The first jingle of a bell I heard this year was in early September. Yes, early September. There I was, deciding to watch a documentary on youtube and with summer barely done and dusted I was ambushed ...

Before the Covid pandemic forced us to start paying with our cards or phones, we had to fill our pockets with shiny little bits of metal called coins. If you still possess any coins, you will find ...

Details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget leaked early thanks to a ‘technical mishap’ from the Office for Budgetary Responsibility. The BBC has a quick summary of what is known so far. Margaret ...

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 ...

Speculation is growing that Mike Nesbitt will step down as UUP party leader sometime in the new year. This reflects comments he made over the summer … “He told the media on Monday that he would make a ...

The last episode (released on Thursday) sparked a pleasingly positive response from the Slugger Community, if not exactly breaking all records in terms of a ton readership. It seems we struck a nerve.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.