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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Rishi Sunak will hope he gets a deal on Northern Ireland today. So do I. Most especially for the people of Northern Ireland. It is
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This Tweet was put out by the Peston programme on ITV on Wednesday based on polling Queen’s University Belfast had done: https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1628520534089646092?s=20 That is a
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Issues relating to Ireland have been troublesome for British politics for centuries. Since 1802, when the Irish parliament was subsumed into that in Westminster, the
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