I watched Imelda May’s fascinating programme on Sky Arts last night, in which she explored the story of the Yeats sisters, Elizabeth and Susan, who
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I hope the new First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, likes being patronised because she was in abundance yesterday. First, there was Rishi Sunak,
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Unlike many, I am not inclined to celebrate the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland as yet. I heard Sam Coates on Sky last night
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As Politico reports in their daily morning email today: Following Northern Ireland’s biggest ever public sector strikes on Thursday, Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris issued
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I have long felt that the UK has little future. Whatever once held the four very disparate countries* within it together will not, I think,
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I was first involved in writing about Microsoft’s tax affairs in November 2005 when work I did was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
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I appreciated this tweet: Keir Starmer’s aggressive British nationalism means he’s pledged to breach the Good Friday Agreement. British people may not have noticed. But
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I noted an excellent speech made by Irish President Michael Higgins late last week. Given at the 20th anniversary of the Irish think tank TASC,
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Sunak has, as everyone expected, got a deal on Northern Ireland. Let me not be churlish. It is a better deal than I expected. He
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