Analysis
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The changed faces of unionism
With a year to go until Northern Ireland’s Assembly election and in a year marking 100 years since the partition…
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Cross-border health cooperation ‘natural’ and ‘logical’
With few exceptions, cross-border health collaboration has been “minimalist and often project specific”, says Ulster University’s Deirdre Heenan, who argues…
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Homelessness crisis
A rush back to ‘normal’ would be a failure to recognise the pre-existing homelessness crisis in Northern Ireland, writes David…
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Vaccine hesitancy
The Department of Health has said that it does not routinely record reasons why people are choosing not to be…
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The creation of Northern Ireland: Home rule for unionists
Current debates over the future of the union, which focus on the question of Scottish independence, and what format it…
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New decade, same approach
An Executive split on many issues, delays in delivery of crucial reforms and a bleak economic outlook: one year on…
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Budget: Public spending outlook bleak
Despite headline figures of Covid support emerging from the UK budget, the long-term outlook for public spending in Northern Ireland…
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Victims’ rights to investigation and participation
Amnesty International’s Patrick Corrigan welcomes the co-design process approach being adopted for “a human rights-compliant investigation into a litany of…
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Scrutiny in the Assembly
The removal of the committee stage from all of the Bills that have been enacted in the current mandate raises…
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A ‘slower’ hard Brexit
Despite Boris Johnson’s claim that the Christmas Eve agreement represented a “good deal for the whole of Europe”, the actual…
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