THE British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, in what was advertised last week as a major speech, was to lay out the plans for economic growth of what passes for Sunak’s government.

APPARENTLY northerners and southerners hardly know each other.

PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins made the news last week following his calls for homework to become a thing of the past.

THE late Seamus Mallon once said: “Solve policing in Northern Ireland and the politics will fall into place.

YOU will surely have been unable to avoid the news that a big chunk of Irish acting and film-making talent has been recognised by this year's Academy Awards, mostly thanks to The Banshees of Inisherin.

I wrote last week of my bewilderment at the BBC's sketchy coverage of the story of Conservative party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, paying millions in tax after a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs.

I wonder if history is about to repeat itself.

THIS week and next mark the anniversaries of events that signal the decline and fall of the British empire.

IN the photographs I’ve seen, Kitara Ravache’s make-up is on point.