Sinn Fein’s Deputy Leader Michelle O'Neill out on the campaign trail.
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Northern Ireland is preparing for a potentially seismic election on May 5.
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A citizens’ assembly calls for stronger sanctions for rule breaking MPs.
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A month when the cost of living crisis will be harshly felt.
Workers repair damage at the peace gates following sectarian violence in April 2021.
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Why the Northern Ireland protocol poses real challenges to peace in the region.
In this March 2003 photo, Iraqi soldiers surrender to U.S. Marines following a gunfight. The war has loomed over geopolitical events for the past 19 years.
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The most direct cause of America’s ongoing harrowing descent, including the rise of Donald Trump and his alliance with Vladimir Putin, began 19 years ago with the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Global supply chains and energy prices are not solely to blame for a tough year ahead.
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For all the public anger over the ‘Partygate’ scandal, Johnson’s weakened position owes much to the aftershocks of Brexit.
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2022 has been declared the ‘year of European defence’. If the UK wants to be Global Britain, it should take part.
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The road ahead needs electricity.
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Two profoundly disruptive events combined to make life even more challenging for UK farmers, and now their mental health is suffering. Here’s what can be done.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss could have serious influence over Northern Irish politics this year.
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After Lord Frost’s departure, the future of Brexit negotiations – and the Northern Ireland protocol – are in Liz Truss’s hands.
Get in line.
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Exporters and importers alike are facing more bureaucracy as the full effect of many of the Brexit changes come into effect.
Capturing the public’s attention is about standing out in a crowd of influencers.
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Social influencers vie for public attention in a crowded market place. This makes the bold and the ruthless even more likely to opt for strategic dishonesty if it will further their interests.
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Macron and Johnson both have something to gain by talking tough but the reality on the ground is far more collaborative.
An older couple sit outside beach-huts in Bournemouth.
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These ten drawing show the realities of life at the English seaside in 2021.
Brexit negotiators David Frost (UK) and Michel Barnier (EU) pictured at the start of discussions.
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The UK is threatening to trigger Article 16. What is the Northern Ireland protocol ‘emergency brake’?
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Explaining the rule of law crisis shaking the relationship between Poland and the EU.
A scene from the First Anglo-Dutch War, from British Battles on Land and Sea, by James Grant.
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Years of bitter words and dodgy use of history eventually became the foundations of the modern law of the sea.
The leaders of Ireland’s major churches have been cooperating more closely amid challenges like Brexit and the pandemic.
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A church service marking Northern Ireland’s centenary has stirred up debate. But amid the past few years’ tensions, the island’s Christian leaders have coordinated closely.
Trading places.
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Any notion that trade only started being affected on January 1 2021 is completely wrong.