Sinn Féin rescued by Orange Order: new LucidTalk poll…
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Back in the summer Sinn Féin’s poll rating showed they had lost a quarter of the votes won in the last Assembly election, and almost a third down on their all-time-high in the 2023 Council elections. Today’s new LucidTalk poll …
Weekly Bulletin 06/11/26
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Calls for unionist unity fell flat this week as division continued, with MP Carla Lockhart quitting the DUP on Monday. Thursday’s budget negotiations produced no breakthrough, leaving Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant decrying “abnormal” politics, while DUP MP Gavin Robinson …
London and Dublin are miles apart on the Troubles Bill.
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Scenes at the Ballymurphy Inquest Distracted by the political antics over Drumcree – not to mention the ill fortunes of Trump – you may not have noticed that the new Troubles Bill is in trouble itself. Promoted as the final …
Storytime with Houdi – The Winnebago…
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The political atmosphere in Northern Ireland was turning for the better in 2007 despite the premature death of progressive Loyalist David Ervine. Sinn Féin were waving flags for the PSNI instead of protest posters. A new comedy duo in Stormont, …
An Orange perspective on Garvaghy Road and the Case for Unionist Unity…
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From Drumcree Hill to today’s Assembly, the denial of Portadown Orangemen’s right to walk a public road is unchanged. A veteran protester argues that only a single, unified unionist party can unseat Michelle O’Neill, and calls on Gavin, Jon and Jim to make it happen at the ballot box.
Micheál Martin’s pluralist approach is an upgrade to Sinn Féin’s ‘dummymandered’ single option future
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Nationalism risks its own form of “dummymander”: reading the 2021 census as a countdown to unity, much as Texas Republicans redrew their maps on demographic assumptions and lost. The Taoiseach’s new body offers a stronger path, preparing for several futures and engaging every tradition, so that consent is earned rather than assumed.
Collapse the Executive? What unionists think…
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In the first of a series of reports on its latest LucidTalk poll, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting on the popularity of the unionist party leaders, plus Carla Lockhart and Jamie Bryson amongst the supporters of each of the unionist …
What ‘Before the Vote’ gets right and wrong about the subvention…
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The first chapter of John Doyle’s Before the Vote: Planning for a united Ireland examines the Northern Ireland subvention, the gap between taxes raised in Northern Ireland and the public spending allocated to it. Doyle starts from the ONS figure …
The good news and the not so good news about the Windsor Framework
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From The Times The taxpayer has spent billions of pounds preparing Britain for post-Brexit food checks that are to be scrapped as part of Labour’s reset with the European Union. Later this month Andy Burnham is due to unveil a …
The Beginning of the End
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Do you remember how it began? Or how you felt when you heard the news? That Donald Trump… the reality TV show host, the self-promoting guest star of sitcoms and movies galore, the man who once took a ‘stone cold …