Speculation is growing that Mike Nesbitt will step down as UUP party leader sometime in the new year. This reflects comments ...

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 ...

The latest report from the ongoing Covid Inquiry will make awkward reading for those who had to make the big decisions during the Pandemic. According to the BBC report… “The UK response to Covid was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...