The UK’s New Tactic With The EU: Threats Of Loyalist Violence
As I have noted several times before, when it comes to loyalist violence in the north of Ireland, while BritishContinue Reading
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The DUP And Those Dubious Claims Of Irish Sea Border Violence
Threats? What threats? That is the question on a lot of minds as scepticism continues to grow about recent claimsContinue Reading
A New Year, A New EU As The UK Exits Stage Right
And so it ended, the United Kingdom’s decades-old membership of what is now the European Union, not with a bangContinue Reading
UK Leader Boris Johnson Heads For No Deal Cliff But Will He Jump?
Tick-tock goes the Brexit clock. Or more accurately the Trexit clock since Britain has already exited the European Union andContinue Reading
The Irish Sea Border, Brought To You By The DUP
It’s somewhat ironic that one of the worst newspapers in the country, the editorially repugnant News Letter, is also homeContinue Reading
UK Drags Out Talks With EU While Demanding Access To EU Systems
An interesting report from Bloomberg News on the more strident tone that has been adopted by the United Kingdom inContinue Reading
The Day Brexit Britain Leaves The EU
There is a short scene in the acclaimed British political satire The Thick Of It where the lead character ofContinue Reading
The UK Concedes A Backstop For An All Stop
So after two years of contentious negotiations abroad and political chaos at home, London has returned to the original “NorthernContinue Reading
The Emma DeSouza Case: The UK Has Effectively Broken The Good Friday Agreement
A tribunal in Belfast has ruled that the residents of the Six Counties are British subjects, and British subjects alone,Continue Reading
Brexit Hooligans: UK Issues Threats Against Its EU Neighbours
Following on from claims by anonymous sources in the UK government that Britain would seek to sabotage the workings ofContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Brexit Plan: Fake, Fatuous And Futile
A “scam”. That was the description offered during the week by Jonathan Powell, the former United Kingdom chief negotiator atContinue Reading
Operation Yellowhammer Dossier: UK Hard Border In Ireland Inevitable
The leaking of a confidential British government report to The Sunday Times in London has added new weight to theContinue Reading
Alan Mendoza And The Henry Jackson Society: Bribe Or Threaten The Irish
Appearing on the BBC’s daily Politics Live show Alan Mendoza, the Executive Director of the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society andContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Considering Northern Referendum On Backstop Protocol
Several weeks ago the former Conservative Party politician Michael Portillo observed on a BBC current affairs show that there wereContinue Reading
UK Minister Sajid Javid Complains: “Ireland Is The Tail That Wags The Dog”
Judging by the opinions expressed over the weekend by the main contenders for the leadership of the Conservative Party inContinue Reading
The ASF Vote In The European And Local Elections 2019
Since it has become a sort of confessional political tradition for An Sionnach Fionn, here is how I voted inContinue Reading
SBS Dateline: Is Brexit Amplifying Old Tensions In Northern Ireland?
The destabilising effects of Brexit on the Irish-British peace process is the focus of this documentary by Dateline, a currentContinue Reading
Four Brexit Votes: UK Parliament Says No To Everything, Yes To Nothing
Following another night of parliamentary chaos in London I’m reminded of the (apocryphal) demand by King Henry II of England,Continue Reading
UK Minister On Theresa May’s Brexit Plans: “Fuck Knows. I’m Past Caring. It’s Like The Living Dead In Here”
Nicholas Watt of the BBC’s Newsnight current affairs show explaining the response of a senior Cabinet minister in Theresa May’sContinue Reading
Will The UK Revoke The Backstop Protocol By Abusing The Vienna Convention?
According to press reports, the dysfunctional Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom is trying to gain parliamentary support forContinue Reading
UK’s Theresa May Claims “Legally Binding Changes” To Unchanged Backstop
The United Kingdom’s inevitable climb down over its objections to the Backstop Protocol in the Draft Withdrawal Agreement with theContinue 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
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