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The Assembly and Executive Review Committee is carrying out a review into what institutional reforms could be implemented to improve the functioning and stability of the Assembly and the Northern Ireland Executive Committee. If you have a view on this issue, you can complete our

500 days after devolution's return & it's the same old story. An Executive incapable of taking the big decisions urgently needed. "It’s like Seinfeld, a show about nothing," says one insider. "There’s no over-arching plot, no direction, no cohesiveness." belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

Even more against First Past the Post as a system after an afternoon at Royal Ascot.

#BBCRedLines - bonus episode Leo Varadkar: Unity's poster boy or unionist bogeyman? Mark Carruthers chats to the former Taoiseach about planning for a united Ireland, persuading unionists & paying for it. Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

"It won't just happen by osmosis." Leo Varadkar tells Mark Carruthers that a united Ireland "has to be worked towards"...

"If someone asked me to engage in a conversation on Ireland re-joining the UK I wouldn't." Leo Varadkar tells Mark Carruthers he understands why unionist such as Doug Beattie don't want to take part in discussions about a united Ireland...

"The whole thing was all over the place." Peter Shirlow tells Mark Carruthers he isn't convinced by Leo Varadkar and his case for a united Ireland...

"Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post." Chris Donnelly tells Mark Carruthers that "electoral realities" are pointing to a united Ireland...

Could Nigel Farage be the next UK PM? Discussion with RTE’s Claire Byrne rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Coming up on View From Stormont: Reaction to the High court decision to halt the A Five project - because it does not comply with Northern Ireland's climate change targets. I'll be joined by the Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins and representatives of some of the parties.

📢Some news from me: I've written a book with the erudite & eloquent Fintan O'Toole in which we each argue for - and then against - Irish unity, setting out objectively what seem to us each side's best arguments, and the issues people across the island of Ireland should consider.

Fairly full house for Jon Tonge and Peter Shirlow for their ARINS Project lecture in the Royal Irish Academy

Constitutional Conversations Group: “Pathway to a Border Poll” ⁦ A discussion about the future, as part of ⁦Féile an Phobail⁩ 2025. feilebelfast.com/events/feile-c…

The Times's read on one of the most extraordinary days in the Commons I've seen since Brexit * Liz Kendall blindsided as No 10 and whips decided on climbdown as she was speaking. At 2pm she was saying the reforms would come in. At 4pm she left the chamber to learn they were dead

TUV’s Jim Allister to Hilary Benn: “When is he going to stop acting as Secretary of State for the EU and start acting as Secretary of State for NI?” Hilary Benn: “Mutual enforcement- the only idea I’ve ever heard him put forward - is not a practical proposition”.

Morecambe FC's Board say they'll have to put the club into admin if hugely unpopular owner Jason Whittingham doesn't sell up. Whittingham's response? He wants to sack the Board. More proof that we need an independent football regulator ASAP. #UTS 🦐 thefsa.org.uk/news/morecambe…

Jason Whittingham has been involved as a director of 25 companies, 10 have been dissolved, 2 are in receivership, 1 has been liquidated, 1 is in administration and between them they have had 57 strike off notices. Fit and proper to own a football club? I'll let you decide.

Report by Maggie Armstrong on last week’s ARINS lecture at the RIA: one year on, what does the data from the N. Ireland Westminster election tell us? ria.ie/2025/07/04/nor…