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Stormont and the rise of the ‘stakeholder state’

Newton Emerson

UK and Ireland are both being reminded of their fragility. This should bring them closer

Newton Emerson

Laws, letters and long-running failures at Stormont

03.01.2026 20

Newton Emerson

Should Stormont abolish homework?

02.01.2026 10

Newton Emerson

Criticism of Stormont’s creationist Minister for Education really needs to evolve

01.01.2026 10

Newton Emerson

Emergency meetings, mobility scooters and missing civil servants

27.12.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Profits Returned, Promises Made and Powers Questioned

Newton Emerson

Could council call-ins backfire on the DUP?

Newton Emerson

There’s just one problem with Ulster Scots. Unlike the Irish language, it doesn’t exist

18.12.2025 40

Newton Emerson

Is truth recovery for Troubles killings really possible?

15.12.2025 10

Newton Emerson

How to deal with the problem of nightmare social housing tenants

12.12.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Real loser in row over EU observer status for Northern Ireland is the centre ground

Newton Emerson

Flags, fines and the fine art of megaphone diplomacy

07.12.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Is it time to call out use of the call-in?

Newton Emerson

Northern Ireland may be left in a migration limbo. That’s a problem for the Republic

04.12.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Short-term budget gains mask long-term economic pain

30.11.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Unionists outdoing each other on questions about nativity plays and witchcraft in schools

Newton Emerson

Newton Emerson: Supreme Court ruling on religious education is a godsend for DUP

Newton Emerson

Is Northern Ireland facing a Windsor Framework immigration fiasco?

Newton Emerson

Ivana Bacik’s careless words are causing alarm among unionists

20.11.2025 10

Newton Emerson

What will happen to legacy law if Labour loses power?

Newton Emerson

Can Stormont hold ministers to account without pulling the Good Friday Agreement apart?

14.11.2025 10

Newton Emerson

DUP’s dithering over Catherine Connolly’s inauguration offended or embarrassed everyone

12.11.2025 30

Newton Emerson

Staunch unionists hope Catherine Connolly’s presidency will damage US-Irish relations

12.11.2025 60

Newton Emerson

School dinners, street manners and political pantomime

Newton Emerson

Northern Ireland’s long argument over Irish language is either going to end or get worse

Newton Emerson

Alliance may end up biggest losers in Paul Givan row

Newton Emerson

Questions raised by DUP minister’s visit to Israel

Newton Emerson

A more cunning DUP can cut climate change targets

Newton Emerson

Fine Gael should never again send a Protestant candidate into a sectarian storm

30.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Is Stormont about to give up on climate change targets?

25.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Can we please be told how hospital waiting lists work?

24.10.2025 90

Newton Emerson

Powersharing has created a nonsense system where planning an action counts as an action

23.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Newton Emerson: There’s little for Gaza to learn from us about decommissioning

18.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

To win the war on dereliction, councils must be up for the fight

Newton Emerson

No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting that it does

16.10.2025 20

Newton Emerson

When is a loyalist threat of violence not a threat?

Newton Emerson

If Stormont really wants to help the disabled into work, it must overcome its terror of touching benefits

Newton Emerson

Why are the parties of Northern Ireland’s centre at each other’s throats?

09.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

DUP fighting wrong battle over Irish on council uniforms

04.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Plans for ID cards are not new – and people seem to like them

03.10.2025 10

Newton Emerson

What’s behind Northern Ireland’s fake greenways controversy?

02.10.2025 20

Newton Emerson

PSNI must heed lessons of Leveson after spying scandal

27.09.2025 20

Newton Emerson

If the DUP is concerned about immigration, why not do something about it?

25.09.2025 10

Newton Emerson

The campaign to free Bailey the support dog from prison sparks a useful debate

25.09.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Newton Emerson: MLAs to have their homework checked by the Schoolteachers, Doctors and Lawyers Party

Newton Emerson

Why won't the DUP tell us its real plan for education?

19.09.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Here in Northern Ireland, the Irish presidential election seems a lot like Eurovision

18.09.2025 10

Newton Emerson

When does a sham fight at Stormont become a crisis?

13.09.2025 10

Newton Emerson

Could better housing design help end intimidation at interfaces?

11.09.2025 20

Newton Emerson