Michelle Gildernew still wins.

...my own prediction is that even if the margin between unionist and nationalist parties should slip still further in the decades to come (though I doubt that it will have changed much by 2021), the outcome of any referendum vote will remain securely on the pro-Union side, no matter how badly led unionism is in the future.

"...the UUP looks set to produce another raft of candidates for election who are very much more of the same... If so, it is a desperate gamble that relies on a lot of the allegedly stay-away voters suddenly realising that the 1950s are the political era they want to live in."

Excellent analysis by the defeated leadership candidate of 1995

Liveblogging the UUP leadership election

Yet more UUP leadership commentary

More UUP leadership commentary

UUP leadership election commentary (it's tomorrow)

Parsley references my recent post about Ulster Unionists

Lest we forget

When I remember the Twelfth of my childhood years, I see the banners of the Orange Lodges appearing, tops first, from the south side of Finaghy Railway Bridge, and rising up to the hump of it like the sails of galleons in a summer breeze.

Description of my day at the BBC in last two paragraphs

My article in the Newsletter

Best guide so far to NI European election - look esp at comment from Sammy Morse!

1981 hunger strike could have ended three months earlier

21 June is to be a Day of Private Reflection on the Troubles