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Ever since the idea of Brexit was floated by those who have something to gain from the folly, those who had the most to lose warned that the grand ideal of English nationalism would inflict serious damage upon the hard-won peace brought to Northern Ireland.During three decades of political and secta...
Right now, in Wuhan, a delegation from the World Health Organisation is beginning its work into trying to figure out just how and when Covid-19 emerged from the Chinese city and began its spread around the globe a year ago. It seems so much longer.The WHO team landed in Wuhan on Jan 12 but has been ...
Last weekend, the Sunday Times published an opinion poll that is sending ripples through the UK establishment. According to the poll, 47 per cent of voters in Northern Ireland support staying in the United Kingdom.In anyone’s language, that’s just lukewarm support for the constitutional ...
Many people in the United Kingdom are still in holiday mode, usually in the mood for retail therapy as shops slash prices to get rid of their last seasonal inventories, and the day’s fare usually consists of turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings that remain leftover from Christmas Day.But thi...
If the coronavirus pandemic never happened — wishful thinking for sure for some many millions across Europe — 2020 would have been a year dominated by the prolonged debate over the United Kingdom and its future relationship with the European Union.And as 2021 begins, there is indeed ever...
On Monday, some 13,000 families up and down the United Kingdom woke up to the reality that they would be likely losing jobs as a result of Britain’s leading chain of retail stores being placed into bankruptcy administration. Tuesday wasn’t much better.Another 12,000 jobs will likely be l...
When the leaders of the 27 nations gathered in Brussels last weekend for what would be a marathon summit on the current and future financing of the European Union, the absence of the UK delegation was hardly noticed.No, it’s not because the Brits weren’t there, it’s because the Dut...
Not for the first time in the recent history of France, tensions are running high in its banlieues — the high-rise suburbs of mainly social housing that ring many cities there. The banlieues are flashpoints between marginalised low-income residents, many of whom are Arab and black and tra...
Some years ago, in a large open square in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk, I watched ageing Communists gather under the shadows of a very polished granite plinth where, some 30 metres above, Vladimir Lenin stood for decades.As these geriatric Bolsheviks peddled dog-eared copies of Pravda along w...
So Boris Johnson has his mandate to Get Brexit Done — and he will indeed do it and take Britain out of the European Union on January 31.But then what? The Conservative manifesto is light on details when it comes to those promises for more hospital funding, more police, more public services.Thu...
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