The DUP will not be deploying a wrecking ball and bringing down the assembly and executive if the Stormont Brake does not deliver

X owner’s call for Reform to replace its leader points to possible disintegration of UK’s populist right again

I have often written about the slowness with which unionism tends to approach change. But we have embraced it

The year of elections didn’t product anything earth-shattering change in the end

My mother was a remarkable woman but the most extraordinary thing she did was rescue a terrified boy from an orphanage and provide him with the chance to reboot his life

For all the anger in unionist/loyalist circles over the protocol and framework, the assembly won’t be collapsed on that basis

Maybe Sinn Féin needs to face the reality that it has failed and is continuing to fail to sell the unity project to many voters outside its core base.

25 years ago, when Martin McGuinness was appointed education minister, the institutions were still wobbly - and they remain so today

All ministers around the executive table must be ministers for everyone

I have huge problems with the LCC, but being seen to abandon loyalism could make an inconvenient situation worse

This is not simply a case of Sinn Féin’s misfortune being unionism’s opportunity

Unionism is shifting towards the realisation that demographic and electoral change require a significant shift in long-term thinking

Unionism has a long and unhappy history of being surprised by British governments

Trump and Farage have damaged politics at a national and international level

Difficult to avoid the conclusion the LCC is hindering the very change it was set up to deliver