UK No-Deal Brexit: Zero Tariffs For Border Commerce, All Tariffs For Irish Sea Commerce
Political schizophrenia? Is there any other way to describe the condition gripping the United Kingdom following the announcement of itsContinue Reading
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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
Northern Ireland Is As British As Finchley? Not Even Remotely
When the United Kingdom formally partitioned Ireland in May 1921, six loyalist or secessionist counties in the north-east of the islandContinue Reading
Brexit Fruitloops: The American And French Edition
More spurious explanations and justifications for Brexit, this time from the American economist Michael Ivanovitch writing for CNBC in the UnitedContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Apologists Find A New Cause In Brexit
One of the few positives to emerge from the Brexit debacle in the United Kingdom over the last two yearsContinue 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
The UK Has “Ripped Up the Good Friday Agreement”
A dire assessment by Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons, on 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
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
Lesley Riddoch, Fintan O’Toole And Anthony Barnett On Brexit And England
An interesting discussion on Brexit chaired by the Scottish newspaper columnist Lesley Riddoch, featuring the Irish author Fintan O’Toole andContinue 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
300 Recruits, Riot Control Experts And 1000 British Police Officers For North Of Ireland
Back on December 19th when several newspapers in the United Kingdom reported that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)Continue Reading
TRT World: Ireland’s Brexit Trouble
The Turkish news channel, TRT World, has published a short documentary on YouTube presented by the South African-born journalist andContinue Reading
Former Tory Minister: The Irish Really Should Know Their Place
On the British reaction to the Irish insistence that Britain’s proposed Brexit withdrawal agreement with the European Union must includeContinue 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
No Man’s Land. News Footage From The UK’s Former Hard Border In Ireland
With a significant number of anti-agreement politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom continuing to dismiss the risk of aContinue Reading
Brexit Britain’s Leave And Remain Camps Are Equally Ignorant Of Ireland
Given that the political history of Ireland has been forcibly bound up with the history of England since the 12thContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Plays Orange Card In Bonkers Speech To Rapturous DUP Conference
The United Kingdom’s colony on the island of Ireland, from the historical Thirty-Two Counties to the contemporary Six Counties, has longContinue Reading
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