Backstop Deal Under Threat As Theresa May Accuses Europeans Of Jumping The Queue
With the ink barely dry on the draft withdrawal agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union, Sky News inContinue Reading
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Ireland’s British Apologists Become Brexit Sympathisers
One of the odder complaints emanating from those Irish writers and commentators who have devoted their professional careers to actingContinue Reading
Boris Johnson And The British Suddenly Decide That Being A “Colony” Is A Bad Thing
The image of senior politicians from the former heartland of the British Empire vociferously condemning the European Union for itsContinue Reading
Brexit Britain. An Island Of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Poppies?
The British writer Michael Burleigh, the author of several acclaimed histories of Nazi Germany and the rise of totalitarian regimes inContinue Reading
Senior British Official: “Ireland Is Fucked” In Proposed UK-EU Deal
The headline claim comes from a sparsely detailed and frequently contradictory exclusive by The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain, suggestingContinue Reading
How Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Rump Colony In Ireland
The Irish-born author and activist Richard Seymour, who hails from a unionist background in County Antrim, has written an excoriatingContinue Reading
British Army Blowing Up A Cross-Border Bridge. A Brexit Warning
From an avowedly partisan television news report broadcast to UK viewers in September 1975*, a video clip of soldiers andContinue Reading
Plans For Brexit Food And Medicine Flotilla Stuns British Ministers
By all accounts, yesterday’s meeting of the British cabinet to discuss the latest twists in the country’s stalled withdrawal negotiationsContinue Reading
Greater England And The Dream Of A Brexit Empire
I doubt that you will find a better summation of the delusions still gripping the Brexit movement in the UnitedContinue Reading
UK Labour’s John McDonnell: I’m A Republican. I Long For A United Ireland
Yesterday’s claim by John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer for the British Labour Party, that he longs for a reunitedContinue Reading
UK Cabinet: “Northern Ireland” Is Leverage In Brexit Negotiations With The EU
Leverage in Brexit talks with the European Union. That is is how senior officials in the government of the UnitedContinue Reading
Boris Johnson’s Father On A Hard Border: The Irish Shoot Each Other, That Is Something They Do
Stanley Johnson, the right-wing political commentator and father of Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s former Secretary of State for Foreign andContinue Reading
The DUP’s Brexit Plan? Harden The Border, Save The Union
The Irish-born journalist and author Walter Ellis is probably best known in this country for his 2006 autobiography, The BeginningContinue Reading
The DUP Threatens Political Chaos If Theresa May Crosses Its Blood Red Brexit Lines
It seems that the Democratic Unionist Party is sticking to its tooth-and-nail opposition to a compromise Brexit deal between theContinue Reading
DUP Boss Arlene Foster Issues “Blood Red” Warning To The UK Premier Theresa May
For people familiar with the coded language of British unionism in Ireland there is no denying the subliminal threat behindContinue Reading
DUP MP: “Build It As High As You Like, That Wall, That Border”
The British journalist and broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty on her popular LBC radio show in Britain responding to a caller’s claim thatContinue Reading
Will Theresa May Face Down Arlene Foster To Secure The EU-UK Backstop Deal?
Is the United Kingdom about to compromise on its hardline negotiations with the European Union over the issue of theContinue Reading
UK Ex-Minister David Davis Believes British Pounds Are Accepted Currency In Ireland
Further evidence, if evidence is required, that senior politicians in Britain haven’t a clue about Ireland. Even the bit ofContinue Reading
DUP Forced UK Prime Minister Theresa May To Drop Compromise Plan With EU
While it’s not exactly noted for its informed political reporting, there seems to be some substance behind the claim byContinue Reading
Video: Brexit, A Cry From The Irish Border
The Irish actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and theContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn Rejects An Irish Sea Border But Offers No Concrete Alternative
If the assessment of the press in Britain is correct, Theresa May seems to have brought her tottering government toContinue Reading
UK Premier Theresa May Adopts Hardline Brexit Rhetoric With EU Leaders
If the leaders of the European Union were expecting a more conciliatory tone from the United Kingdom at yesterday’s headsContinue Reading
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