During the run up to the election, we must not overlook the huge societal, technological and economic advances of the last two decades.
The only country that a majority of respondents believe is doing enough to help them is Britain.
The Government plans to scrap the legal requirement for people to self-isolate if they have the virus; a move that has huge implications.
A new volume of essays laments the lack of support for the Union from anywhere outside Northern Ireland.
Among those who are set to vote for a party in the Assembly elections, we find Sinn Féin in the lead.
The new variant is a reminder that the world is in it “together” when it comes to beating the virus.
If Peter Sellers were still around, he could play the President to perfection, as a politician who is all at once cunning, witty, naive and triumphant.
Against a post-pandemic background of shortages, prices rises and higher taxes, how much protest will there be over the growing size of the state?
Political popularity appears to be broad and sustained but, when eventually it is exhausted, the falling away of support is dramatic.
This is not something to dismiss lightly, and we must take this as a clarion call to action.
The further the act of leaving the EU recedes, the more 2019’s Tory voters will move on – as two recent by-elections reminded us.
That Switzerland and New Zealand each have their own arrangements suggests that a bespoke arrangement ought to be possible.
The Government should now be considering more radical steps to support all parts of our Union – and this proposal would help.