The NI Executive can work better. Here’s how. A review of the latest Constitution Unit Reportiverew e

UCL’s Constitution Unit has done something remarkable. They’ve produced a report on the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive, Towards a Programme of Reform that’s understated. Perhaps they think that NI politics is no longer quite the glaring anomaly compared to the upheavals across the water? But no. The litany of failure is fully recognised. The perverse creation of power sharing as a brake on progress not an accelerator. The Assembly sitting out for five out of nine years,...