellently thought-provoking article this week arguing for a new flag for Northern Ireland in the Belfast ...

The Education Reform Group of Reclaim the Enlightenment has commissioned an opinion poll by Lucid Talk on the Transfer Test.

Here we go again. Two nuclear-armed neighbours, one disputed region, and yet another burst of airstrikes to keep the cycle ...

One of the more famous political terms is that of the Potemkin Village. A Potemkin Village is ‘… in its original meaning, any ...

By the time you read this the annual Russian victory parade may have taken place in Moscow. It is now eighty years since the ...

The Irish News reports that a Free Presbyterian minister recently came out and said that Pope Francis is “most certainly an ...

Every time I do a panel; there’s always a smart alec in the crowd. A man, usually. Without doubt he will say, “Yeah, but the ...

I read that the Police Ombudsman has found that the RUC failed to arrest or interview 11 individuals who had been identified ...

Mark Durkan (then SDLP leader) coined the phrase ‘ugly scaffolding’ to refer to the ungainly political architecture which ...

There’s been a lot of discussion over the years regarding Kneecap, and I thought I’d add my tuppence worth to the debate.