Topical question AQT 907/22-27

Topical question by Mr Brian Kingston on 20 January 2025.

MLA: Mr Brian Kingston
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 20 January 2025
Type: Topical question
Assembly reference: AQT 907/22-27
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4744579

Text

Mr Kingston asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether, in pursuance of good relations — an issue on which the First Minister has answered questions today — they agree on the importance of showing democratic leadership and not promoting the glorification of terrorism.

45 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

20 January 2025 – I will push the First Minister more on that. She talks about taking a victim-centred approach and showing sensitivity…

Assessment

Not flagged

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.34 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
The text criticises or condemns the framing or division (0.41).
Subject area: Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism.
The overall probability was moderate at most and none of the culture-war criteria was close to being met.

This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.

Jev’s structured answers

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.21	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.03	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.28	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.16	No
Controversy escalation	0.34	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.35	No
Overall judgement	0.34	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing	0.20
Reports or questions it	0.03
Criticises or condemns it (chosen)	0.41
Adopts it	0.36

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism	0.93
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations	0.06
No identity-related subject	0.01
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00
Parades, bonfires and commemorations	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 11:46 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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