An article arguing that shared civic buildings should not be used to promote one side of deeply contested moral questions, using the illumination of Dublin’s Mansion House and the proposed lighting of Belfast City Hall for International Safe Abortion Day as examples.

An article arguing that the Orange Order should not be treated as representative of Protestant opinion, using survey evidence and the Garvaghy Road dispute to distinguish Protestant identity from support for contested Orange processions.

An article responding to Colum Eastwood’s recent criticism of Westminster abstentionism, tracing the principle back to the 1918 mandate and arguing that an abstentionist deliberately rejects participation in an authority whose jurisdiction over Ireland they contest.

An article arguing that the Good Friday Agreement’s border poll mechanism leaves the timing of any referendum in British hands, examining the Secretary of State’s discretion, current opinion polling and the limits of constitutional nationalism as a route to Irish sovereignty.

An article examining the different strands of contemporary Protestant Irish nationalism, from pragmatic support for unity to cultural nationalism and explicitly Republican opposition to partition.