Building a new future will require a willingness to compromise
Seismic changes in Britain have huge implications for both parts of Ireland – and everyone in the North should prepare for some give and take
In the summer of 2012, when I was dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ulster, I sat in a hotel in Beijing with a senior DUP minister in the Stormont government. We were there together to help unlock Chinese investment in the teaching of Chinese in the North. We believed this had the potential to unlock foreign direct investment (FDI) for the North. We got the funding, because politicians from all ...