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Wreath gaffe puts Corbyn in hot water
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2018
» It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party -- and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn't leave the European Union after all.
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Brexit blues sink in for May as deal reduced to farce
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/12/2017
» Politicians never lie. Well, hardly ever. They're not into full disclosure, as a rule, but they know that if you lie, sooner or later you will be caught out, and then you are in deep trouble. So just change the subject, or answer a different question than the one you were asked, or just keep talking but saying nothing until everybody gets bored and moves on.
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May's mess: 'Soft' Brexit or no Brexit
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/06/2017
» 'We don't know when Brexit talks start. We know when they must end," tweeted Donald Tusk, former Polish prime minister and now president of the European Council.
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A journalist's funeral in Ireland reignites deadly past
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/04/2019
» On Wednesday, the Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, and Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, both showed up in Belfast in Northern Ireland for the funeral of a young woman called Lyra McKee. So did the president of the Republic, Michael Higgins and UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. It's quite possible that none of them had even heard of her a week ago.
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The Brexit cult is proving dangerous for Britain
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/07/2019
» Oscar Wilde described fox-hunting as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible". Brexit may be similarly defined as the unhinged in pursuit of the infeasible.
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Brexit heads to climax over Irish border
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/11/2018
» It was either ignorant or irresponsible for those campaigning for Brexit (British exit from the European Union) two years ago to claim that the Irish border would not be a problem. In fact, it may lead to a catastrophic "no deal" Brexit in which the United Kingdom crashes out of the EU without an agreement of any kind.
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Welcome back to the Troubles?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/03/2019
» The other Europeans are not laughing at the English for the most part. They are looking at them with pity and scorn. But also with a great deal of impatience.
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The last prime minister of the United Kingdom
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/07/2019
» It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom this week) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Mr Trump's bombastic self-promotion and Mr Johnson's self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.
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No turning point in Brexit bedlam yet
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/07/2018
» Even with Donald Trump scheduled for a brief visit to the United Kingdom this week amid massive protests, it's still "all Brexit, all of the time" in the sceptred isle -- and the long struggle over the nature of the deal that will define Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) post-exit allegedly reached a turning point last weekend.
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Proroguing parliament was Johnson's only option
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2019
» Shock! Horror! Johnson prorogues Parliament! End of democracy in Britain! The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, says he was not even consulted, and calls it "a constitutional outrage".
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