Gadfly is a political geographer from Belfast with a particular interest in the relationship between democracy and the ...

Conleth Burns is Associate Director (Ireland and Northern Ireland) at More in Common. More in Common is a research agency that aims to help leaders understand and better navigate public opinion. You ...

The first survey of opinion on Drumcree has been published by polling organisation More In Common in an extensive report. To ...

There are few foreign countries whose elections are of interest to us. We don’t follow the elections in Japan or Greece or Mexico all that much. We do follow those in France and in Germany given the ...

The Executive remains without an agreed Budget as talks continued this week. While the parties maintain that NI is underfunded, they have until January to come to a settlement, otherwise NI Secretary ...

While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...

“…when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.” — Daniel Kahneman It’s worth ...

While the unionist parties may be trying out a new game at Stormont portraying restraint as strength rather than weakness, what is the temper of the times among the people? Will something far worse ...

The song Before You Go, by Lewis Capaldi, is taken from his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent. It refers to the suicide of his aunt when he was a boy. Capaldi became synonymous with ...

Carla Lockhart borrows from Paisley and Thatcher, but she isn’t speaking from strength. Pulling the deputy First Minister to remove Michelle O’Neill would freeze budgets at 95%, lose Barnett money ...

Without attracting much attention even from the local media, the Commons spent the best part of two days this week debating the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill. This is the latest attempt at what’s ...

It’s about leadership stupid. Something strange that has yet to be explained in the defenestration of Paisley the late chuckle brother. It was ideological as well as personal over his loss of grip due ...