Ireland’s British Apologists Find A New Cause In Brexit
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The EU And IRA Conspiracy Theories Of The Paranoid Brexiteers
Depressingly familiar stuff from the American writer turned anglophile polemicist Lionel Shriver in the UK’s conservative Spectator magazine, peddling one of theContinue Reading
The UK Has “Ripped Up the Good Friday Agreement”
A dire assessment by Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons, on theContinue Reading
EU Brexit Negotiator Sabine Weyand Tears Apart The UK’s Fake Backstop Claims
A rare press appearance by Sabine Weyand, the European Union’s Deputy Chief Negotiator for Brexit, where the German-born diplomat absolutely eviscerates theContinue Reading
Dutch Warning: UK Insistence On No Backstop Could Bring Back The Troubles
In the video clip below, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, expresses his frustration with the United Kingdom’sContinue Reading
BBC Broadcaster John Humphrys: Ireland Should Join With The UK Outside The EU
The British journalist John Humphrys has a reputation for occasionally allowing his right-wing instincts to filter into his broadcasting butContinue Reading
Leo Varadkar: British Police And Army On The Border If No-Deal Brexit
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking yesterday on the issue of a no-deal Brexit with two rather poorly-informed if somewhat sympatheticContinue Reading
UK Brexiteer James Delingpole Cannot Answer Questions On No-Deal Brexit
If the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is the Patient Zero of ethnocentric populism in the English-speaking world, withContinue Reading
That Embarrassing Fianna Fáil And SDLP Partnership
So, it turns out that today’s big announcement by Fianna Fáil of its long-heralded expansion into northern politics is lessContinue Reading
Lesley Riddoch, Fintan O’Toole And Anthony Barnett On Brexit And England
An interesting discussion on Brexit chaired by the Scottish newspaper columnist Lesley Riddoch, featuring the Irish author Fintan O’Toole andContinue Reading
Theresa May To Achieve Brexit By Rewriting The Good Friday Agreement?
Last week ended with press reports that Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was discussing plans withContinue Reading
Caolan Robertson, British Hard-Right Narcissist, In PR Stunt On Sky News
For some inexplicable reason Caolan Robertson, an Irish-born immigrant in Britain who has spent the last few years propagandising againstContinue Reading
Jacob Rees-Mogg Flounders In An Interview With James O’Brien On LBC
The British radio presenter James O’Brien tackles the hardline Conservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg on his LBC show in a rareContinue Reading
David Davis: Opposing The Imposition Of The Backstop While Supporting The Imposition Of Brexit
David Davis, Britain’s former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and a leading hardline supporter of Brexit, speaking toContinue Reading
Truly Miss Marple – The Curious Case of Margaret Rutherford
Of the many actresses who have played the role of Agatha Christie’s genteel fictional sleuth Miss Jane Marple in cinema andContinue Reading
The Brexit Empire And The Reuters’ Columnist John Lloyd
In a recent article for the press agency Reuters, the British commentator John Lloyd has poured scorn on the widelyContinue Reading
The Burkean Journal
Speaking of right-wing media, The Burkean Journal is an interesting publication. Launched in the latter half of 2017, with fundingContinue Reading
ASF YouTube Suspension
Just to let readers know, An Sionnach Fionn is experiencing yet another wave of vexatious complaints against its presence onContinue Reading
Ireland’s New Right: Online And On-Message
Some readers in Ireland will be aware of theliberal.ie, an unashamedly populist “infotainment” website with ambitions of becoming a sortContinue Reading
The Bloody Language Of Brexit
Some interesting thoughts from the newspaper columnist Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times on the radical Brexit movement in theContinue Reading
Chapo Trap House On Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers
It’s remarkable that the Dutch film-maker Paul Verhoeven, the director of such Hollywood dross as Basic Instinct and Showgirls inContinue Reading
300 Recruits, Riot Control Experts And 1000 British Police Officers For North Of Ireland
Back on December 19th when several newspapers in the United Kingdom reported that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)Continue Reading
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