No equality surge at Stormont but every ripple welcome
An increase of 10 in the total of women MLAs, there's a thing - except it wasn't, all that much.
It queued for notice behind the big stuff; nationalist vote still sliding, some kind of formal opposition - and then the wooing of independent unionist Claire Sugden. That she is female has been nothing to do with it, though the twist is that the prime mover is another woman, this one at the top of Stormont's little heap, another visual change in the political furniture.
In the latest mini-drama over the past couple of weeks, leading man after leading man has been positioned sweet[...]
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