Boris Johnson has been weakened by his privately recorded indiscretions

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In the age of mobile phones which can so quickly be turned into covert recorders, the very idea of Chatham House rules ( the convention that a speaker at an event may not be quoted for what is intended to be off-the-record discourse) is somewhat suspect at best and extremely dangerous at worst. So Boris […]

There is no appetite in Ireland for us to revert to a UK satellite

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The White House is becoming for all practical purposes the Washington bureau of the Netanyahu regime when it comes to Israeli and Middle-Eastern affairs. Trump, Pompeio and Bolton are a hawkish triumvirate pursuing the most uncritical Zionist agenda that the US has ever pursued. The crude choreography in which Netanyahu attempted to tell us that […]

Theresa May’s Brexit juggling act is beginning to look very shaky

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This week saw some important signs that Ireland’s future relationships with Britain and the EU are going to be very tricky. Leaked reports of the flat out rejection by EU negotiators of the British suggestions for a trading relationship that would allow free trade between the UK and the EU while at the same time […]