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Power, policy and accountability — reporting from the capital and beyond.
Ten years after the transparency acts forced the Assembly to legislate in public, the deal-making that once ran this country has not disappeared. It has changed shape — and changed who holds power.
The press-freedom bill passed at 4:12am by the narrowest possible margin. Our correspondent spent the night in the chamber. This is how it happened.
A leaked archive of ministerial messages reveals how the governing coalition actually makes decisions — and how little of it happens in the rooms designed for the purpose.
An inquiry into a decade of disputed local elections has reached an uncomfortable conclusion: the system worked, and almost no one believed it.