The world has been reeling in the past 10 days since President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s cruel two-handed ...

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Micheal MARTIN, Irish Taoiseach In my previous blog here: Speaking right: What an Taoiseach should say in Washington I gave an account of my experiences in ...

Mark Carney, the former central banker who oversaw the response to financial crises in North America and the UK, will become the next prime minister of Canada after winning the race to lead the ...

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 prospect of a £1.6bn contract for the Thales missile factory in east Belfast to deliver 5,000 lightweight missiles to Ukraine shows that Northern Ireland has a role to play in world affairs. (Gail ...

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.

The PfG also sets some specific targets, to be completed by the end of the Executive mandate in 2027. These include investing up to £135m a year to reduce waiting lists, starting work on 5,850 new ...

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May was in Belfast earlier this week where she addressed the Literific society at Queen’s University and answered questions. Unsurprisingly, people in the ...

I don’t live in Belfast, but I am looking forward to going to a gig in Belfast this evening. I enjoy live music and live shows, but know that in Belfast we can be fairly limited in what shows we get ...

In a former life I was, for my sins, a speech writer and video producer for three successive Managing Directors of Guinness, later to become Diageo. The job was to promote the brand, to burnish the ...

Imagine! Festival of Ideas & Politics is back with a week-long programme to help you make sense of a crazy world. More than 90 events across seven days, with the festival organisers collaborating with ...

“…planning must precede a crisis rather than follow it, ensuring that shocks lead to constructive reform, rather than losses in resilience.” –Confronting the ...