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
Category: Current Affairs
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
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
Ireland’s British Apologists Find A New Cause In Brexit
One of the few positives to emerge from the Brexit debacle in the United Kingdom over the last two yearsContinue Reading
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
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