In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day,

who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start,

and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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This is the BBC.

Music is the BBC. At the end of the day, there isn't a magic money tree that suddenly delivers all the money that everybody wants for the spending everybody wants.

We have to stop thinking, as you do, that there's a magic money tree.

It's as if they think there is some magic money tree.

And let me tell you a plain truth.

There isn't.

We tell children money doesn't grow on trees.

Politicians tell us there's no such thing as a magic money tree.

But is that really true?

Politicians might deny it, but there really is a magic money tree.

And since the financial crisis a decade ago, it's produced well over £500 billion.

That's a staggering sum, is what it costs to fund the NHS for the best part of four years.

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