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BORIS JOHNSON’S “sham” plan for an Irish backstop alternative could result in two borders in Ireland and may threaten the integrity of the Good Friday Agreement, Jeremy Corbyn said in the Commons today.
The Prime Minister insisted that under his new plan all customs checks for goods to be traded between the republic and the north of Ireland would be made “electronically.”
He said: “Or, in the small number of cases where physical checks would be necessary, at traders’ premises or other points in the supply chain.”
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE