Here's Jonathan Freedland on the Guardian webs, on the Irish border issue:

"Pity poor Theresa, forced to tell the rest of Europe – as she did again today – that Britain will leave the single market and customs union yet will allow no hard border in Ireland and no border in the Irish sea. It's like me insisting that I will be beach-body ready by the summer while maintaining my cast-iron commitment to doing no exercise and eating what I want. Solomon himself could not resolve that one."

She now seems to want to make so many compromises, apropos of pharmaceuticals and the aviation industry, for example, even paying money in order to be associate members of deals with those sectors, among many other things, that it looks like brexit just isn't worth it. We are a damn sight better off where we are, setting aside all ideologies on both sides, and I'm sure that the EU response to the speech will confirm that.