One of the more famous political terms is that of the Potemkin Village. A Potemkin Village is ‘… in its original meaning, any of a number of fake villages designed to impress ...

By the time you read this the annual Russian victory parade may have taken place in Moscow. It is now eighty years since the end of the Second World War in Europe and its remembrance perhaps says as ...

The Irish News reports that a Free Presbyterian minister recently came out and said that Pope Francis is “most certainly an antichrist.” Yep, not just suspicious or wrong on a few theological ...

I read that the Police Ombudsman has found that the RUC failed to arrest or interview 11 individuals who had been identified by intelligence as potentially involved in the sectarian murders of 10 men ...

Every time I do a panel; there’s always a smart alec in the crowd. A man, usually. Without doubt he will say, “Yeah, but the British don’t care about you.” He thinks he’s the first person in the world ...

We took tough but right decisions in the budget… because we inherited a broken economy,’ said Starmer today after a close defeat at the Runcorn by-election, and more losses in the council elections.

There’s been a lot of discussion over the years regarding Kneecap, and I thought I’d add my tuppence worth to the debate. From the outset, I’ll say I’m not a fan, nor am I someone the band is ...

I had a vision. A premonition of approximately twenty years into the future: DJ Próvai, his balaclava thrown aside, has just been appointed to Seanad Éireann after previously serving a single term as ...

Mark Durkan (then SDLP leader) coined the phrase ‘ugly scaffolding’ to refer to the ungainly political architecture which underpins the Good Friday Agreement, namely the need for mandatory coalition ...

Donna Moore is from Belfast, and works as an administrator. Northern Ireland remains an outlier in the field of assisted dying – while the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England have all ...

Earlier this morning the humanitarian aid ship Conscience, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was attacked by drones in international waters approximately 14 miles off the coast of Malta. The ...

I was hoping someone else would write about it, but it seems I get the short straw. The f*cks I give about the Kneecap story are vanishingly few, but I suppose some of you want to talk about it.