I appreciated this tweet: Keir Starmer’s aggressive British nationalism means he’s pledged to breach the Good Friday Agreement. British people may not have noticed. But
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I noted an excellent speech made by Irish President Michael Higgins late last week. Given at the 20th anniversary of the Irish think tank TASC,
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Sunak has, as everyone expected, got a deal on Northern Ireland. Let me not be churlish. It is a better deal than I expected. He
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Rishi Sunak will hope he gets a deal on Northern Ireland today. So do I. Most especially for the people of Northern Ireland. It is
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This Tweet was put out by the Peston programme on ITV on Wednesday based on polling Queen’s University Belfast had done: https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1628520534089646092?s=20 That is a
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Issues relating to Ireland have been troublesome for British politics for centuries. Since 1802, when the Irish parliament was subsumed into that in Westminster, the
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I recorded this with the guys from The Echo Chamber podcast, based in Ireland, on Monday: I’d suggest it’s worth a listen, but I am
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The King begins a tour of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland today, accompanied by Liz Truss, whatever the reason given by Number 10 for her
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I wrote yesterday that I suspect Johnson will be culling the ranks of Tory MPs by withdrawing the whip from opponents over the coming weeks.
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