If The UK Reneges On The Backstop Agreement, Can It Be Trusted On Any Brexit Deal?
Simon Coveney, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, has warned his counterparts in the United Kingdom that they must abideContinue Reading
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The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
The 2017 documentary by the filmmaker Michael Oswald and the economist John Christensen examining the United Kingdom’s transformation into a global financialContinue Reading
DUP MP: “Build It As High As You Like, That Wall, That Border”
The British journalist and broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty on her popular LBC radio show in Britain responding to a caller’s claim thatContinue Reading
UK Ex-Minister David Davis Believes British Pounds Are Accepted Currency In Ireland
Further evidence, if evidence is required, that senior politicians in Britain haven’t a clue about Ireland. Even the bit ofContinue Reading
Theresa May’s Bizarre Plan For A Festival Of Brexit Britain
One might have some sympathy for Boris Johnson’s dismissal of Theresa May’s Brexit plans as “deranged” if his own suggestionsContinue Reading
Brexit Paranoia: UK Ministers Promote Conspiracy Theories And Fake News
With the Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom unwilling – or unable – to reach a reasonable withdrawal agreementContinue Reading
Brexit Turmoil In Britain. Will Theresa May Call A Snap General Election?
Will she or won’t she? That is the question concerning Theresa May and the possibility of a snap general electionContinue Reading
DUP Forced UK Prime Minister Theresa May To Drop Compromise Plan With EU
While it’s not exactly noted for its informed political reporting, there seems to be some substance behind the claim byContinue Reading
Video: Brexit, A Cry From The Irish Border
The Irish actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union and theContinue 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
UK Premier Theresa May Adopts Hardline Brexit Rhetoric With EU Leaders
If the leaders of the European Union were expecting a more conciliatory tone from the United Kingdom at yesterday’s headsContinue Reading
Michael Gove Talks Of Tearing Up EU Treaties, Boris Johnson Talks Of EU Vassal States
One of the pillars of international law is the understanding that a treaty between two or more sovereign nation-states isContinue Reading
Brexit Britain’s “Quiet Retreat” From The Good Friday Agreement Peace Process
The BrexitLawNI group – a joint-research project between Queen’s University Belfast, the Ulster University and the Committee on the Administration ofContinue Reading
UK Minister Bradley: I Didn’t Understand That Nationalists Don’t Vote For Unionists
Among the ministerial offices of the United Kingdom, the position of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is generally viewedContinue Reading
Theresa May And The UK’s Brexit Scramble For Africa
Dismissing predictions of economic catastrophe if the United Kingdom fails to reach a substantive withdrawal agreement with the European Union,Continue Reading
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: We Can Reimpose A Border “Just Like During The Troubles”
Brexit fanaticism in full effect as the Conservative Party politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the main leaders of the anti-European campaignContinue Reading
A Hard Brexit UK Will Abandon Responsibility For Cross-Border Trade In Ireland
I suspect that most readers will be less than surprised by yesterday’s news that the inept Conservative Party government inContinue Reading
Three Blokes In The Pub Talk A No Deal Brexit
Turning from the ridiculous to the sensible, a rather enjoyable view from the United Kingdom on Brexit and the resultantContinue Reading
Ruth Dudley Edwards On Leo Varadkar’s “Outsider” Parentage And Sexuality
During the two terms of Barack Obama’s presidency in the United States of America, conservative journalists and politicians in theContinue Reading
Mary Lou McDonald And Sinn Féin’s Approach To A Reunited Ireland
So what are we to make of Monday’s Associated Press interview with the Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, whereContinue Reading
Peter Robinson, A Reunited Ireland, And Unionism’s Narrowing Options
Last week’s speech by Peter Robinson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party or DUP (and for many years,Continue Reading
Amazon Boss Fears Civil Unrest In A Hard Brexit Britain. British Minister Blames The Europeans
Well, this is an interesting report. From The Independent newspaper in London, a prediction of possible “hard Brexit” troubles in the United KingdomContinue Reading
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