Northern Slant Podcast: A Year in Review

Alina Utrata
1 min readDec 26, 2018

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What a year 2018 has been! Can we cover everything in 8 minutes? In our latest Northern Slant podcast, recorded on Friday 21 December, four members of the team — Ruth Foster, Steve McGookin, Matthew O’Neill and Alina Utrata — met to discuss the main political points from the past 12 months. Enjoy!

Articles mentioned in this podcast include:

What do the latest polls tell us about Northern Ireland’s future?

North Antrim at a Crossroads: 444 Problems and Ian Paisley is one

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer elected CDU leader

What is Spitzenkandidat?

Political Week in 5 Points: US involvement in the war in Yemen

Political Week in 5 Points: WTO trading terms with no-deal Brexit

Political Week in 5 Points: UN report on poverty in the UK

Political Week in 5 Points: serjeant-at-arms seizes Facebook documents

Could Cambridge Analytica’s legacy wreck havoc on our democracy?

BBC Article: Alternative ways to break Brexit impasse

This is what democracy can look like

US Midterms: Races to watch on election night

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Originally published at Northern Slant.

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Alina Utrata
Alina Utrata

Written by Alina Utrata

PhD’ing in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast via Stanford. www.alinautrata.com

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