Cynicism about NI politicians is fed by #Stormont’s unwillingness to openly engage…
Some of the recent actions of our Executive Ministers have betrayed an attitude of defensive paranoia when it comes to interventions from civil society. It was revealed earlier this month, for instance, that Arlene Foster wrote a haughty letter to the Co-op, reprimanding them for organising a screening of the anti-fracking documentary Gaslands in Belfast. Meanwhile, her party colleague Nelson McCauseland has killed off the Green New Deal, relying on the advice of in-house “economists,” instead of the detailed research of a …