Britain’s Duplicitous Interpretation Of The Good Friday Agreement Of 1998
As many observers expected, this morning’s judgement by the supreme court in the United Kingdom has thrown not just the Brexit plansContinue Reading
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Guy Verhofstadt, The EU’s Brexit Negotiator And The United States Of Europe
Over the last decade I have moved from being a passionate believer in the European Union to someone who isContinue Reading
Brexit Negotiations Are Driven By Greater England’s Nostalgia For Its Former Empire
Nicholas Boyle of Magdalene College and the University of Cambridge has written a particularly caustic evaluation of Greater England’s continued hegemony overContinue Reading
Did We Barter Articles 2 And 3 For No Stormont And No Good Friday Agreement?
Concerns are growing that we may be witnessing a terminal collapse in the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement (GFA) of 1998,Continue Reading
The Alt-Right Emperor Has No Clothes, In Ireland Or Anywhere Else
In recent days I have been somewhat dismayed by a number of left-leaning individuals who I respect and admire demanding anContinue Reading
Ex-UK Minister And Party Leader, Brexit Must Lead To A Reunited Ireland
Vince Cable, the former leader of the centre-left Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and a senior minister in theContinue Reading
Ulster Unionism, Sustained By The Politics Of Appeasement
At the start of the twentieth century a majority of voters on the island of Ireland in the referendum-style generalContinue Reading
The United States Goes Full Brexit With President Donald J. Trump
Well, here’s one prediction I wish I had got wrong. President Donald J. Trump. Seriously, the United States of America, what the fuck?Continue Reading
Britain Seeks To Control Ireland’s Borders In Deal For No Brexit Barrier Around North
On Saturday afternoon up to a thousand people attended the first in a series of demonstrations in the north of Ireland to protest the possible effects of the UnitedContinue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
Irish Human Shields To Protect A British Border In Ireland?
As fears continue to grow that the United Kingdom is prepared to impose a “Brexit Border“ between the north-east of Ireland and theContinue Reading
Regional Autonomy For North-East Ulster, A United Ireland For Slow Learners
As the negative effects of the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom continue to ripple across this island nationContinue Reading
The Threat Of The Brexit Barrier In Ireland Hasn’t Gone Away You Know
With many observers focusing on the possibility of renewed instability stemming from the threatened “hardening” of the UK-imposed “border” between the north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
Britain’s Toxic Nationalism Threatens Peace In Ireland. And Europe
The Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of April 1998, which ended three decades of open conflict in the British-administrated north-east of Ireland, actually consistsContinue Reading
Views On The Thick Micks From The Colonial Brits
So you’re browsing through the website of a mainstream national newspaper in Ireland and you unexpectedly stumble upon an article indulging the noxiousContinue Reading
A Clear Majority Favours The Reunification Of Ireland
The British apologists of the Irish news media, led by a coterie of decrepit newspaper columnists, have claimed for decades that, “…no one wants aContinue Reading
The Clinton Machine Rolls Over The Opposition At The Democratic National Convention
With Hillary Rodham Clinton anointed as the Democratic Party candidate for president all’s over bar the shouting at the organisation’s 2016 nationalContinue Reading
To Reunite Or Not Reunite, That Is The Question. For Ireland’s Worried Elites
Is it just me, or is the Continuity State going through a period of existential crisis?
The SDLP And Colum Eastwood: Make Me Green, But Not Just Yet
So is it Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader, or the members of the press who are sending mixed messages on the regional party’sContinue Reading
Kenny And Martin Wrap The Green Flag Around A Finger Or Two
The post-referendum effects of the Brexit vote in the UK continue to ripple out across the European Union, lapping up onContinue Reading
Brexit, The Disconnect Between London And Greater England
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
Michael Gove And Brexit’s True Origins, From Anti-Peace To Anti-European?
In the year 2000, responding to the all-party intergovernmental Belfast Agreement of 1998, the peace deal which effectively ended three decades of conflictContinue Reading
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