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
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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 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
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
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
Dutch Warning: UK Insistence On No Backstop Could Bring Back The Troubles
In the video clip below, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, expresses his frustration with the United Kingdom’sContinue Reading
BBC Broadcaster John Humphrys: Ireland Should Join With The UK Outside The EU
The British journalist John Humphrys has a reputation for occasionally allowing his right-wing instincts to filter into his broadcasting butContinue 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
UK Brexiteer James Delingpole Cannot Answer Questions On No-Deal Brexit
If the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is the Patient Zero of ethnocentric populism in the English-speaking world, withContinue Reading
Theresa May To Achieve Brexit By Rewriting The Good Friday Agreement?
Last week ended with press reports that Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was discussing plans withContinue Reading
Jacob Rees-Mogg Flounders In An Interview With James O’Brien On LBC
The British radio presenter James O’Brien tackles the hardline Conservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg on his LBC show in a rareContinue Reading
David Davis: Opposing The Imposition Of The Backstop While Supporting The Imposition Of Brexit
David Davis, Britain’s former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and a leading hardline supporter of Brexit, speaking toContinue Reading
The Brexit Empire And The Reuters’ Columnist John Lloyd
In a recent article for the press agency Reuters, the British commentator John Lloyd has poured scorn on the widelyContinue Reading
The Bloody Language Of Brexit
Some interesting thoughts from the newspaper columnist Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times on the radical Brexit movement in theContinue Reading
UK Minister: New Overseas Bases Will Make Britain A Global Military Player
When civil servants in the United Kingdom first started referring to the country’s post-Brexit economic strategy as the “Empire 2.0”Continue Reading
Tory MP Priti Patel: UK Should Use Threat Of Food Shortages To Pressure Ireland
Priti Patel, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for International Development, has urged London to use the threat ofContinue Reading
Brexit Brits Couldn’t Organise A Piss-up In A Brewery
Watching from afar, one is left with the impression that the ongoing Brexit debate in London has taken on someContinue Reading
Tony Parsons And Brexit’s No Surrender Paranoia
Yet another example of the deranged thinking, the paranoia and suspicion, the chauvinism and supremacism, fuelling the war-obsessed Brexit movementContinue Reading
A No-Deal Brexit For Britain: Chaos, Recession And Armed Border Police
The Brexit debacle in the United Kingdom continues apace, with Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, admitting on WednesdayContinue Reading
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