Summing up Brexit

Summing up Brexit

If we’re being scrupulously honest, very few of us would have considered where we are now in the Brexit process to be the pink of perfection.  We aren’t, to put it mildly enough for some of my more sensitive Twitter followers, exactly cock-a-hoop with...
Brexit – a reflection on an unhappy marriage

Brexit – a reflection on an unhappy marriage

TL;DR:  Brexit is a good thing; we should be throwing a fucking party. The price of freedom is to want for nothing more. We should be ready to walk away from a bad deal. Click To Tweet Hurting Ireland in a no-deal Brexit would be unfortunate, but the UK must follow...

UKIP if you want to…

“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to the problem of the purple and yellow party (by remarkable coincidence...

Irish Sovereignty: A brief treatise.

The striking thing about the Irish Sovereignty arguments re: the bailout is how non-sovereign and dependent Ireland has been since the beginning of the twentieth century. First, between 1900 and 3 May 1921, Ireland was under British administration; clearly not...