The world has been reeling in the past 10 days since President Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance’s cruel two-handed ...

If you fancy a career change, have you considered applying for the new post of Ulster Scots commissioner? Don’t worry as the Irish News reports you don’t even need to be able to speak it: The head of ...

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 ...

Imagine! Festival of Ideas & Politics is back with a week-long programme to help you make sense of a crazy world. More than 90 events across seven days, with the festival organisers collaborating with ...

In a former life I was, for my sins, a speech writer and video producer for three successive Managing Directors of Guinness, later to become Diageo. The job was to promote the brand, to burnish the ...

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.

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May was in Belfast earlier this week where she addressed the Literific society at Queen’s University and answered questions. Unsurprisingly, people in the ...

I don’t live in Belfast, but I am looking forward to going to a gig in Belfast this evening. I enjoy live music and live shows, but know that in Belfast we can be fairly limited in what shows we get ...

The PfG also sets some specific targets, to be completed by the end of the Executive mandate in 2027. These include investing up to £135m a year to reduce waiting lists, starting work on 5,850 new ...

“…planning must precede a crisis rather than follow it, ensuring that shocks lead to constructive reform, rather than losses in resilience.” –Confronting the ...

Imagine that a close relative of yours has been assaulted by someone employed as a carer, they were vulnerable and unable to defend themselves. Now imagine what you think should happen next. Firstly, ...

Earlier this week I attended the Women’s Aid Federation launch of , ‘Responsible Reporting Matters’: media guidelines for the sensitive and effective reporting of domestic abuse and violence against ...