Late last week, we heard that the SDLP were putting a motion before the Assembly to call for a border poll. Looking at the ...

The verdict isn’t the calamity which gloomier  searchers for truth and other investigators may fear. It will have a limited ...

An Fear Ciúin lives and works in the Irish midlands. He has a keen interest in medieval and early modern history. He’s ...

The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like. Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.

Slugger’s energetic commissioner asked me to post about what I do all day. Who would be in the slightest interested in such quotidian ennui, I replied. We need to understand how each part of the ...

All three Executive parties took a hit in the latest Lucid Talk poll in yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph. For Sinn Féin it will be concerning, but not yet alarming. But for the DUP it could prompt some ...

As truly awful as October 7 th 2023 was, one of the things that crossed my minds on that horrific, ghastly morning as I followed the news rolling in was how predictable the coming weeks would be. Each ...

In anticipation of Adam Curtis’ new series Shifty, I have been listening to some of his podcast interviews. That gave me an idea to ask ChatGPT to apply the theories of documentary maker Adam Curtis ...

In many quarters, there will be a warm welcome to this week’s announcement by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to set up a Regional Obesity Management Service (ROMS). The community-based service will ...

The older I get, the more my inner Presbyterian asserts itself — and nowhere more so than in my loathing of gambling.Of all the addictions, gambling might just be the most ruinous. You can drink ...

The recent BBC Panorama programme “Special Forces – I Saw War Crimes” was quite shocking, but to many here in the North, totally unsurprising. It was a testimony of some former British Special Forces ...

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.