For anyone involved in trade across the Irish Sea, the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol has become a phrase to make you wince. If anyone thought the years of wrangling it took to ‘get Brexit done’ were finally over when the UK left the EU on 1st January 2021, think again. Even as we write, the [.....]

For the retail sector, Christmas isn’t just the season to be jolly. It is a critically important time for business, too, with some retailers seeing as much as a third of their total annual sales come in the pre-Christmas rush. Yet there has not been a great deal of festive cheer doing the rounds in [.....]