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
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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
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
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
