Northern Ireland's parties must put agendas aside and have an open discussion based on evidence

Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration

Patience of English taxpayers with Northern Ireland will be tested as Britain runs out of money

Northern unionists might dare to dream of a similar outcome but SNP's legacy offers a mixed lesson

Importance of road upgrade for constituents makes party’s tolerance of any political pain on it a genuine mystery

The DUP has accepted second place at Stormont. But it doesn’t know how to lead unionism from there

As the Scottish independence referendum showed, young first-time voters can be surprisingly conservative

Sinn Féin’s message to the British public is ‘let us take this expensive burden off your hands’, while to the Republic it’s that reunification will be almost painless

Minister for Health Mike Nesbitt’s negotiating tactics are remarkably aggressive. Has he overplayed his hand?

Students from south of the Border apply for capped places in NI and pay the local £4,855 fee, while students from Britain pay double. There’s a good argument for why that should change

A problem that persisted for two centuries is now considered solved

The violence of the past week has been aired with immediacy and intimacy unimaginable 15 years ago

The party may have unleashed sentiments that carry it swiftly to the right

Why did the BBC press on? Because it is an intractable bureaucracy with no respect for public money

Complaints of one-sided treatment may often be simplistic or partisan, but that only underscores the corrosive effect of inconsistent application of the law