Northern Ireland: A Two Counties’ State
A new report from the Ulster University called Sectarianism in Northern Ireland: A Review has confirmed the widely shared analysisContinue Reading
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Brexit: Behind Closed Doors. How The DUP And The Brexiteers Took Europe Hostage
The second part of the BBC documentary Brexit: Behind Closed Doors might as well be called “How Arlene Foster BlewContinue Reading
Nigel Farage, The Brexit Party, UKIP, The ERG And The Greater England Movement
As the car crash efforts by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union are upgraded to the status ofContinue 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
Ireland, The British Commonwealth, Neutrality And NATO
Newton Emerson is one of those political commentators you never know whether to take seriously or not. There are daysContinue Reading
Majority Of UK Voters Want Rid Or Don’t Care About “Northern Ireland”
A majority of voters in the United Kingdom, some 55%, would prefer if “Northern Ireland” joined a reunited Ireland ratherContinue Reading
Whatever Happens, The DUP And Brexit Has Made A Reunited Ireland Inevitable
It’s been a remarkable seventy-two hours for the Democratic Unionist Party. Its leaders have gone from being fêted as theContinue Reading
The Daily Beast Gets It Wrong On Ireland And The UK Brexit
Nico Hines, the London editor of The Daily Beast, has co-written a rather misleading article on the question of theContinue Reading
For The DUP A Hard Border Is The Very Definition Of Brexit
The lecturer Paul Burgess has written a blunt opinion piece for RTÉ castigating the Irish government for its handing ofContinue Reading
The UK Offers Power Over Brexit And The Backstop Protocol To The DUP
So it seems that the perennial wrecker of Irish and British politics, the Democratic Unionist Party, is being asked toContinue 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
The Irish And British News Media, And The Bloody Sunday Massacre
The Irish press is giving ample coverage to the disappointing decision by the authorities in the United Kingdom to prosecuteContinue Reading
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
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
UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox’s Spurious Backstop Human Rights Claim
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016 government ministers and officials in the United Kingdom have worked towards a withdrawal dealContinue Reading
UK Minister Karen Bradley: Irish Killings By British Forces Were “Not Crimes”
With the political and press establishment in the United Kingdom racketing up its protests against any attempt by the regionalContinue Reading
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
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
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
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
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