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
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The UK Offers Power Over Brexit And The Backstop Protocol To The DUP
So it seems that the perennial wrecker of Irish and British politics, the Democratic Unionist Party, is being asked toContinue Reading
UK No-Deal Brexit: Zero Tariffs For Border Commerce, All Tariffs For Irish Sea Commerce
Political schizophrenia? Is there any other way to describe the condition gripping the United Kingdom following the announcement of itsContinue Reading
Belgium MEP Philippe Lamberts: EU Will Impose Sea Border With Ireland
I think it’s safe to say that the former BBC journalist Tim Sebastian has gone full-UKIP in this bizarrely aggressiveContinue Reading
Documentary: A Federal Ireland? The View From 1978
With the distinct possibility that the country is moving towards parallel referendums on the question of reunification within the nextContinue Reading
UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox’s Spurious Backstop Human Rights Claim
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016 government ministers and officials in the United Kingdom have worked towards a withdrawal dealContinue Reading
An Article 50 Extension Could Bolster The UK’s Brexit Stubbornness
As speculation about the United Kingdom requesting an extension of its Article 50 withdrawal period from the European Union continuesContinue 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
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
Invasion Literature Becomes Invasion Cinema, Prefiguring Trump And Brexit
In many ways the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871 was one of the most influential political events in the lives of an entire generationContinue 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
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
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
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