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
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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
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
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
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
Former Tory Minister: The Irish Really Should Know Their Place
On the British reaction to the Irish insistence that Britain’s proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union must includeContinue Reading
Tory MP Priti Patel: UK Should Use Threat Of Food Shortages To Pressure Ireland
Priti Patel, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for International Development, has urged London to use the threat ofContinue Reading
Brexit Brits Couldn’t Organise A Piss-up In A Brewery
Watching from afar, one is left with the impression that the ongoing Brexit debate in London has taken on someContinue Reading
No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue Reading
Brexit Britain’s Leave And Remain Camps Are Equally Ignorant Of Ireland
Given that the political history of Ireland has been forcibly bound up with the history of England since the 12thContinue 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
Backstop Deal Under Threat As Theresa May Accuses Europeans Of Jumping The Queue
With the ink barely dry on the draft withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union, Sky News inContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Apologists Become Brexit Sympathisers
One of the odder complaints emanating from those Irish writers and commentators who have devoted their professional careers to actingContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Brexit Draft Deal: The Reality Of Post-Brexit Relations In Europe
By any measure the recently published “Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernContinue Reading
No Surrender! Boris Johnson On Dublin, London And Partition
On the 15th of November 1985 at Hillsborough Castle, south-west of Belfast, the government of the United Kingdom signed an internationalContinue Reading
The EU’s Michel Barnier: No Accord, No Transition For UK Without The Backstop
Rumour, speculation, leaks and unattributed briefings seems to be the order of the day, as the Irish and British mediaContinue Reading
Senior British Official: “Ireland Is Fucked” In Proposed UK-EU Deal
The headline claim comes from a sparsely detailed and frequently contradictory exclusive by The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain, suggestingContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue 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
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