It is a fever dream. There is zero chance of Ireland leaving the EU in order to join a Sterling Area, regardless that you can find a couple of cranks on favour of it. Most Irish are still proud of ha… (View Post)
This is unduly cynical and complacent. Mainly I would argue that the intensity of the conflict in Ukraine is not low. A lot of people are dying every day. The continuation of the ear is bad for Weste… (View Post)
That the referendum was held at all in the way that it was held was a sign of how weak the pro-European position had become over the course of the preceding couple of decades. It was the failure of t… (View Post)
Show me a social movement and I'll show you a set of myths about the past. It was true in the English Civil War and it's as true now as then. The problem pro-Europeans have is that they stopped telli… (View Post)
As an aside, I think this is one of the corrosive effects of Trump on politics. It's made anti-Trumpists have really low standards. Simply not being Trump is good enough for them when there is plenty… (View Post)