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 ...

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.

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 series, this project is a shared inquiry into the ...

A follow-up analysis to ‘The Irony of Integration: How a Progressive Ideal Can Impede Progress in a Transitional Society’. Northern Ireland has already acknowledged the importance of societal default ...

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-unity vote share since 1998, ...

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 ...

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. While support for unity has ...

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 series, this project is a shared inquiry into the ...

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.

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 ...

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 Deputy Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin named 23 ...

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 Presbyterian. So I am not a typical ...