I confess to being a big fan of the Netherlands. Their pragmatic nature appeals to me—things just seem to work there. You ...

This round of the URC feels like a bit of a dress rehearsal for the Wales vs. Ireland match with Ospreys playing Leinster, ...

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In the halls of Stormont and across local government, words like “reform,” “transformation,” and “efficiency” are tossed about with alarming frequency when it comes to the future of our Health Service ...

The human mind is incapable of rest, what it needs is change” -Winston Churchill There’s definitely a change in the air when ...

President Trump’s latest Executive order is, for me, the straw that broke the camel’s back. I actually thought it was a meme ...

How persuadable people think seems to form a bit of a blind spot for those to whom it should matter most – people who are ...

For those of us who have spent decades in the private sector, watching the financial mismanagement within the Northern ...

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