What is Article 16 and how is it related to the Northern Ireland Protocol? Article 16 is a safeguarding mechanism within

Friday 10th September: what do I need to know? Universal Credit The Tories are revolting – I know they are, I hear

What do we have today? There’s Covid, (going badly) Brexit, (going worse) and Northern Ireland (what can one say?). Democracy is

Today: Northern Ireland, Supermarket Shortages, Batley and Spen By Election, China. Brexit: The Sausage Wars Are Over – For Now! Yesterday, the

(Also NATO meets today to consider China – but, apparently, still wants to avoid a Cold War: more soon.) So the

It’s often said, and with some truth, that people who have serial, recurring, seriously dysfunctional and ultimately unsuccessful relationships –

Northern Ireland: Nothing Is Working. Today David Frost wrote this for the Financial Times. Remember when you read it that HE

Or, is the protocol alive or dead? Schrödinger created his famous cat in 1935, making it the unfortunate participant in a

What do we have for you today? Firstly, Covid. Yes, the Indian variant, There is growing concern in the scientific community about

Four weeks ago, there were encouraging noises coming out of the UK Government, which said that "positive momentum" had been