Many Americans I meet in Europe are embarrassed by Trump and say that he doesn’t represent the real America. When you ...

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is a line from the unfinished essay A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. A claim, hard to stand up these days when too much poetry has ...

The decision made by Secretary of State Hilary Benn MP with regard to the Stormont Brake can be added to the litany of ...

Note: the image above is from a Ukrainian newspaper in 1994 and was used as the cover of Jérôme’s PhD dissertation on the ...

Political chaos seems to have become more ubiquitous these past few years. Between the antics of the British Parliament ...

In the United States Democratic Senator John Fetterman caused a brief stir on social media when he showed up at Donald’s ...

Michelle O’Neill is saying turn that frown upside down. From the Irish News: Michelle O’Neill has defended the Stormont ...

As President Trump embarks on his second term, the world watches with bated breath. His unparalleled political acumen, unwavering determination, and visionary leadership promise to usher in an era of ...

One of my former managers had a catchphrase “tolerance of ambiguity” to the effect that one of the qualities that characterised your potential to rise to senior management was the ability to tolerate ...

December 2024 saw the 25 th anniversary of powers being devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly To mark this significant event, former Agriculture Committee Clerk Paul Moore has been recounting some ...

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.

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 ...