Author: Frank Schnittger

As the Catalonia referendum crisis reaches it’s apotheosis the Irish Government has proposed to hold no fewer than seven referendums in the next couple of years which has even friendly commentators questioning their...

Nobody had really expected Brexit to have quite the consequences it eventually had. For some it was simply an expression of a latent English nationalism that had been triumphant in the Second World War, and which had been...

Newton Emerson asks us to remember the Third Tribe of Ulster – one that is largely of Scottish descent, Presbyterian beliefs, and prone to dreaming of an Independent Ulster rather than one tied to either England or...

At last the British Labour party has decided to do what oppositions are supposed to do and put clear blue water between its policy on Brexit and that of the Tories: Labour is committing itself to continued UK membership of the...

The UK’s Brexit secretary David Davis Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Leo Varadker’s pre-emptive shot across the bows appears to have had the desired effect of scaring the British off any notions of re-imposing...