Brexit Divisions In UK Local Elections Boost The Greens And Lib Dems
Local government and mayoral elections in much of England has yielded a series of mixed outcomes for pro- and anti-BrexitContinue Reading
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Britain’s Theresa May: Isolated, Frustrated, Scornful
It’s not often in Western Europe that one gets to watch a head of government staging a live television broadcastContinue Reading
The Labour MPs Of The Independent Group. More Tory Than The Tories Themselves?
When it comes to politics, I’m pretty much your typical centre-left, social-democratic, wishy-washy, and occasionally hypocritical, bleeding heart liberal. IContinue Reading
The Mysterious Institute For Statecraft, The Integrity Initiative, And British Black Ops
Two weeks ago the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland published details of an investigation into the activities of the InstituteContinue 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
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
Jeremy Corbyn Visits Belfast, The British Press Revives The Troubles
The hysterical reaction by a significant section of the news media in the United Kingdom to the forthcoming visit byContinue Reading
Kate Hoey: The Irish “Will Have To Pay” For A Brexit Border In Ireland
If anything encapsulates the political insanity gripping the United Kingdom, surely it must be the sight of the reactionary LabourContinue Reading
Antifa And Left-Wing Struggle
One of the lesser reported aspects of the Irish Republican Army’s former military campaign in the United Kingdom is the low-levelContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn: I Fully Understand The Many, Many Aspects Of Irish History
And the people of Ireland wish we could say the same of Theresa May and her wretched fundamentalist-appeasing Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Tory-DUP Deal In London Makes Fianna Fáil-Sinn Féin Coalition More Likely In Dublin
Irish and British political commentators are already warning of unintended consequences stemming from the backdoor-coalition deal between the Conservative PartyContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn’s Problem: The Irish Have Terrorists But The British Have Paramilitaries
There is an old joke from the UK-administered north-east of Ireland, one that has a great deal of truth behind it. DuringContinue Reading
Thirty Years Of Secret Talks And Negotiations Between Britain And The IRA
With the United Kingdom’s right-wing press whipping itself up into a frenzy over the alleged sympathy of Labour Party leaderContinue Reading
The 2017 Local Election Results In The UK, A Victory For UKIP By Any Other Name
Just a few quick points on last week’s local elections in the United Kingdom and the continuing post-referendum shift inContinue Reading
Brexit, The Disconnect Between London And Greater England
In the lead up to June’s Brexit referendum, the plebiscite on Britain’s membership of the European Union, there were several things which made me question justContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn’s Vice News Documentary
The left-wing British politician, Jeremy Corbyn, recently gave Vice News behind the scenes access to his embattled leadership of the UK LabourContinue Reading
Britain Goes All 1970s With Threats Of Mutinies, Coups And Rebellions
Well it didn’t take long for John McDonnell, the finance spokesperson for the UK Labour Party, to walk back from hisContinue Reading
On The Anti-Colonial Struggle In Ireland Corbyn And McDonnell Are Right
The unexpected election of a progressive candidate to the leadership of the UK Labour Party, along with several like-minded colleagues, has sentContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn, From Sinn Féin To The ANC
Kevin Meagher’s article in the left-leaning New Statesman on the anti-establishment contender for the leadership of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
#LabourPurge Or The Anyone But Corbyn Campaign
Given the willingness of Andy Burnham, one of several über-ambitious pols contesting the leadership of the British Labour Party, to destabilise the finely balanced peace in theContinue Reading
Contender For Leadership Of British Labour Plays The Orange Card
For the last four decades the Irish and British Labour parties have declined to formally or fully establish local branches or stand candidates for electionContinue Reading
Jeremy Corbyn And The Self-Deluding British Press
Watching the right-wing and nationalist press in the UK gnashing its teeth at the thoughts of left-wing MP, Jeremy Corbyn,Continue Reading
