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
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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
Boris Johnson And The British Suddenly Decide That Being A “Colony” Is A Bad Thing
The image of senior politicians from the former heartland of the British Empire vociferously condemning the European Union for itsContinue Reading
Brexit Britain. An Island Of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Poppies?
The British writer Michael Burleigh, the author of several acclaimed histories of Nazi Germany and the rise of totalitarian regimes inContinue 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
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
Edward Carson: Ulster And Ireland, Puppets In The Political Games Of The Conservative Party
The problem with selective quotes is that they tend to create a selective view of the person being quoted. ThisContinue Reading
The KKK, The DUP, And The Trumpian Toxicity Of Brexit
Not everyone who votes for the DUP dresses up in KKK clothing and poses with clenched fists outside an IslamicContinue 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
Plans For Brexit Food And Medicine Flotilla Stuns British Ministers
By all accounts, yesterday’s meeting of the British cabinet to discuss the latest twists in the country’s stalled withdrawal negotiationsContinue Reading
Greater England And The Dream Of A Brexit Empire
I doubt that you will find a better summation of the delusions still gripping the Brexit movement in the UnitedContinue Reading
UK Labour’s John McDonnell: I’m A Republican. I Long For A United Ireland
Yesterday’s claim by John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer for the British Labour Party, that he longs for a reunitedContinue Reading
UK Cabinet: “Northern Ireland” Is Leverage In Brexit Negotiations With The EU
Leverage in Brexit talks with the European Union. That is is how senior officials in the government of the UnitedContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Father On A Hard Border: The Irish Shoot Each Other, That Is Something They Do
Stanley Johnson, the right-wing political commentator and father of Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for Foreign andContinue Reading
The DUP’s Brexit Plan? Harden The Border, Save The Union
The Irish-born journalist and author Walter Ellis is probably best known in this country for his 2006 autobiography, The BeginningContinue 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
Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael, The United Ireland Party
As was noted over on the Cedar Lounge Revolution, Brexit is not just causing chaos in the politics of Britain.Continue Reading
Majority Of UK Leave Voters Would Risk Peace For Brexit
87% of people in the north-east of Ireland who voted in favour of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the EuropeanContinue 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
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