Author: Frank Schnittger

Brexit in Northern Ireland

Letter to the Editor, Irish Times. A Chara, Newton Emerson’s article on Leo Varadker having a “tin ear” on N. Ireland is notable chiefly for the for the quality of the comments beneath it in your on-line...

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The Silly Season

August is traditionally termed “the silly season” in the northern hemisphere anglophone media because that is the time when governments, legislatures, and their associated media handlers are on holidays, and...

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Chequers is a red herring

In all the hullabaloo about the EU’s rejection of the Chequers proposals, one little detail has been forgotten: The Chequers proposals were never going to be part of the Brexit agreement in the first place. If agreed, they...

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The Guardian puts the boot in

The Guardian has been excoriating Theresa May for her Salzburg performance: Macron puts the boot in after May’s Brexit breakfast blunder:The spin from Downing Street had been that Theresa May’s meeting with her Irish...

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