She explained that the way into stories for her is through concepts, and gave a brilliant example in the shape a story in her latest collection that was commissioned to explore how Northern Ireland is seen in the wake of Brexit. She had approached the subject by envisaging a baby drifting ...
But these official statements and clarifications were not enough. On the day of the referendum, I encountered multiple people in the UK who pointed to the figure as a reason they were voting to leave the EU, and nothing I said could convince them. One woman I spoke to, describing herself ...
The pandemic and Sino-American tensions almost over-shadowed what would have been the principal trade story of the year: nearly four-and-a-half years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, London and Brussels finally completed Brexit. On December 30, 2020—one day prior ...
As is so often the case in books from elsewhere, it is the assumptions and things taken for granted that prove most intriguing. One of the central characters in ‘Is This Fair?’, for example, seems not to bat an eyelid at the notion that her parents will decide her career path, as ...
them, only to be met with the predictable demands for more surrenders of powers, fish and money. It has failed to draft a Free Trade Agreement to put to President Trump who wanted Mrs May to agree one soon after the Brexit vote only to be told the EU would not approve before we ...
and gave a brilliant example in the shape a story in her latest collection that was commissioned to explore how Northern Ireland is seen in the wake of Brexit. She had approached the subject by envisaging a baby drifting down a river separating the land of two farmer brothers who don’t ...