In the dangerous days of the Cold War, UK civil servants created detailed plans for the quickest way to get Queen Elizabeth out of London, should it look like the capital was in imminent danger from Russian nukes. Last week, they dusted off and “repurposed” those plans. Fears of civic disorder and possible riot, as […]

The perennial row over the Department of Health’s budget is well under way. The robust email exchanges have started. Civil servants are gearing up for the return of their political masters as the countdown to Budget 2020 begins. Politically and economically, this is the most important Budget of the last four years. We have had […]

Simon Coveney is a skilled yachtsman, but cheered on by RTE he has set a reckless course hoping to round Cape Boris and return in triumph flying the green flag. If he fails, we all go down on his political yacht. If he succeeds, he will surely take a second bite at the leadership of […]

Sir – Coming from a farming background, I understand and empathise with the present plight of Irish beef farmers. There seems to be no easy solution to the crisis they are facing. Dairy farmers had similar problems in the past, so they opted into the cooperative movement and set up cooperative creameries and achieved ownership […]

Alex Trebek has some good news — he’ll be returning for the next season of Jeopardy! after officially completing chemotherapy. The veteran game show host was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in March and underwent a lot of treatment to get to where he is now. It’s an illness with a grim prognosis and an […]

BERLIN — Nov. 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There will be no lack of commemoration — but there will also be very little celebration. Today the country is once again divided along East-West lines, and growing more so. As it does, the historical narrative of what really happened […]

Exhibition Park is celebrating a banner year for Whoop-Up Days. The annual five-day summer festival in Lethbridge saw its 2019 attendance numbers grow by 20 per cent over the previous year, and surpassed what was a record year for attendance in 2017 by 3.3 per cent. “We did have exceptional success with the first year […]

To the Editor: Re “Opioid Maker Hit With a Penalty of $572 Million” (front page, Aug. 27): Yawn! This is an old story. Fines that do not cripple a guilty enterprise are nothing more than the cost of doing business. Johnson & Johnson (and Wall Street) are thrilled at the minimal amount. However, beyond fines, […]

“She’s like my older sister”— that’s not how most undergraduates think about their advisers. But it was the first thing that came to Elodie Oriental’s mind when she described Hanna Tenadu. “I go to her to explain everything I’m going through,” said Ms. Oriental, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who, with her twin sister, Ismaelle, […]

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Sweden’s EQT Partners is planning to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in the coming days in a deal that is likely to value the buyout firm at around 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion), according to three sources familiar with the matter. The private equity firm has appointed JPMorgan and SEB as […]