Belfast Harbour – once feeding one of the great industrial hubs of the world now serving a city which is not living up to its potential The Financial Times has just been sold to the Japanese for £844…
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The Easter Rising: a terrible beauty and a challenge in the 21st century Pity Dan Mulhall, the urbane Irish ambassador to the Court of St James. A press aide to Dick Spring during the turbulent but dramatic nineties, Mulhall…
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God save the… BBC another British institution under threat. The Queen interrupts the news, is her Government is planning to interrupt the BBC We have America to thanks for the BBC. When broadcasting was in its infancy, the…
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Lord George Brown: a tired and emotional man There’s a fabulous story about George Brown, the former British Foreign Secretary in Harold Wilson’s first government. It’s almost certainly not true, but it should be. Brown was a drunk…
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