Posted By: March 20, 2021
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he disagreed with the former Secretary of State Peter Brooke’s statement in 1990, that “Britain has no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland.” Patrick Murphy. Irish News. Belfast. Saturday, March 20, 2021 There are few things in life more embarrassing than finding yourself on the same […]
Posted By: March 20, 2021
President Joe Biden’s administration has stuck to peace process platitudes on the Good Friday Agreement and explained it cannot take sides on the protocol because both sides, the EU and UK, have agreed to it. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik). Newton Emerson. Irish News. Saturday, March 20, 2021 Unionists have badly over-reacted to Joe […]
Posted By: March 19, 2021
Constructive voices within Northern Ireland’s Protestant community being shut out Susan McKay. Irish Times. Dublin. Friday, March 5, 2021 As the Proud Boys are to Trump, so the loyalist paramilitaries are to the Democratic Unionist Party. They are what you are left with when democracy lets you down. “We will fight guerrilla warfare […]
Posted By: March 18, 2021
Leaked minutes of the DUP South Antrim constituency association revealed complaints about off-piste remarks by Sammy Wilson. Newton Emerson. Irish News. Belfast. Thursday, March 18, 2021 The minutes of a DUP meeting have been leaked to the News Letter, revealing a party that knows how much trouble it is in over Brexit […]
Posted By: March 18, 2021
Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side. Priyamvada Gopal. The Guardian. London. Wednesday, March 17, 2021 A baleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston Churchill “single-handedly” […]