Explanations and Solutions
Matthew Thompson, the host of the podcast Best of Belfast, was our guest on today’s show. Best of Belfast see’s Matthew interview Northern Irish celebrities and people of note from within our wee country. It’s the first time that I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing a fellow podcaster from Northern Ireland so I was overflowing […]
What To Read To Understand This Mess In the process of writing my upcoming book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, I had to do my fair share of background reading. It seems every month there is another book on Brexit or the current state of British politics, so I thought I’d compile a list of […]
The scope of devolved institutions to set their own laws has been increasing steadily since the 90s. Tony Blair and New Labour helped establish the power-sharing government at Stormont and gave further powers to Holyrood. However, the Brexit process could bring disruption to this steady decentralisation of power within the UK. What Is Being Proposed? […]
BeLeave was founded by Darren Grimes, a then 23-year-old fashion student from County Durham, a Liberal Democrat member with a talent for graphic design and social media marketing. The BeLeave logo (not dissimilar to the Vote Leave logo) can be found on Vote Leave’s own website, where BeLeave is listed as an “outreach group”. According to Commission […]
Donald Trump consistently says that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia and that the Mueller investigation should not have been opened. So we took a close look at what Trump calls a ‘witch hunt’. Below, we’ve created an infographic of the Trump-Russia ‘witch hunt’ by the numbers. See below for the sourcing. Sources: The […]
The mysterious Constitutional Research Council (CRC) was confirmed in February to have donated £435,000 to the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party), of which they routed £425,000 into pro-Brexit ads in London. This spending included a £282,000 advert reading “Take Back Control – Vote To Leave” in the Metro and almost £100,000 worth of campaign merchandise. The donation was made through Northern […]
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