The Shadow of Brexit and the new re-entry debate The prospect of a future referendum on the United Kingdom rejoining the European Union inevitably brings back the ghosts of 2016. A decade after that fateful vote,…
That's the confederal replacement for the UK I've been setting out this week, with Ireland entering as a founding equal. People treat flags as the decoration on a constitutional proposal. They're not. They're the thing …
A Union of the Isles. England, Scotland, Wales and (the whole island of) Ireland, entering as four founding equals. The UK dissolves on day 1, because nobody is joining anybody else's country. Now bring me your objectio…
I'd rather we admitted that calmly and built something better, than discovered it in the wreckage of an acrimonious break-up. Look at the last 72 hours. Saturday, Dublin. Donald Trump, beside the Taoiseach: "I'd love to …