Soapbox: Let’s hear it for Westminster and direct rule by Jeffrey Dudgeon

Jeffrey Dudgeon argues that we now have direct rule lite but it dare not speak its name for fear of offending Sinn Fein and supposedly encouraging IRA violence. It is amazing how so many radical Unionists in Northern Ireland have been tricked or deceived into thinking only one way is open and that is devolution, when all the evidence tells you otherwise.

Can fresh Perspectives help a community tell its changing story?

How can a community tell its story? That’s the question Jonathan Hodge has been asking as he visited other places and communities to bring back ideas and challenges to loyalist communities in Northern Ireland. This week he hosted a discussion in Shankill Road library and launched his new Perspectives magazine which looks at identity, rights and the United Kingdom.