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
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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 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
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
UK Seeks Border Force For Ireland But No Irish Need Apply
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue 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
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
The UK Concedes To EU Demands On Terms For Brexit Transition Deal
Despite the much-hyped talk of red lines and fighting the supposed “annexation” of its legacy territory in the north-east ofContinue Reading
British MPs Claim Irish Citizens Will Be Stripped Of Their EU Rights In The North
Yesterday’s publication of an updated report by a parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom on the possible future shape ofContinue Reading
Fixing Brexit? Declare The North Of Ireland A Special Economic Zone
With the isolationist wing of the governing Conservative Party in Britain determined to take the country out of the EuropeanContinue Reading
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Count Of Cross-Border Roads Is Underway
If the United Kingdom is serious about not wanting to see the return of a “hard border” or militarised frontierContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Mansion House Brexit Speech, A Masterclass In Fantasy Politics
As predicted by her many critics, today’s much anticipated Brexit speech by Theresa May, the beleaguered prime minister of theContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Moves From Dismissing A Hard Border In Ireland To Threatening It
One has to wonder if Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s tone-deaf Foreign Secretary, realised what he was implying when heContinue Reading
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