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Twenty-five years ago this week, a deal known as the Good Friday Agreement had last brought a period known as the Troubles to an End. For three decades, tensions between the two camps made life in Northern Ireland one of ceaseless violence. And there are really quite a lot of works by Pablo Picasso out there - but that market may well be cooling.

The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-century on it has led to depressingly dysfunctional politics. The next generation of vaccines is already on the way—and the first thing to do is get them out of the freezer. And why the long-frothy market for works by Pablo Picasso may at last be cooling.

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