When even Jubilee edibles can’t be delivered, the integrity of the UK single market is clearly being undermined Published: 30 May 2022 hat is this Northern Ireland Protocol row all about?” is a question that causes despair to those of us who are supposed to have...
I have more sense than to try to predict what will happen in Thursday’s election, but I do know what I want to happen. Published: 3 May 2022 First and foremost, I want the bad guys to lose. These, of course, are Sinn Fein, that cancer corrupting Ireland, and any other...
I’ve only been a declared unionist for a very short while and already I’m a Lundy. Published: 12 April 2022 Most recently this accusation has been levelled at me over a tweet I wrote the other day in response to the defaced poster of Doug Beattie showing him with a...
I‘ve recently been reading too much about the UK-EU Brexit negotiations past, present and to come, and am delighted that at last some substantial work is being produced that answers some questions that have been bothering me for a long time. Published: 23 November...
Nuclear option” is the new favourite buzz phrase used by many a commentator on the turgid Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations – particularly those cheering for the EU’s Maros Sefcovic, presently slugging it out with Lord Frost. If the UK government suspends Article...
At home and abroad, their ignorant dislike for Brexit means they can only ever blindly take Brussels’ side Published: 14 October 2021 The injunction never to play chess with a pigeon is always applicable here,” wrote Kathy Sheridan, a long-standing columnist for...
The President’s utterly superficial take on Irish politics is causing fear and dismay in Unionist circles Published: 7 September 2021 The ignorance and arrogance shown by President Biden in his mishandling of the Afghan withdrawal are evident once again in his...
As polls show many voters rejecting tribalism, the two main Unionist parties are likely to be devising a joint strategy Published: 19 June 2021 It’s easy to laugh at Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party: its followers are almost all Christian and socially...
The President flaunts his Irish descent, but is blind to the truth about the EU’s imperialistic Protocol Published: 10 June 2019 Joe Biden is a classic of the type: a man of tenuous Irish descent who loudly declaims his Irishness yet clearly has little experience or...
With goodwill, there is a solution that avoids a hard border either on land or in the sea Published: 5 June 2021 The briefing war between the EU and the UK led to headlines this week saying that Brexit Minister Lord Frost thinks the Northern Ireland Protocol is...
