All eyes were on them yesterday, it cannot be denied. The long awaited meeting between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon yesterday: the first since their rather public spat about the possibility of a second independence […]
Theresa May has a busy week. Yesterday she was in Glasgow for talks with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Prior to that meeting, she addressed the Department for International Development whose office is based in […]
Theresa May will trigger Article 50 tomorrow by writing a letter to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council. The official two year negotiating period in which the UK will still remain part of the European […]
The following is a very good article from Bloomberg today emphasising the importance of a strong and stable Assembly in Northern Ireland. The main points are as follows: For the first time in Northern Ireland […]
The Northern Ireland Assembly The present version of the Assembly came into operation in May 2007. It followed an agreement between the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland’s political parties in relation to the […]
‘No I won’t’, says DUP leader Arlene Foster, pictured above on the right next to Sinn Fein leader (for Northern Ireland) Michelle O’Neill. Ms Foster has just taken the biggest number of seats in the […]
Yesterday the House of Lords voted 358 to 256 in favour of amending the Brexit bill. I didn’t even realise there were that many in the House of Lords. Quite a turnout! We all know that […]
En route to work the other day after dropping my son off at school, I was listening in the car to the Today program on Radio 4. Speaking on the program were BBC documentary maker Michael Cockerell and […]
Understanding structures of government help us to understand the news, whether we reside in the country or not. Unfortunately, systems of government are not really taught in the UK educational sector and this is why, […]
So said Aristotle. And if you’re fed up always being serious but still want to know a bit about Ken Clarke speaking at the House of Commons yesterday, the lone wolf amongst all those who […]
