Has The Brexit Armageddon Scenario Softened Or Hardened UK Opinion?
The weekend publication by the Sunday Times newspaper of a leaked “no deal” Brexit study by a group of governmentContinue Reading
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North Of Ireland Will Have Joint EU And UK Status As Irish Sea Border Approaches
A few weeks ago, when discussing the fleeting visit of David Davis, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for ExitingContinue Reading
The Economic Poverty Of Pre-Brexit Britain
The New York Times has a long article by Peter S. Goodman examining the already poor socio-economic circumstances of theContinue Reading
The UK Threatens The EU. And Then Claims The Beaches Of Donegal!
One gets the impression that Brexit Britain is like a wild animal caught in a steel trap, driven wild withContinue Reading
The Dog-Whistle Rhetoric Of Brexit Britain Is Obsessed With Leo Varadkar
One of the more noxious effects associated with the rise of Brexitism in the United Kingdom has been the returnContinue Reading
The British Labour MP Kate Hoey Is Still Fighting The Troubles
The motivations behind the majority pro-leave result in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum are complex, though there is aContinue Reading
The UK Offers Border Tracking Apps Instead Of A Border Poll To Ireland
One of the more caustic social media responses to the United Kingdom’s chaotic Brexit negotiations with the European Union hasContinue Reading
Rival Tory Factions Compete For Influence In Brexit Britain
If we are to believe the reports from the Irish and international press, it seems that Theresa May, the lacklustreContinue Reading
The DUP Deploys Alt-Right Rhetoric To Attack Dublin And Brussels
Earlier today, an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar used the latest session of the All-Island Civic Dialogue forum to strongly refute theContinue Reading
British Brexit Secretary David Davis Makes Speedy Secret Visit To The Border
If one were searching for a perfect metaphor to illustrate the impossibility of the United Kingdom reimposing any type ofContinue Reading
Brexit Facts: The Commonwealth Of Nations Versus The European Union
Given the argument that the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is primarily an anti-modernist one, driven by nostalgia forContinue Reading
The EU Rejects The UK’s Fantastical Brexit Border Plans
With the news that the European Union has comprehensively rejected the United Kingdom’s written proposals to deal with the anomalousContinue Reading
Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Author Of Her Own Brexit Misfortune
Speaking of right-wing politics, Britain’s leading apologist for its colonial misadventures in Ireland, the novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards, has takenContinue Reading
Lionel Shriver, The UFF Mug and British Terrorism In Ireland
The left-leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain seems to have a bit of a myopic soft spot for its former columnist,Continue Reading
Generation Identity United Kingdom And Ireland Is The British Alt-Right
In 2012, the French far-right party Bloc Identitaire – later renamed Les Identitaires – established a youth wing under theContinue Reading
The Daily Express Invents False Quote For Brexit Fake News
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
David Davis, Britain’s Brexit Minister, Makes False Claims About Ireland’s Border Concerns
Following on from a statement to a gathering of shocked MEPs in Brussels by a senior representative of the LabourContinue Reading
British Labour Party Shocks MEPs By Dismissing Danger Of Hard Border In Ireland
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
Peter Hitchens Argues Right-Wing Politics With James Delingpole
I have a great deal of time for political iconoclasts, those who challenge conventional tenets on the ideological Left orContinue Reading
UK Poll: British Voters Want Brexit More Than They Want The North Of Ireland
In light of a YouGov poll for LBC, a popular national radio station in the United Kingdom, indicating that aContinue Reading
AggregateIQ, The Brexit Mystery Behind The Vote Leave Campaign And The DUP
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
The Rhetoric Of Victimisation Powering Brexit, Trump And The DUP
One of the primary motivations behind the United Kingdom’s divisive Brexit referendum of 2016 was the widely shared sense ofContinue Reading
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