More detail on dubious journalistic practice in Belfast.

Journalist trolls popular Northern Ireland political website.

Fascinating account of the city in the early 19th century.

"The leader of the Ulster Unionists has rejected a Conservative Party proposal that they disband and become a Northern Ireland wing of the Tories." - an extraordinarily tone-deaf offer, incomprehensible.

Belfast gets a visit from the Fourth Doctor. "Time Lords do not acknowledge sectarian divides. This is a simple fact." "A Time Lord came and visited us at a very bad time."

Gordon Gillespie tells all.

@bbcmarkd on the new SDLP leader.

"In 2010, compared with the previous Westminster election in 2005, making allowance for boundary changes, the UUP vote was down almost 5% in South Belfast and almost 10% in East Belfast, and your own result in North Down was 32.5% below that of the UUP in the previous election. I think it is not unfair to look at those results and say that th…

“it was vital to resolve the other side’s problems as well or they would end up being your problem”.

Plans from 1890 discovered. Four different routes proposed!

More trouble for the UUP, hassling voters who did not vote!

My article for yesterday's Tele.

I get quoted in the Belfast Telegraph.

Notes from my radio appearance on Sunday.

I feel that the 2011 Assembly election will be one of consolidation, not change.

Boundary changes are both a curse and a blessing for the psephologist.

The structure of the Assembly has been designed to take into account the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland; the much more fundamental divide of gender is barely addressed. But it is a matter of huge importance for the sort of society we want to be.

One of the joys of the PR-STV system for us analysts is the wealth of detail revealed about voter preferences when one looks at transfers.

Predict the result of the 5 May vote!

The First Minister and the fishpond.

Election Essay 1: Will Martin McGuinness be returned as First Minister in the new Assembly?

Review of a book on the life of the most famous person to come from Loughbrickland. (Or, well, near Loughbrickland. Near-ish, anyway.)

"We have lost three of the new candidates we fielded in the Westminster Elections last May. That means we have retained eight, seven of whom are standing again. Which is the more news worthy? You do the math!" - I dunno, Mike, the fact that the party has lost more than a quarter of its new candidates from what was already its worst elect…

Not just Prince Charles, but Peter Robinson too!

Hamilton got more votes than any other UUP / UCUNF candidate at 2005 election - has now joined the Alliance Party!

Sad news; he was a scholar and a gentleman.

Me old mate Peter Osborne writes about the Parades Commission in Fortnight magazine

Sitting Green member will not commit to voting for his own party (his wife standing for a different party).