The Brexit agreement’s Northern Ireland protocol is an unhappy compromise. It attempts, at one and the same time, to embody the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union as well as its treaty obligation to uphold the Northern Ireland peace process. It guarantees the soft Irish land border that was devised to end the Troubles … Read more
Something is stirring deep beneath the earth. Or rather, someone. The veteran eco- warrior Daniel “Swampy” Hooper, alongside his teenage son, the daughter of a Scottish laird raised on an off-grid island and an undisclosed number of other protesters have spent weeks secretly excavating a honeycomb of underground tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens in north … Read more
It is easy to overstate Labour’s current woes. Keir Starmer’s personal ratings are better than any Labour leader for more than a decade. Whatever your explanation for the party’s 2019 rout, a formidable challenge confronted anyone who inherited the crown after such a calamitous drubbing, and Starmer’s leadership clawed back a 20-point deficit. When Jeremy … Read more
A man has been charged after a threat was allegedly sent to an SNP MP on the same day she was axed from the party’s Westminster frontbench. Joanna Cherry contacted police on Monday over a “vicious threat” to her personal safety after saying she had been sacked in a recent reshuffle. At the time, she … Read more
The Brexit agreement’s Northern Ireland protocol will not be scrapped, the Irish government and the EU have said in an escalating row over the new trade barriers down the Irish Sea. The Democratic Unionist party leader, Arlene Foster, has called for the measure designed to keep the Irish land border open to be replaced, but … Read more