The government's pursuit of tax competitiveness, where countries vie with each other to offer lower corporate tax rates, puts Christensen's hackles right up.
But it raises hackles among those who are mostly unwitting combatants in the war.
Mr Smyth emerged as a challenger when hardliners' hackles were raised by the apparent flexibility towards republicans shown in remarks by Mr Trimble on a recent visit to Washington.
Media have been barred from attending, a move that has already raised the hackles of some shareholders.
Obama took one question that has raised hackles in environmental circles recently, relating to his administration's controversial move earlier this month to allow the oil giant Shell back into the US Arctic for exploratory drilling.
A nagging lyrical firefight rages across his new album, Camp – a title guaranteed to raise hackles – with Glover/Gambino being too black for the white kids he went to school with ("I hate it there, they make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair"), but not black enough for hip-hop, "Rap is for real blacks," a voice declares at one point.
Her gripping, if ludicrous story – be warned that the whole plot is coming – of Amy Dunne, a wealthy and beautiful psychopath whose revenge on her cheating husband involves framing him for her "murder", making up rape allegations against men (one of whom she murders during her demented spree) before trapping her broken husband by stealing his sperm, raised hackles.
Featuring some terrific archive footage, such as Lord Reith sonorously reading out Jerusalem at the end of the 1926 general strike, it provides a potent reminder that, for all the claims of bias levelled at the corporation, Auntie has a proud history of raising the hackles of both the left and the right.
In the documentary list, too, I feel my hackles rising at the omission of Steve James's Life Itself, his portrait of the late Roger Ebert.
And it has just won the championship for the third year in a row.Yet PSG's transformation raises hackles.
OF ALL the new American administration has done to raise hackles in Europe, nothing has met quite as much hostility as its unilateral pronouncement in March, that the Kyoto Protocol was, in effect, dead.
