Brexit Speech: Theresa May Not

Posted on by Sophia C McBride
Theresa May's Brexit Speech

Following the Secretary of State’s announcement yesterday that a Northern Ireland election will take place on 2 March 2017, today it was Prime Minister Theresa May’s turn to take to the stage for her Brexit speech. Watching and listening along with many others to the government’s views on the single market, customs, and migration, I couldn’t help but notice one thing in particular: “A Global Britain”.

Je suis chanceuse: Charlie Hebdo two years on

Posted on by Sophia C McBride

On 7 January 2015 at about midday local time, I sat down to lunch with my colleagues in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It was then that I learnt how around 30 minutes earlier two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the 11th arrondissement offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.