Border
Border Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle.…
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Border
Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. I can think of several MPs who ought to.' The TimesFor the past two decades, you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or, indeed, turning off the road you were travelling.
Before that, watchtowers loomed over border communities, military checkpoints dotted the roads, and smugglers slipped between jurisdictions. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday Agreement. This is a past that most are happy to have left behind but might it also be the future?The border has been a topic of dispute for over a century, first in Dublin, Belfast and Westminster and, post Brexit referendum, in Brussels.
Yet, despite