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Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland

With the Assembly on the verge of collapse, things could get very serious, very fast.

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Stormont, the Northern Irish Assembly

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government is close to collapse again. If you don’t really care about this, or don’t know much about it, you’re a lot like many people in Northern Ireland.

A media desire to seem even-handed, coupled with low levels of citizen interest and political engagement means a lazy “they’re all as bad as each other” anti-politics has become the tedious norm.