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What I love about elections outside Northern Ireland is seeing how different jurisdictions do theirs differently – figuring out what works better in...
A new book on the Alliance Party is being launched today in Belfast. A survey of its membership, which has already published some hugely significant...
The SDLP gathered last weekend to formally elect their new leader. Claire Hanna takes over the once-dominant party of Irish nationalism, which, over...
The recent DUP conference has provoked a debate about where the dominant party of unionism goes next. I have been attending DUP conferences since 2014...
We have a draft Programme for Government for the first time in eight years. A Northern Ireland Executive has produced a list of policy approaches and...
There they go again: the Ulster Unionists are seeking another new leader, following the resignation of Doug Beattie. This will be their sixth since...
The dust has settled on the general election. What was predicted to be a predictable and boring outcome proved anything but. Whilst the headline...
Change is coming to the United States in January 2025. The Biden era will be over in six months. Greeting us will either be Donald Trump’s second...
We need to talk about the co-option system in the assembly - the one that allows for MLAs to be replaced without any return to the public means that a...
Tomorrow is election day. You will go to the polls and cast your vote in what could be the most consequential Westminster election in two decades....
Ireland’s Future was back with another event at the SSE Arena last weekend. I know these events always spark a debate about how representative and...
I did not really believe it until I saw it. For months, pundits and analysts wondered whether the TUV would ever fulfil its promise to stand in many...
Fifty years ago this week, the Ulster Workers’ Council strike was in full flight, bringing Northern Ireland to its knees over the Sunningdale...
‘It’s all over bar the voting’. That famous headline from 2002 in the Irish Republic is now being used by analysts and commentators in the...
Simon Harris has become the new taoiseach. He takes over with just under a year left in this government’s mandate, with local and European elections...
Ireland is facing a general election within the next 10 months, and those of us who pay attention to the longer-term trends in Irish politics wonder...
The quote from former American President John F Kennedy about victory having a thousand fathers but defeat being an orphan went through my mind as the...
Seeing the bigger picture can be difficult in politics. The demands to improve public services and sort out problems quickly can often distract from...
The Executive is now in its 11th day in office after a two-year absence of devolution. Ministers are busy tackling the major backlog of decisions that...
On March 8, voters in the Republic will head to the polls to give their view on two constitutional amendments. As the respective campaigns get...
Last Sunday marked the 59th anniversary of the historic summit between Unionist Prime Minister Terence O’Neill and Taoiseach Sean Lemass, which was...
One thing we know for sure this year is that it is an election year. The slight possibility of the Westminster election being held in 2025 was killed...
On the most recent edition of Sunday Politics on BBC Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionist leader, Doug Beattie, was asked about whether his party...
A centre-right government came to power in New Zealand last week.
A centre-right government came to power in New Zealand last week.