Documentary: A Federal Ireland? The View From 1978
With the distinct possibility that the country is moving towards parallel referendums on the question of reunification within the nextContinue Reading
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UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox’s Spurious Backstop Human Rights Claim
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016 government ministers and officials in the United Kingdom have worked towards a withdrawal dealContinue Reading
UK Minister Karen Bradley: Irish Killings By British Forces Were “Not Crimes”
With the political and press establishment in the United Kingdom racketing up its protests against any attempt by the regionalContinue Reading
Ex-SDLP Leader Mark Durkan Becomes Fine Gael European Candidate
The news that Mark Durkan, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, has suspended his party membershipContinue Reading
Adam Savage Visits The Home Of Terry English, Master Armourer
I think most readers are aware of my interest in prehistoric, Classical and Medieval military history. Body armour and helmetsContinue Reading
Ex-UDA Gunman Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair Gets The YouTube Treatment
I honestly don’t know what to make of this rather fawning interview by the Scottish YouTuber James English with theContinue Reading
An Article 50 Extension Could Bolster The UK’s Brexit Stubbornness
As speculation about the United Kingdom requesting an extension of its Article 50 withdrawal period from the European Union continuesContinue Reading
Broadsheet.ie, The Alt-Right, And The Oxygen Of Publicity
I notice that the broadsheet.ie, an Irish current affairs and culture blog with Buzzfeedian ambitions, has got itself into aContinue Reading
Dominic Raab Fakes Brexiteer Concern For Peace In Ireland With Anti-EU Diatribe
Despite some British press claims to the contrary there seems to be precious little evidence that the so-called European ResearchContinue Reading
Tommy Robinson And BBC Panorama: Fake Victim, Fake Democrat
Last Saturday’s show of strength by Britain’s burgeoning far-right movement outside the regional headquarters of the BBC in Salford, GreaterContinue Reading
Brexit And The Resurgence Of Hibernophobia In Britain
As the British Prime Minister Theresa May stumbles from crisis to crisis in the ongoing Brexit debacle, seemingly with noContinue Reading
Video: A British Left-Wing Review Of Brexit And Ireland
The video below, from Novara Media in Britain, examines the potential impact of Brexit on Ireland, with contributions by ChrisContinue Reading
The Labour MPs Of The Independent Group. More Tory Than The Tories Themselves?
When it comes to politics, I’m pretty much your typical centre-left, social-democratic, wishy-washy, and occasionally hypocritical, bleeding heart liberal. IContinue Reading
The British Press And The Meaning Of The “Hated Irish Backstop”
I strongly suspect that for some news publications in Britain, when it comes to Ireland and the Irish refusal toContinue Reading
Controversy: The Burkean And Irish Ultra-Conservatism
Back in January I briefly touched upon the appearance of a minuscule if surprisingly vociferous neo-right tendency in Ireland, withContinue Reading
Brexit Leader Jacob-Rees Mogg Defends Use Of British Concentration Camps
From 1900 to 1902, during the height of the Second Boer War between the expansionist British Empire and the allied EuropeanContinue Reading
The Verge, Vox Media, Bitwit And Those YouTube Copyright Claims
Back in September 2018 the well-known American technology news website, The Verge, published a lengthy guide in written and video formContinue Reading
Northern Ireland Is As British As Finchley? Not Even Remotely
When the United Kingdom formally partitioned Ireland in May 1921, six loyalist or secessionist counties in the north-east of the islandContinue Reading
British Government: Britain Will Be Militarily Interventionist After Brexit
Brexit means many different things to many different people in the United Kingdom, but one of the few things mostContinue Reading
Donald Tusk: “Special Place In Hell” For Reckless Promoters Of Brexit
Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, has used today’s meeting in Brussels with An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar toContinue Reading
Brexit Fruitloops: The American And French Edition
More spurious explanations and justifications for Brexit, this time from the American economist Michael Ivanovitch writing for CNBC in the UnitedContinue Reading
Invasion Literature Becomes Invasion Cinema, Prefiguring Trump And Brexit
In many ways the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871 was one of the most influential political events in the lives of an entire generationContinue Reading
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