YOU can tell a lot about a society from its public transport.

THE DUP's consultative group on the Windsor Framework not only includes Peter Robinson, the plan has the former first minister's fingerprints all over it.

THE ATTEMPTED murder of John Caldwell demonstrates that there are still individuals in our society who advocate violence for political ends.

The attempt to kill senior PSNI officer John Caldwell is the most serious to be carried out against police by dissident republicans in more than a decade.

For Dáithí's Law to stall at its final hurdle is disappointing and frustrating for the Mac Gabhann family, whose campaign for a soft opt-out organ donation system has enjoyed cross-party support.

THE SECRETARY of state was widely expected to again extend the deadline for calling an election but nobody foresaw the can disappearing so far down the road, with a kick worthy of Johnny Sexton.

THE EUROPEAN Union is renowned for its prosaic language and lack of drama.

WHOEVER linked the resolution of issues around the protocol with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement appears to have greatly underestimated the magnitude of the task in hand, as well as the internal politics of each camp.