On August 14, the overwhelmed prime minister of Northern Ireland called on the British government to send in troops to restore order. It was the beginning of a decades-long deployment in Northern Ireland by the British military. “Basically the entire Northern Ireland state collapsed over a perio...
The UK only became a democracy in a meaningful sense of that term by 1918 with the achievement of universal (male) suffrage after a long process of constitutional struggle. In the previous decades a wide political consensus had emerged to the effect that the Westminster Parliament sho...
Britain’s new king, Charles III, will take the reins of this organization composed of former colonies. But the royal family’s leadership of the Commonwealth is no longer a given—here’s why.
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How an exam helped divide a people Direct rule or not, the question of abolishing the contentious 11- plus in Northern Ireland is still pertinent. By Anne McHardyMcHardy, Anne
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One common way to categorize Instagram influencers and their earning potential is to sort them into five tiers based on their follower count. As a general rule of thumb,influencer pricingtends to correspond with these follower numbers: Nano-influencer: 1,000–10,000 followers ($10–$100 per ...
Whatley says England used its 1707 union with Scotland as a model for Great Britain’s 1801 union with Ireland. However, the Irish Union didn’t last nearly as long. Between 1919 and 1921, theIrish Republican Armyfought for independence from the U.K. The Irish War of Independence ended wi...
However, highly consequential corruption issues have none the less occurred, notably in 2017–18 in Northern Ireland when the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme, known as the ‘cash for ash’ scandal, broke. Begun in 2012, this policy initiative aimed to create an incentive for businesses in...