Boris Johnson’s Belfast Visit And Meetings Signals New DUP Alliance
According to a terse official statement issued yesterday by the government in London, during a series of meetings in BelfastContinue Reading
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A Unionist Perspective On The DUP And Brexit
As a “small u” unionist, from a Protestant background, I was more than content with the situation in Northern IrelandContinue Reading
Tory Leadership Contender Michael Gove: An “Orange” Unionist
By all accounts the headline-making confession of cocaine use by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food andContinue Reading
DUP Declines To Comment On Support Of Loyalists Militants In The European Election
As voters in the north-east of the country go to the polls to elect three MEPs to the European Parliament,Continue Reading
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors. How The DUP And The Brexiteers Took Europe Hostage
The second part of the BBC documentary Brexit: Behind Closed Doors might as well be called “How Arlene Foster BlewContinue Reading
The DUP Loses Staunch Ally With The Firing Of Gavin Williamson
The sacking of Gavin Williamson, the British Secretary of State for Defence, has robbed the Democratic Unionist Party of oneContinue 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
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
Boris Johnson Plays Orange Card In Bonkers Speech To Rapturous DUP Conference
The United Kingdom’s colony on the island of Ireland, from the historical Thirty-Two Counties to the contemporary Six Counties, has longContinue Reading
How Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Rump Colony In Ireland
The Irish-born author and activist Richard Seymour, who hails from a unionist background in County Antrim, has written an excoriatingContinue Reading
If The UK Reneges On The Backstop Agreement, Can It Be Trusted On Any Brexit Deal?
Simon Coveney, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, has warned his counterparts in the United Kingdom that they must abideContinue Reading
The DUP Threatens Political Chaos If Theresa May Crosses Its Blood Red Brexit Lines
It seems that the Democratic Unionist Party is sticking to its tooth-and-nail opposition to a compromise Brexit deal between theContinue Reading
DUP Boss Arlene Foster Issues “Blood Red” Warning To The UK Premier Theresa May
For people familiar with the coded language of British unionism in Ireland there is no denying the subliminal threat behindContinue Reading
DUP MP: “Build It As High As You Like, That Wall, That Border”
The British journalist and broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty on her popular LBC radio show in Britain responding to a caller’s claim thatContinue Reading
Will The DUP Get Further Protection For British Army Killers?
The news that the Democratic Unionist Party may have secured a major concession from the Conservative Party government in theContinue Reading
Will Theresa May Face Down Arlene Foster To Secure The EU-UK Backstop Deal?
Is the United Kingdom about to compromise on its hardline negotiations with the European Union over the issue of theContinue Reading
DUP Leader Arlene Foster Points Finger At Others For The RHI Scandal
If observers were expecting Arlene Foster, the leader of the controversy-mired Democratic Unionist Party, to face the same level ofContinue Reading
The DUP Adopts A Scorched Earth Policy For Irish And Gay Rights
Peter Robinson, the former head of the Democratic Unionist Party, may be urging pro-union leaders in the north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
Peter Robinson, A Reunited Ireland, And Unionism’s Narrowing Options
Last week’s speech by Peter Robinson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (and for many years,Continue Reading
The UK Is Holding The Peace Process As A Political Hostage In Its Brexit Negotiations
There are few other British historical figures more controversial – and more reviled – in the popular culture of IrelandContinue Reading
The DUP Nominates Biblical Creationist Nelson McCausland To The Education Authority
In the United Kingdom the Conservative and Unionist Party, to give the mainstream right-wing political group its full title, isContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP’s “Crimean Bridge” To Scotland
Following the military annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea by the Russian Federation in early 2014, supposedly in responseContinue Reading
