Details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget leaked early thanks to a ‘technical mishap’ from the Office for Budgetary ...

DUP MLA for South Antrim Trevor Clarke took to his Facebook page with the following post: I nearly fell off my chair this morning when I heard on the Nolan Show that the Alliance Party’s Chair of the ...

Stormont is a very peculiar institution. In the same week that the Finance Minister, John O’Dowd called for additional tax revenue raising powers to back fill another financial black hole in Stormont, ...

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 ...

Axios just reported that Donald Trump proposes that the U.S. and other states recognise Russian claims of sovereignty over forcibly occupied Ukrainian lands. “The new Trump plan to end the war in ...

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.

The latest report from the ongoing Covid Inquiry will make awkward reading for those who had to make the big decisions during the Pandemic. According to the BBC report… “The UK response to Covid was ...

Over in the Irish News, Brian Feeney thinks our unloved Assembly is not long for this world. From his article: They need to face the reality that unionists don’t want to share power with nationalists ...

What is really going on between the GPs and our Health Minister? For GPs to pass a motion of no-confidence in our Health Minister last weekend is unusual, for them to talk of investigating a future ...

Over the summer and the autumn I’ve been quietly working away talking to a small number of cross party backbenchers about the work they do in the Assembly as part of a new project we call the Slugger ...

On 21 st of November 2025, Stormont hosted the Disabled People’s Parliament. This is part of a series of people’s parliaments, which in the past have included an LGBTQ+ Parliament and a Women’s ...

Eoghan Kelly is a postdoc on the University of Edinburgh’s Scottish Election Study and has lectured in Irish politics at Queen’s. Here, he uses his new election projection site to see how reform might ...