by The Editor | Dec 7, 2017 | Politics
I’m not quite sure why there is so much excitement about these ‘trade talks’. They can only be very limited in scope. My understanding is that the EU will only formalise any deal once the UK is a ‘third country’. Which means that nothing will be finalised until after...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Featured, Politics
What’s with all this talk of friendship between Britain and Ireland? No such friendship exists and nor has it ever existed. This is nothing but cold toleration and even that is getting close to ending. Late last month Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s foremost...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Featured, International
It is not as though the British government haven’t known of the potential problems for Ireland that Brexit causes, in the almost 18 months since the UK voted to leave the European Union (EU). This issue has been the subject of the same magical thinking though that has...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Politics
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our...
by The Editor | Dec 6, 2017 | Politics
Forget about Russian meddling or US companies pushing fake and ‘dark’ news on the internet to influence the Brexit vote. Fake news to influence the UK public to vote for Brexit has mostly come from our very own so-called professional journalists right here in the UK....