David Miller reports on the ‘Open Stormont’ campaign in Northern Ireland – and the lobbyists’ response.

As Peter Robinson takes over the Unionist reigns from Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland, Slugger O’Toole assess the likely political repurcussions.

Steve James looks at some of the process which lay behind the Northern Ireland Troubles, and the ensuing peace process.

It is clear from the IRD’s record in Northern Ireland what a revival of its methods would mean, writes Tom Griffin: a resort to widespread disinformation, the paranoid condemnation of all opponents as the dupes of a monolithic terrorist conspiracy, and the exploitation of national security concerns to justify domestic political manipulation by unaccountable elites.