British government has broken its own solemn legal and political commitments.

The 2016 Brexit referendum unleashed a rise in nationalist sentiment in the United Kingdom that threatens to fracture its union. Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the real problem is that the United Kingdom “doesn’t really know where they want to go.”

In January 2020, as Britain was about to exit the EU, a post appeared on the London School of Economics (LSE) blog musing about the mechanism and conditions that might apply if Britain ever wanted to re-join.

Ministers are portraying themselves as victims of a deal they created for Northern Ireland. A classic blame-shifting strategy.

The EU’s proposals on the Northern Ireland protocol offered what business leaders wanted, but the prime minister prefers failure and grievance.

As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, it has become ever clearer, not just that Brexit has profound consequences for Ireland, but that Irish issues have profound consequences for Brexit.

There is far too much at stake to take any pleasure in this bizarre political reversal.

Future chroniclers will in fact have to distinguish between three kinds of ignorance

Brexit has given us a new species – the harmful eccentric.

A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book, from the author of Ship of Fools, about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and indulges in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism.

A second referendum now looks like the only way to break the deadlock in Parliament, but it also offers a vital chance to bring the country together around what is best for the UK’s future and its young people. The Convention will prepare for what will be the most important public engagement of our times.

Now that it’s a reality, can an esteemed historian produce convincing arguments for the UK’s departure from the EU?

'Three Years in Hell is the fiercely intelligent, funny and sorrowful record of a slow-motion catastrophe. At its heart is the enigma of English nationalism.'

SDLP’s Brexit spokesman says Frost’s attempts to unpick NI protocol risking investment.