Analysis
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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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Diane Dodds: A vision for the renewable electricity sector
Department for the Economy Minister Diane Dodds sets out her ambitions for renewable energy in Northern Ireland ahead of the…
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A perspective on planning: Jim Mackinnon
Former Chief Planner and Director for the Built Environment with the Scottish Government Jim Mackinnon offers his observations of the…
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A level and GCSE Results in 2020: This year it was (and still is) personal!
The spotlight shone on this year’s exam results process served to highlight the long-standing recognition of the influence of social…
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Reconsidering representations of a complex past
Academics Joanne Murphy and Sara McDowell outline the ongoing debate around the future of historic public memorials in Northern Ireland…
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