European Parliamentary Elections: A Proxy Border Poll?
Such is the pace of the Brexit beast as it charges towards the no-deal cliffs, by the time I publishContinue Reading
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The Garda Commissioner Drew Harris And The PSNI Armed Escort And Jeep
The appointment of Drew Harris as the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána in September 2018 was presented by some sympatheticContinue Reading
Dave Rubin. The Useful Idiot Of The Alt-Right
The American YouTube celebrity Dave Rubin is an interesting character. He first came to public prominence as a moderately successfulContinue Reading
The Rocketeer
From before the era of tent-pole summer blockbusters and superhero extravaganzas, comes The Rocketeer, one of my favourite genre moviesContinue Reading
Ireland, The British Commonwealth, Neutrality And NATO
Newton Emerson is one of those political commentators you never know whether to take seriously or not. There are daysContinue Reading
Majority Of UK Voters Want Rid Or Don’t Care About “Northern Ireland”
A majority of voters in the United Kingdom, some 55%, would prefer if “Northern Ireland” joined a reunited Ireland ratherContinue Reading
Four Brexit Votes: UK Parliament Says No To Everything, Yes To Nothing
Following another night of parliamentary chaos in London I’m reminded of the (apocryphal) demand by King Henry II of England,Continue Reading
Employee Unions In The Digital Media, From Vox To Buzzfeed
Given the animosity expressed by the libertarian cliques of Silicon Valley towards trade unionism, the growth of unions among theContinue Reading
Whatever Happens, The DUP And Brexit Has Made A Reunited Ireland Inevitable
It’s been a remarkable seventy-two hours for the Democratic Unionist Party. Its leaders have gone from being fêted as theContinue Reading
UK Minister On Theresa May’s Brexit Plans: “Fuck Knows. I’m Past Caring. It’s Like The Living Dead In Here”
Nicholas Watt of the BBC’s Newsnight current affairs show explaining the response of a senior Cabinet minister in Theresa May’sContinue Reading
Politico And The Fake “Irish” Supporters Of Brexit
The online machinations of that other IRA, the Russian Federation’s state-linked Internet Research Agency, may have failed to inadvertently bringContinue Reading
The Daily Beast Gets It Wrong On Ireland And The UK Brexit
Nico Hines, the London editor of The Daily Beast, has co-written a rather misleading article on the question of theContinue Reading
John T Koch: Thinking About Indo-European And Celtic Myths
The video below is from a lecture by the American historian John T Koch, summarising the evidence for linking Europe’sContinue Reading
Britain’s Theresa May: Isolated, Frustrated, Scornful
It’s not often in Western Europe that one gets to watch a head of government staging a live television broadcastContinue Reading
For The DUP A Hard Border Is The Very Definition Of Brexit
The lecturer Paul Burgess has written a blunt opinion piece for RTÉ castigating the Irish government for its handing ofContinue Reading
The UK Offers Power Over Brexit And The Backstop Protocol To The DUP
So it seems that the perennial wrecker of Irish and British politics, the Democratic Unionist Party, is being asked toContinue Reading
Elizabeth Holmes And The Theranos Scandal
Featured below is a highly critical look at Theranos, the controversial health technology company eulogised by the denizens of SiliconContinue Reading
Will The UK Revoke The Backstop Protocol By Abusing The Vienna Convention?
According to press reports, the dysfunctional Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom is trying to gain parliamentary support forContinue Reading
The Irish And British News Media, And The Bloody Sunday Massacre
The Irish press is giving ample coverage to the disappointing decision by the authorities in the United Kingdom to prosecuteContinue Reading
UK No-Deal Brexit: Zero Tariffs For Border Commerce, All Tariffs For Irish Sea Commerce
Political schizophrenia? Is there any other way to describe the condition gripping the United Kingdom following the announcement of itsContinue Reading
UK’s Theresa May Claims “Legally Binding Changes” To Unchanged Backstop
The United Kingdom’s inevitable climb down over its objections to the Backstop Protocol in the Draft Withdrawal Agreement with theContinue Reading
Belgium MEP Philippe Lamberts: EU Will Impose Sea Border With Ireland
I think it’s safe to say that the former BBC journalist Tim Sebastian has gone full-UKIP in this bizarrely aggressiveContinue Reading
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