Sometimes Opposition Is What We Really Need
The current pandemic has seen Northern Ireland’s political parties come together like never before. The five main parties have in recent...
Coronavirus lockdown #1 is a chance to sit back, get thinking and start writing.
- Apr 18, 2020
- 8 min
Climate Change, the Coronavirus and the Columnist
I have tried to remain alert to the fact that the people, events, and forces described … carry in them the seeds of other, perhaps less...
- Apr 17, 2020
- 6 min
Zero Sum Hours
Three weeks into UK Lockdown and no exit strategy is in place. The economic and mental health effects are beginning to surface with an...
- Apr 14, 2020
- 6 min
A Message of Hope for Victims and Survivors
To the women and men longing for hope. A message for fighters and survivors. As the world is fighting to embrace and fight the global...
- Apr 13, 2020
- 4 min
My Postcode Doesn't Define Me
BT63 5XX, three numbers and four letters can’t really decide your future; or can they? That series of characters are a postcode and that...
- Apr 10, 2020
- 4 min
Consensus, Not Coercion
We may well have a new Executive that is barely three months old yet already it has been proven once again why our system of government...
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity
Over the last few weeks, the government has announced spending commitments worth tens of billions of pounds in order to counteract the...
- Apr 8, 2020
- 4 min
Coronavirus Crushes Its First Constitutional Democracy
In political terms, Hungary was already immunocompromised. A decade under the leadership of the self-proclaimed ‘illiberal nationalist’...
- Apr 7, 2020
- 4 min
Art Under Attack
“I honestly feel let down by the University” A final year Fine Art student's response to the news that her University is cancelling, as...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 4 min
A Unionist Argument Against A United Unionism
I’m an unapologetic unionist, who if cut, may possibly bleed red, white and blue. However, I am fundamentally against an idea which has...
- Apr 5, 2020
- 4 min
Pandemic Pregnancies
The 1st of April 2020. A day that was expected to be historic, freeing and equal for the women of Northern Ireland. Instead it appears to...
- Apr 4, 2020
- 4 min
A Letter To Those With Mental Illness In Quarantine
Dear anyone suffering with mental illness during this pandemic, this is for you. To the people suffering with depression, I see you. I am...
- Apr 3, 2020
- 3 min
Stacking Shelves On The Front Line
A few weeks ago, the thought of supermarket workers being the holy grail of society would be madness. Now, these are the key workers on...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 4 min
Will the Coronavirus Change our Lives Forever?
Quick, time to grab a glass of wine and hop on FaceTime with my girl pals! This is something that has had to become a normality since the...
- Mar 31, 2020
- 5 min
The Toughest Challenge Yet
At the start of 2020, NI had the pleasure (some may disagree) to witness our Executive return to government, just three years after...
- Mar 30, 2020
- 4 min
Tumble Outta Bed And I Stumble To The Zoom Call
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the globe, many of us find ourselves having to work from home for the first time....
- Mar 28, 2020
- 4 min
Fitness from a Distance
Coronavirus does not discriminate. Both in terms of who it infects and who it impacts. Aside from the public health risk, the virus has...
- Mar 28, 2020
- 4 min
Listening In A Time Of White Noise
In times of global panic, it can almost seem that instead of news on the television and radio, all we hear is white noise. The...
- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
Please Won't Someone Think Of The Landlords
In these trying times, social solidarity is what will hold the fabric of our communities intact. That’s why I’ll be thinking of our...
- Mar 26, 2020
- 4 min
Childhood On Lockdown
I’m sure that many, if not all of you are aware that as of the 23rd of March, the UK is essentially on lockdown. This is a stressful and...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
The European Union and the Crisis Paradox
For the first time in my life I cannot travel freely throughout the European Union. This is a sobering thought, an inherent right I have...
- Mar 24, 2020
- 3 min
£ducation, £ducation, £ducation!
We have now entered “Coronavirus Capitalism”. Or so says noted author and activist Naomi Klein. Quoting famous economist Milton Freidman,...
- Mar 21, 2020
- 4 min
Together But Apart
Long-distance relationships are nothing new. A relationship where you are physically separated, but still committed to each other. Maybe...
- Mar 19, 2020
- 6 min
Soapbox Sexism
Women’s issues are at the forefront of our political society. Women hold up half the sky, after all. From the decriminalisation of...
- Mar 16, 2020
- 6 min
Coronavirus: The Positive Policy Action We Can Take
When the house is on fire, the occupants rush to save what is most important. Likewise, a global pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of...