Henry McDonald in The Guardian looks at how Brexit is encouraging pro-Union people in Northern Ireland to reconsider their territory's identity, perhaps even allegiances.

When Britain voted for Brexit, a strange thing happened in North Down, an affluent, unionist-dominated area of Northern Ireland with a strong sense of British identity ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes concerns over Northern Ireland's frontiers, looks at how Japanese retailers are hoping to take advantage of Vietnam's young consumers, examines the desperation of Venezuelans shopping in Colombia, looks at Sri Lankan interest in Chinese investment, suggests oil prices need to stay below 40 dollars US a barrel for Russia to reform, ( Read more... )

• Kieran Healy notes the role of social media in undermining the Turkish coup.
• Joe. My. God. notes US Army Secretary Eric Fanning's ride as Grand Marshal in the San Diego pride parade.
• The LRB Blog notes the aftermath of the Orange Order's fires in Northern Ireland.
• Marginal Revolution looks at what might be a veto in Scotland and Northern Ireland on ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes that Brexit could give Scotland a chance to take some of London's finance industry, looks at the Canadian-born governor of the Bank of England, looks at a quiet crisis in the Russian economy re: investment, and notes the awkwardness of the British diaspora in the European Union.
• Bloomberg View notes the United Kingdom's upcoming ( Read more... )

Open Democracy's Polly Lavin writes about how Brexit will hit the divided island of Ireland.

With the advent of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 new opportunities opened up for cross border cooperation and trade. At the time border checkpoints and military lookouts were positioned across the North and border counties of the island. These days, ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes concern in Northern Ireland's border towns over Brexit, reports that Morgan may shift its offices from London to Dublin or Frankfurt, and looks at the hostile reaction Donald Trump is likely to receive in Scotland.
• Bloomberg View looks at the vexed issues of American funding for Israel's defense industry.
• The CBC notes the discovery ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams reports on the Planetary Society's solar sail.
• Joe. My. God. links to Miley Cyrus' coming out story.
• Language Log criticizes the numbers given for Chinese language speakers.
• The Power and the Money looks at the fragmentation of the Mexican political scene.
• Savage Minds considers the academic boycott of Israel.

• Gerry Canavan produces his own compendium of interesting links.
• Centauri Dreams speculates about the colours indicative of extraterrestrial life, and ecologies.
• Crooked Timber takes a look at Northern Ireland and the legacies of past violence.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on a hominid fossil that may indicate a much greater diversity in our ancestral ( Read more... )

• The Dragon's Gaze examines the very complicated history of the formation of the trinary system of Fomalhaut.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a report on the study claiming to find chemical evidence of the impact that created the Moon out of moon rocks.
• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that no plausible American intervention could have ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera's Peter Geoghegan describes the somewhat unlikely spread of Irish Gaelic among Protestants in Northern Ireland. Apparently building on ancestral traditions of Scots Gaelic and close cultural connections between Ireland and Scotland, apparently knowledge of Irish Gaelic is starting to pick up.

Seomra ranga - "classroom", in Ireland's ( Read more... )