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, ...

In the Kate Bush song Experiment IV, she describes a secret military experiment designed to create a sound so horrifying it ...

I’ve been reading a fair bit about the vague, abstract notion of ‘reconciliation’ here over the last while, first on Andy Pollak’s Claire Hanna piece and latterly on Open Sunday and it got me thinking ...

Sadly, most of us remain silent, constrained perhaps by claims of Israel’s centrality in ‘End Times’ Bible Prophecy and a movement that lobbies us to ‘Stand with Israel’. But a growing number now ...

I love this story about Steve Jobs from Adam Lashinsky in Fortune: Apple doesn’t often fail, and when it does, it isn’t a ...

Finley is a Slugger reader from Belfast The relationship between the United States and China is now more strained than at any ...

If you were one of the thousands who packed your bags for Spain this Easter hoping for sun, sea and sangria, you probably ...

There’s two things I love about golf. One is the sheer beauty and multigenerational memories of the greats playing the ...

It may be hard to believe it, but we are coming up on NINE years since the Brexit referendum (and before you know it we will ...

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) recently released an interesting comparison of the economies of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and there’s some pretty striking stuff in the report.

Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...

Northern Ireland’s education system has its roots in a colonial model developed by the British Government during the 19th century. Designed to enforce cultural assimilation and maintain social ...