The DUP And Tories Demand An Amnesty For The British Army Death Squads
The Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert British Army unit which operated in the greater Belfast area duringContinue Reading
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The Military Reaction Force or MRF was a covert British Army unit which operated in the greater Belfast area duringContinue Reading
Around 5.00pm on Monday the 23rd of October 1972, thirty-one-year-old Michael Naan drove into his isolated farm in the townlandContinue Reading
Speaking of right-wing politics, Britain’s leading apologist for its colonial misadventures in Ireland, the novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards, has takenContinue Reading
Cambridge Analytica, the secretive British data-harvesting company linked to 2016’s twin shocks of the Brexit vote in the United KingdomContinue Reading
In light of the number of Brexit-supporting politicians and journalists in Britain now expressing open hostility towards the Good FridayContinue Reading
In September 2016, the United Kingdom’s local non-partisan Boundary Commission released its preliminary proposals for the creation of seventeen newContinue Reading
So another British Secretary of State has returned to the United Kingdom for the final time after a short reignContinue Reading
The decision by the minority Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom to limit public scrutiny of the Democratic UnionistContinue Reading
Less than twenty-four hours after the United Kingdom issued a joint-report with the European Union on its planned exit fromContinue Reading
The political humiliation of Theresa May, the inept prime minister of the United Kingdom, continues, with the news this morningContinue Reading
Early on Monday morning it seemed as if several months of torturous negotiations between Dublin, Brussels and London had paidContinue Reading
There’s a plausible report by Dara Doyle on the business and current affairs website, Bloomberg, claiming that the Fine Gael-led governmentContinue Reading
The finance minister of the United Kingdom, Philip Hammond, is regarded by most commentators as one of the less enthusiasticContinue Reading
When Theresa May made her speech this morning at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, very few people indeed couldContinue Reading
On the 5th of June 2017, just four days before the general election in the United Kingdom, a group known asContinue Reading
It seems that the Democratic Unionist Party has successfully completed its hijacking of the United Kingdom’s foreign relations. Or atContinue Reading
Since the Brexit referendum vote in the summer of 2016 the conservative and right-wing press in the United Kingdom hasContinue Reading
Despite vociferous denials and protests to the contrary, by both politicians and journalists, since the general election of 2011 theContinue Reading
With the press and news media focusing on the Russian Federation’s alleged contribution to the election of Donald Trump toContinue Reading
Search for the word “reactionary” on Google and the search engine gives you a rather handy definition: “Opposing political orContinue Reading
Among the many things linking the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom and the far-right Democratic Unionist Party in theContinue Reading
Michael Fallon, the accident-prone secretary of state for defence in the United Kingdom, has produced a decidedly odd explanation forContinue Reading