EU Negotiator Calls For Northern MEPs To Be Added To Ireland’s Representation
Guy Verhofstadt, the chief Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament, has suggested that the number of MEPs representing Ireland shouldContinue Reading
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The DUP, AggregateIQ And Data Mining For The Alt-Right And Far-Right
With the press and news media focusing on the Russian Federation’s alleged contribution to the election of Donald Trump toContinue Reading
The DUP And Its Potential Deal With The Tories: It’s The Border, Stupid!
Journalists are just as susceptible to “fake news” as anyone else, especially when the news chimes with their own beliefsContinue Reading
Ireland Indicates A Harder Line On Irish, British And EU Negotiations Over Brexit
Charlie Flanagan TD, the minister for foreign affairs, has written a surprisingly forceful article for the New European, a pro-EUContinue Reading
The SDLP Calls For A Referendum On A Reunited Ireland. Or Does It?
Well this is somewhat unexpected. The Social Democratic and Labour Party, the minority nationalist grouping in the UK-administrated Six Counties,Continue Reading
The New Partition: Britain’s Brexit Border In Ireland
In a recent discussion stemming from an article examining the mysterious – and unprecedented – pro-Brexit campaign donations gifted to the Democratic UnionistContinue Reading
Theresa May And The Tories Will Seek A British Internet For British People
The recent general election manifesto launch by Theresa May and the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom highlights theContinue Reading
The Uneasy Peace In Britain’s Legacy Colony On The Island Of Ireland
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the United Kingdom’s militarised policing force in the Six Counties, has released its 2016-17 statisticsContinue Reading
The DUP, The Constitutional Research Council And Brexit’s Dark Money Secrets
Back in February ASF examined the financing of the Democratic Unionist Party’s Brexit campaign, in particular the revelation that a secret donation hadContinue Reading
The Full Speech By The EU Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier To The Oireachtas
Today’s address by Michel Barnier, the European Union’s lead Brexit negotiator, to a joint session of Oireachtas Éireann indicates justContinue Reading
The 2017 Local Election Results In The UK, A Victory For UKIP By Any Other Name
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
Northern Nationalists Will Be The Largest Group Of Indigenous EU Citizens Outside The EU
The newly released policy document, “Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union: The Government’s Approach”,Continue Reading
Brendan Howlin, The Labour Party And A Reunited Ireland
My view on our mainstream political parties discussing the reunification of Ireland has always been: put up or shut up.Continue Reading
The Unionist Dilemma In Ireland, Self-Interest Versus Nationality In A Post-Brexit Europe
Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff to prime minister Tony Blair and the lead negotiator for the United Kingdom duringContinue Reading
Mad Dogs And Englishmen: Brexit Britain Threatens War With Spain
It seems that the empire-nostalgic British have finally gone off the deep-end as right wing commentators – and former governmentContinue Reading
Melanie Philips And The Revanchist Politics Of Brexit Britain
The supremacist nature of British, or rather, Greater English nationalism is summed up in this extract from a series of oddly contradictory and counterfactualContinue Reading
The Socialist Party, Anti-Austerity Alliance, The Confederation Of The British Isles
Since I had a slightly tongue-in-cheek poke at the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Trotskyist grouping behind the People BeforeContinue Reading
The People Before Profit Alliance. Made In Britain?
The Ireland correspondent of the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Henry McDonald, writing in today’s edition on the Stormont assembly election inContinue Reading
DUP Laundered Brexit Money For Mysterious Constitutional Research Council
After much speculation, the controversy embroiled Democrat Unionist Party (DUP) has finally come clean and named the British lobby group itContinue Reading
The UK Throws Two Decades Of Irish-British Peace To The Brexit Winds
It’s a rare thing indeed for the national press in Ireland to express anger at the political misdeeds of the unionistContinue Reading
Dermot Ahern, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Predicts Significant Brexit Border
Here is Dermot Ahern, the former Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and a senior minister in several FF-led governments from 1997Continue Reading
An Orange Hall, A Grant, A Mysterious Address And The DUP
Talking of Irish political scandals, it seems that ideological unionism simply cannot help itself. Put to one side the involvement ofContinue Reading
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