In the three years since the collapse of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration, the political landscape has shifted decisively

Stormont’s white neoclassical parliament buildings in Belfast could hum with life again within weeks if the UK’s Northern Ireland Secretary, Julian Smith, liberated by Boris Johnson’s landslide general election victory from dependence on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), carries out his threat to call Assembly elections unless all local parties agree to the recall of the devolved Executive by 13 January.