Boris Johnson: New Conservative Party Leader, Next UK Prime Minister
So that’s it. After much debate and acrimony Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been elected as the leader ofContinue 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
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
The DUP Loses Staunch Ally With The Firing Of Gavin Williamson
The sacking of Gavin Williamson, the British Secretary of State for Defence, has robbed the Democratic Unionist Party of oneContinue 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
UK Minister On Theresa May’s Brexit Plans: “Fuck Knows. I’m Past Caring. It’s Like The Living Dead In Here”
Nicholas Watt of the BBC’s Newsnight current affairs show explaining the response of a senior Cabinet minister in Theresa May’sContinue Reading
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
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
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
An Article 50 Extension Could Bolster The UK’s Brexit Stubbornness
As speculation about the United Kingdom requesting an extension of its Article 50 withdrawal period from the European Union continuesContinue Reading
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
Theresa May To Achieve Brexit By Rewriting The Good Friday Agreement?
Last week ended with press reports that Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was discussing plans withContinue 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
Tony Parsons And Brexit’s No Surrender Paranoia
Yet another example of the deranged thinking, the paranoia and suspicion, the chauvinism and supremacism, fuelling the war-obsessed Brexit movementContinue 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
Boris Johnson And The British Suddenly Decide That Being A “Colony” Is A Bad Thing
The image of senior politicians from the former heartland of the British Empire vociferously condemning the European Union for itsContinue Reading
The EU’s Michel Barnier: No Accord, No Transition For UK Without The Backstop
Rumour, speculation, leaks and unattributed briefings seems to be the order of the day, as the Irish and British mediaContinue Reading
How Brexit Is Killing Britain’s Rump Colony In Ireland
The Irish-born author and activist Richard Seymour, who hails from a unionist background in County Antrim, has written an excoriatingContinue Reading
Plans For Brexit Food And Medicine Flotilla Stuns British Ministers
By all accounts, yesterday’s meeting of the British cabinet to discuss the latest twists in the country’s stalled withdrawal negotiationsContinue Reading
UK Cabinet: “Northern Ireland” Is Leverage In Brexit Negotiations With The EU
Leverage in Brexit talks with the European Union. That is is how senior officials in the government of the UnitedContinue Reading
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