The U.K.: clean sweep for Boris?

That’s how he got a Brexit deal signed with the EU—but to postpone a revolt against that border by ‘Loyalists’ (Northern Irish Protestants), he simply lied and said it wouldn’t operate as a border. There would be no customs checks, no paperwork, nothing of that sort at all—and the poor mugs believed him. Now they have woken up to the truth.

It’s hard to imagine Wales leaving 750 years after the English conquered it, but Boris Johnson is a universal solvent. Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, is promising an independence referendum by 2026 if it wins next month’s election. Clean sweep for Boris?Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 12, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Twenty-three years of peace in Northern Ireland, after a sectarian war that lasted 30 years and killed 3,700 people, but nothing lasts forever. Every night for the past week there were violent mobs of youngsters in the streets of Belfast attacking each other, Protestant against Cathol...

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