Governance
Brexit
Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit goods trade
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog article complements the Assembly Research and Information Paper Internal Market Act 2020 and the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. It explains Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements. including how those arrangements have been defined by
The UK’s exit from the EU – Data protection, adequacy and divergence
Reading Time: 8 minutes This article examines the UK’s exit from the EU in the context of data protection, and highlights the considerations that will apply as the UK considers the costs, benefits and complications of divergence from EU
Dispute resolution under the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Withdrawal Agreement, and was designed to deal with the effect of the UK’s exit from the EU on the island of Ireland. This Protocol sets out arrangements
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Statistics & GIS
Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reading Time: 9 minutes The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to think about it. The ‘R number’ that most of us non-epidemiologists had never heard of
Where are we on the COVID-19 curve? (Update at 16 April 2020)
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a follow-up to the recent blog article, ‘Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?. The previous article used three day averages for COVID-19 deaths to compare the positions of the UK and
Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Most of us by now understand the need to ‘flatten the curve’ in order to reduce the number of overall cases of COVID-19 and to keep the peak of infections below the threshold of
