Border Poll: The No-Deal Brexit Plan Fintan O’Toole’s Westminster Suggestion Ignores
Although this article is dismissive of Fintan O’Toole’s suggested plan for defeating a no-deal Brexit, outlined in last week’s IrishContinue Reading
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Although this article is dismissive of Fintan O’Toole’s suggested plan for defeating a no-deal Brexit, outlined in last week’s IrishContinue Reading
According to a terse official statement issued yesterday by the government in London, during a series of meetings in BelfastContinue Reading
As a “small u” unionist, from a Protestant background, I was more than content with the situation in Northern IrelandContinue Reading
Boris Johnson, the freshly installed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has announced that Julian Smith is to become hisContinue Reading
So that’s it. After much debate and acrimony Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been elected as the leader ofContinue Reading
The very public warning by Simon Hoare, the senior Conservative Party MP and Chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs SelectContinue Reading
By all accounts the headline-making confession of cocaine use by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food andContinue Reading
The high-profile campaign by conservative politicians and media figures in the United States to absolve US military personnel of theirContinue Reading
As voters in the north-east of the country go to the polls to elect three MEPs to the European Parliament,Continue Reading
The second part of the BBC documentary Brexit: Behind Closed Doors might as well be called “How Arlene Foster BlewContinue Reading
Following nearly three days of counting the results of UK-administered local government elections in the north-east of the country areContinue Reading
The sacking of Gavin Williamson, the British Secretary of State for Defence, has robbed the Democratic Unionist Party of oneContinue Reading
So it seems that the hard-right Democratic Unionist Party is back in the news again. Not for trying to holdContinue Reading
Such is the pace of the Brexit beast as it charges towards the no-deal cliffs, by the time I publishContinue Reading
Following another night of parliamentary chaos in London I’m reminded of the (apocryphal) demand by King Henry II of England,Continue Reading
It’s been a remarkable seventy-two hours for the Democratic Unionist Party. Its leaders have gone from being fêted as theContinue Reading
The lecturer Paul Burgess has written a blunt opinion piece for RTÉ castigating the Irish government for its handing ofContinue Reading
So it seems that the perennial wrecker of Irish and British politics, the Democratic Unionist Party, is being asked toContinue Reading
According to press reports, the dysfunctional Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom is trying to gain parliamentary support forContinue Reading
The United Kingdom’s inevitable climb down over its objections to the Backstop Protocol in the Draft Withdrawal Agreement with theContinue Reading
Despite some British press claims to the contrary there seems to be precious little evidence that the so-called European ResearchContinue Reading
A dire assessment by Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons, on theContinue Reading