Border Poll Reality Check: Demographics, Data, and Decades of Debate (Part Three) Is a United Ireland inevitable, or is the status quo strengthening? This final installment of our University of Liverpool survey series tackles the Border Poll head-on. Wh https://t.co/6CY3Hnde0U

Time to Flip the Switch: An Opt-In Model for Religious Education in Controlled Schools El Cavador is a Slugger reader from Belfast A follow-up analysis to ‘The Irony of Integration: How a Progressive Ideal Can Impede Progress in a Transitional Society’. https://t.co/17qTdVbPK4

Diane Dodds on Scrutiny, System Shortfalls, and the Struggle for Clarity through Stormont’s Institutions In the final episode of the first series of the Slugger Cato Project, we sat down with DUP MLA and former Minister Diane Dodds. For those new to the https://t.co/RHHFv2eROs

Who Stays, Who Leaves After more than five years commenting on Slugger, I can still count the regular female voices roughly on one hand. When almost half the population isn’t represented here, we should be asking why. This isn’t really about why women m https://t.co/4ah9yjXVi5

Northern Ireland’s Political Crossroads: Problematics for the Three Blocs (Part Two) Part two of Professor Peter Shirlow‘s survey analysis dives into the stark challenges facing Northern Ireland’s political blocs. Our data reveals zero growth in the pro https://t.co/rdfJCKgI1X

Beyond the Headlines: Northern Ireland’s Evolving Electorate (Part One)… In part one of this detailed analysis from Professor Peter Shirlow, Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool, captures critical in-time attitudes, https://t.co/Jl1wiYa5Cm

Why We Must Regulate the Uses of AI… A clash is brewing in the US between individual states and President Trump over the regulation of AI (Artificial Intelligence). On Thursday last week, Trump signed an executive order that seeks to halt any laws limi https://t.co/5CwYbYJMxT

Can’t believe I’ve been doing this for ten years! Always lovely to meet the regulars at @SluggerOToole end of year review

Great to be at @SluggerOToole’s yearly round-up tonight! Great to see NI’s leading commentators not taking our wee place or its politicians too seriously! @AlexKane221b @AllisonMorris1 @alaninbelfast

@SluggerOToole Year End Review back again. @AlexKane221b and @AllisonMorris1 reviewing the year in politics.

Here we go...@AlexKane221b @AllisonMorris1 and @alaninbelfast with our year end review. Happy 10th anniversary to Alex and Allison

Are you ready to step up and defend Blighty from the Russian hordes? From Sky News: Serving up a sombre reality check, Air Chief Marshal Knighton said he agreed with his French counterpart, General Fabien Mandon, who said last month that France must be https://t.co/AOUAkMDyJL

Consociationalism is the Last Refuge of the Damned for a Reason I firmly believe that Northern Ireland doesn’t work, Northern Ireland has never worked and Northern Ireland is never going to work. These are words which I am aware most Unionists who hear https://t.co/qIBh1NfG8q

New Liverpool University Opinion Poll… The latest occasional poll from Liverpool University’s Institute of Irish Studies has been picked up by the Belfast Telegraph. It shows a pattern of party support similar to recent LucidTalk polls. All the Executi https://t.co/QYWWmcWHGt

Gordon Lyons Calls for Call-In Procedure to be Changed According to Brendan Hughes at the BBC, Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has written to all eleven councils regarding the operation of the ‘call-in procedure’ each council operates. To quote the li https://t.co/YiWt9yJ3bG

Trump, Spheres of Influence, and the Prospects for His New Strategy… Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast China’s growing economic, diplomatic, and military capabilities make it likely to challenge U.S. dominance not only in East Asia but also in th https://t.co/iGaAaO9ZQ9

Slugger Cato Project: Pat Sheehan on doggedly sticking to the question over time… The Slugger Cato Project is an inquiry hosted by Mick Fealty, and is dedicated to exploring the less-visible aspects of governance and political action in Northern Irelan https://t.co/J70miwfX8a

There’s cocaine in the water and I’m not taking the pi**… Fascinating podcast this week from the BBC State of Us team Declan Harvey and Tara Mills. The sensational headline that our cocaine use is so great it has found its way into our much treasured l https://t.co/AFJZYQTyzi

In the event of a nuclear war Fivemiletown is one of the main targets… A bizarre story in today’s BelTel: A senior Russian politician has warned that a Co Tyrone town is on a ‘strike list’ should war break out between Russia and European states. Former https://t.co/voFmBckeLn

When does Ireland’s passionate support for Palestine spill over into anti-semitism? I should begin this blog with a declaration of interest. My father was a Czech Jew, a political refugee who arrived in Ireland in 1948, and my mother was an Ulster Presb https://t.co/u2RtWZDD8Q