Post-Election UK Returns To No-Deal Brexit Threats
Here we go again! From the New York Times: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the prospect of aContinue Reading
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That Tory Victory And Labour Defeat In The UK General Election
Many explanations have been offered for the humiliating defeat of the Labour Party in the UK general election but perhapsContinue Reading
British Legislation Threatens Imposition Of A Stop-And-Search Zone Along The UK Border In Ireland
So much for the repeated claims by Theresa May’s Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom that her nation remainsContinue Reading
The UK Threatens The EU. And Then Claims The Beaches Of Donegal!
One gets the impression that Brexit Britain is like a wild animal caught in a steel trap, driven wild withContinue Reading
Brexit Facts: The Commonwealth Of Nations Versus The European Union
Given the argument that the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is primarily an anti-modernist one, driven by nostalgia forContinue Reading
The EU Rejects The UK’s Fantastical Brexit Border Plans
With the news that the European Union has comprehensively rejected the United Kingdom’s written proposals to deal with the anomalousContinue Reading
UK Seeks Border Force For Ireland But No Irish Need Apply
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue Reading
The Daily Express Invents False Quote For Brexit Fake News
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
British Labour Party Shocks MEPs By Dismissing Danger Of Hard Border In Ireland
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
Peter Hitchens Argues Right-Wing Politics With James Delingpole
I have a great deal of time for political iconoclasts, those who challenge conventional tenets on the ideological Left orContinue Reading
AggregateIQ, The Brexit Mystery Behind The Vote Leave Campaign And The DUP
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
The Rhetoric Of Victimisation Powering Brexit, Trump And The DUP
One of the primary motivations behind the United Kingdom’s divisive Brexit referendum of 2016 was the widely shared sense ofContinue Reading
The UK Concedes To EU Demands On Terms For Brexit Transition Deal
Despite the much-hyped talk of red lines and fighting the supposed “annexation” of its legacy territory in the north-east ofContinue Reading
British MPs Claim Irish Citizens Will Be Stripped Of Their EU Rights In The North
Yesterday’s publication of an updated report by a parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom on the possible future shape ofContinue Reading
Fixing Brexit? Declare The North Of Ireland A Special Economic Zone
With the isolationist wing of the governing Conservative Party in Britain determined to take the country out of the EuropeanContinue Reading
Britain Prepares For Hard Border In Ireland, Rejecting Irish And European Pleas For Compromise
Facing the inevitable consequences of its inability – or unwillingness – to negotiate a fair Brexit deal with Brussels andContinue Reading
Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Count Of Cross-Border Roads Is Underway
If the United Kingdom is serious about not wanting to see the return of a “hard border” or militarised frontierContinue Reading
Theresa May Suggests US-Canada Style Border For Ireland Despite Armed Guards And Checkpoints
For the last two years the United Kingdom has insisted that there will be no new imposition of a formalContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Mansion House Brexit Speech, A Masterclass In Fantasy Politics
As predicted by her many critics, today’s much anticipated Brexit speech by Theresa May, the beleaguered prime minister of theContinue Reading
Boris Johnson Moves From Dismissing A Hard Border In Ireland To Threatening It
One has to wonder if Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s tone-deaf Foreign Secretary, realised what he was implying when heContinue Reading
The Brexit Fantasists Long For The UK’s Hegemony Over All Of Ireland
A perfect example of the delusional thinking gripping the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom can be found in thisContinue Reading
Europe Lays Down The Law To Britain Over Future Peace And Prosperity In Ireland
It seems that the patience of the European Union with the prevarications of the United Kingdom over the post-Brexit futureContinue Reading
