Reading Time: 3 minutes You know things are bad when acronyms are queuing up to give you bad news. In quick succession, we have had expert organizations warning of our imminent economic and cost-of-living woes. First, at the end of September, the ONS (the Office for National Statistics) announced that GDP grew only 0.2% in the three months to […]
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Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland. Could this be the end of the United Kingdom?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The writing has been on the wall since Brexit. The United Kingdom, made of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, is now counting its days. A further nail was driven into the coffin today as statistics from the 2021 census were released showing that, for the first time ever, Catholics now outnumber Protestants in Northern […]
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Heads I win, tails you lose: Attacking the EU with double standards
Reading Time: 3 minutes Every day, I listen to “Ukraine: The Latest,” a Daily Telegraph podcast about the conflict in Ukraine. If you’re not familiar, the Daily Telegraph is a UK right-wing broadsheet newspaper, and not in line with my personal political persuasion. However, generally, it is excellent, especially when analyzing the strategic and tactical situation in the war. […]
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Understanding the contradictions of the EU through the misunderstanding of Brexiteers
Reading Time: 5 minutes A lot of people don’t really understand the EU, which was always going to make a referendum on the UK’s membership, like Brexit, something of a problem. Opposition to the EU can come in broadly two different forms. First, you have the small-government advocates who are anti-immigration and pro-free market. This is generally the right-wing […]
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What’s Brexit ever done for us?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nothing. Brexit has done nothing for us. Well, news from the Office for National Statistics today is that it has cut our exports to the EU last year by £20 billion, while lorries (trucks) are still backed up on the motorways unable to cross into France (but it’s not Brexit’s fault, the government tell us!). […]
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Well, Brexit’s Going Really Well…
Reading Time: 6 minutes I recently wrote that everything I predicted, as a Remainer who publicly debated the EU referendum back in 2016, is coming true. But I just want to update some of my American friends on what is presently going on. Those right-wingers in the US – some of whom comment on this blog – supported leaving […]
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Turns out I Was Right about Brexit. A Lot.
Reading Time: 8 minutes “Project Fear, you Remoaner!” I’ve heard it for a number of years, since before the vote. And when Project Fear didn’t happen, Leavers got even more vocal. Of course, it didn’t happen because it took us this long to leave the EU – and it’s still ongoing. In fact, this was yet another lie from […]
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Political Bots Being Used to Sway Opinion
Reading Time: 2 minutes This has just been happening on Twitter (as it has for years): En masse spelling mistakes aside, this is insidious and horrible. Public opinion is being swayed by simulated/dishonest/untrue creations. This is disinformation. Quite how the government can, on the one hand, rightly spout off about disinformation concerning Covid, and on the other, insidiously spread […]
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Brexit: Can’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
Reading Time: 9 minutes Brexit seems something of the distant past, in a bygone era. It has been eclipsed by a global pandemic that has ostensibly let Bresiteers and Leavers completely off the hook. There were a number of things I clearly predicted that would come about. All of my predictions are coming true. Here are the main things […]
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When This Pandemic Is Over, Let’s Get Back to the Habit of Made in Britain!*
Reading Time: 7 minutes *Or whatever localised version of this you may see. These sorts of memes are popping up all over the place. To many of your friends or acquaintances on social media, these may seem intuitively sensible, and not racist and isolationist at all. But the people who created these memes almost certainly did have such tendencies. […]