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
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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
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
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
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
Leo Varadkar: Wealthier Counties Should Keep Their Own Local Property Taxes
Does Leo Varadkar not understand the basis of the country’s general taxation system? Of how progressive taxation and fiscal redistributionContinue 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
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
Sinn Féin’s Westminster MPs Should Take Up Their Seats. In Dáil Éireann
The likelihood that the withdrawal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom will be defeated by a majorityContinue 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
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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