Many Americans I meet in Europe are embarrassed by Trump and say that he doesn’t represent the real America. When you ...

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a line from the unfinished essay A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A claim, hard to stand up these days when too much poetry has ...

Frank Schnittger is the author of Sovereignty 2040, a future history of how Irish re-unification might work out. He has worked in business in Dublin and London and, on a voluntary basis, for charities ...

Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe.

The decision made by Secretary of State Hilary Benn MP with regard to the Stormont Brake can be added to the litany of ...

Note: the image above is from a Ukrainian newspaper in 1994 and was used as the cover of Jérôme’s PhD dissertation on the ...

Political chaos seems to have become more ubiquitous these past few years. Between the antics of the British Parliament ...

In the United States Democratic Senator John Fetterman caused a brief stir on social media when he showed up at Donald’s ...

One of my former managers had a catchphrase “tolerance of ambiguity” to the effect that one of the qualities that ...

The Cost of Political Appointments The recent conviction of Sinn Féin press officer Michael McMonagle for serious child sex ...

A little over a month ago Unionist parties pulled the Stormont Brake to block new EU rules on the packaging and labeling of ...

December 2024 saw the 25th anniversary of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly To mark this significant ...