You ll never walk alone again Captain Sir Tom Moore 15 February, 2021 00:59
In the 1945 musical Carousel, the grief stricken Julie Jordan attempts to sing You’ll Never Walk Alone following the sudden death of her lover, the protagonist Billy Bigelow. She breaks down after the first line in the arms of her cousin Nettie Fowler, who then sings the song to Julie. Oscar Hammerstein wrote the lyrics and Richard Rogers composed the instrumental piece specifically for this precise moment, allowing Nettie to portray a message of comfort, conciliation and inspiration to her cousin to keep going in times of suffering and struggle.
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UK trade hit hard as Brexit crisis deepens
The economic dislocation caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) is making itself felt, threatening serious political consequences for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government and the Brexit agreement.
At the centre of the crisis is Northern Ireland. According to the Northern Ireland Protocol agreed between the UK and the EU, Northern Ireland remains within the EU’s single market for goods, meaning import and export checks must be carried out on goods travelling between Britain and Northern Ireland. This effectively placed a customs border down the Irish Sea, rather than between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland an EU member state which would have compromised the Good Friday Agreement ending the armed conflict in the northern six counties.
Transport and logistics experts attempting to navigate customs changes brought about by Brexit have criticised a support scheme managed under a £200m contract awarded to a consortium led by a multinational IT firm.