Stephen Farry

@StephenFarryUU

Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice and co-director of the Ulster University Strategic Policy Unit | Email: s.farry@ulster.ac.uk

All views are my own.

Belfast, Northern Ireland ulster.ac.uk Joined May 2012

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Stephen Farry @StephenFarryUU Oct 30

One of the main takeaways from the UK Budget is the enhanced tax assignment to English Mayors. There is the opportunity to shape something similar for NI and to create better incentives for economic growth. @UlsterUniSPU has been exploring this. See
linkedin.com/pulse/ni-lacks…

www.linkedin.com NI Lacks Incentives for Growth: Does Burnham’s Rewiring the State Offer a Way Forward? Andy Burnham’s has commenced his premiership with a commitment to address the centralisation of the UK economy and to strengthen devolved regions. At present, only 2 out 12 UK regions are net...

Belfast News Letter @News_Letter Oct 30

Burnham offers to work with devolved governments to spread power to regions trib.al/ryPnSBs
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Stephen Farry @StephenFarryUU Sep 25

Article from our visiting professor @UlsterUniSPU Kailash Chada on how the Corporation Tax issue can be revisited. We can't afford to sit within the current economic and policy context of minimal incentives. Time for new ideas.

Belfast Telegraph @BelTel Sep 25

The power to set a local corporation tax rate was won after years of political effort, yet it has never been used. Perhaps the mistake wasn’t the ambition itself, but the way we tried to achieve it, writes Kailiash Chada 🖋️
Read more: tinyurl.com/32mec77f

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Stephen Farry @StephenFarryUU Sep 25

There is also the matter of the 27/28 FY Budget. Ordinarily preparations for next year's budget would be under way. In the past, budgets have been set by outgoing Executives before an election eg 2011 & 2016.

BBC News NI @BBCNewsNI Sep 24

The Northern Ireland Secretary of State has said the government's £1.5bn financial package for Stormont is his "final offer" and has given executive parties until next Thursday to respond. bbc.in/4yU8uwm
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Stephen Farry @StephenFarryUU Sep 9

The tragedy is that whilst there is a clear need for international co-operation and global governance to manage AI, we are in the midst of a time when the rules-based international order is at its most vulnerable point in decades.

Jacob Coxon Verified account @hilbertspaess Sep 9

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Stephen Farry @StephenFarryUU Sep 2

In this article, I set out how some of the proposals within Burnham's 'Rewiring the State' to enhance the powers for English Mayors could work for NI, including addressing the lack of incentives for the Executive to prioritise economic growth.

Belfast Live @BelfastLive Sep 2

Writing for Belfast Live, Ulster University Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice, @StephenFarryUU, questions if Andy Burnham's 'Rewiring the State' offers a way forward for Northern Ireland

belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-…
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