Fintan O’Toole

14.01.2021 Brexit

It’s easier to critique honest incompetence than deal with malevolent deceit

“When future historians try to understand how Britain ended up with a choice between chaos and becoming a satellite of the European Union, one question will stump them,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in this Irish Times column in November 2018. “Were

03.12.2017 Brexit

Why even clueless Brits should care about the Irish border and Brexit

Let me lay out my cards on the table: I am clueless about Irish political history. I was born in the early 1980s in Wales. My childhood was spent in England and Wales. In did not learn about Irish politics