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Heading towards the halfway point in the third series, the question some ‘Blue Lights’ viewers have been asking was: could it maintain its strong start? Before we try to answer that, I’ll again warn ...

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As I write, we are waiting for Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the first phase of the miraculous peace agreement in Gaza brokered triumphantly by President Donald ...

Mike Nesbitt MLA is the Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, ahead of the party conference he writes for Slugger On the week of the 2025 Ulster Unionist Party Conference, I offer some thoughts to ...

Apparently, 66% of us are worried about the rise of AI. The environmental implications of powering vast server farms feed into this unease, while decades of science fiction cinema have helped shape ...

My wife and I are married almost 43 years. Discounting Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, we have never been on a holiday together. My wife has now given up driving me round to take photographs of ...

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Dylan Thomas’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ is one of my favourite poems. It is simply so very Human in how Thomas exhorts his subject not to yield to the inevitability of the end but to ...

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During his radio show on Monday 6th October, Stephen Nolan was in familiar territory — challenging SDLP leader Claire Hanna about her speech at the party’s weekend conference. When talk turned to the ...

The UK’s biggest celebration of social science research returns this October for its 23rd year. The aim of the festival is to show how social science is key to understanding the world around us. The ...