UK Drags Out Talks With EU While Demanding Access To EU Systems
An interesting report from Bloomberg News on the more strident tone that has been adopted by the United Kingdom inContinue Reading
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An interesting report from Bloomberg News on the more strident tone that has been adopted by the United Kingdom inContinue Reading
It says much for the political and cultural tone deafness of the current crop of leaders in the United KingdomContinue Reading
Appearing on the BBC’s daily Politics Live show Alan Mendoza, the Executive Director of the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society andContinue Reading
By all accounts the headline-making confession of cocaine use by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food andContinue Reading
The high-profile campaign by conservative politicians and media figures in the United States to absolve US military personnel of theirContinue Reading
Last week ended with press reports that Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was discussing plans withContinue Reading
By any measure the recently published “Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernContinue Reading
One of the pillars of international law is the understanding that a treaty between two or more sovereign nation-states isContinue Reading
If we are to believe the reports from the Irish and international press, it seems that Theresa May, the lacklustreContinue Reading
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
Many commentators are expressing surprise and dismay that a number of Brexit-supporting politicians and journalists in the United Kingdom areContinue Reading
It’s difficult to escape the conclusion that whatever agreements are made between now and the 29th of March 2019, theContinue Reading
The decision by the minority Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom to limit public scrutiny of the Democratic UnionistContinue Reading
Following several months of torturous negotiations, in the early hours of Monday the 4th of December, the government of theContinue Reading
Less than twenty-four hours after the United Kingdom issued a joint-report with the European Union on its planned exit fromContinue Reading
Among the many things linking the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom and the far-right Democratic Unionist Party in theContinue Reading
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
In the year 2000, responding to the all-party intergovernmental Belfast Agreement of 1998, the peace deal which effectively ended three decades of conflictContinue Reading