Northern Ireland’s politics is dominated by the question of its constitutional future. However, analyses have historically overlooked the ‘centre-ground’ of Northern Ireland’s contemporary politics - the parties and people who do not identify primarily or at all in constitutional terms.

For over a decade, debates on nationalism and independence in Western Europe (and beyond) have been dominated by discussions on events in Catalonia and Scotland. Paul Anderson writes on the impact of momentous events such as the 2014 and 2017 independence referendums, the 2016 Brexit vote and the experience and implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the evolution of territorial politics in both cases.

For the best part of a decade, Scottish politics was dominated by the issue of independence. However, nationalism is a complex phenomenon. Often, it is about constitutional change and sometimes that involves independence, but it also maps onto other political and social issues in complex ways.

Following her election as Welsh Labour leader, Eluned Morgan pledged to spend the summer listening to people across Wales. But, after a period of turmoil and political scandal that saw Vaughan Gething resign as First Minister of Wales after just four months in charge, and with recent polling suggesting the party could be on course for a difficult Senedd election in 2026, will this be enough to help the party “renew in office”?

Modernisation Without a Gender and Diversity Sensitivity Focus is not Modernisation: An Agenda for the New Modernisation Committee

For some years after the 2014 independence referendum it seemed that old alignments had been replaced by a new nationalist-unionist cleavage. The results of the 2024 General Election suggest that this may have been a simplification.