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 [.....]

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. [.....]