Shocking news this morning as the United States launched a surprise attack on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. Whilst details of the strikes including casualties and damage have yet to be determined ...

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has announced he is resigning as UUP leader, bringing an end to his second stint in the job.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” The famous line from Shelley’s poem Ozymandias invites us to consider the legacy ...

As is typical during Betwixtmas, I have indulged in some ‘Netflix and Chill’ (other platforms are available) and I re-watched Enola Holmes. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a mystery film set in the ...

Wishing you all a happy New Year. I always love this quote from Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalinist dictator, who said in his ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an opinion piece highlighting how Northern Ireland’s antiquated pub licensing system is damaging the social fabric of our communities. Pubs are closing not because they’re ...

A follow-up analysis to ‘Time to Flip the Switch: An Opt-In Model for Religious Education in Controlled Schools’. A four-year-old girl came home from her Belfast primary school and started reciting ...

I’m reading here about the case of Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent Egyptian pro-democracy activist who first became well known ...

As the year draws to an end, the Financial Times has posted a story revealing that Tokyo has been displaced as the world’s largest city by the Indonesian capital of Jakarta… Alfiyan Elfatah spends ...