Post-Election UK Returns To No-Deal Brexit Threats
Here we go again! From the New York Times: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the prospect of aContinue Reading
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Here we go again! From the New York Times: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the prospect of aContinue Reading
Many explanations have been offered for the humiliating defeat of the Labour Party in the UK general election but perhapsContinue Reading
So much for the repeated claims by Theresa May’s Conservative Party government in the United Kingdom that her nation remainsContinue Reading
One gets the impression that Brexit Britain is like a wild animal caught in a steel trap, driven wild withContinue Reading
Given the argument that the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom is primarily an anti-modernist one, driven by nostalgia forContinue Reading
With the news that the European Union has comprehensively rejected the United Kingdom’s written proposals to deal with the anomalousContinue Reading
The news that the United Kingdom is advertising twenty-one new jobs for the Belfast branch of its Border Force, anContinue Reading
In some ways the Daily Express is the also-ran of right-wing newspapers in the United Kingdom. Considerably smaller and withContinue Reading
The news that a senior member of the British Labour Party has dismissed the likelihood of a return to openContinue Reading
I have a great deal of time for political iconoclasts, those who challenge conventional tenets on the ideological Left orContinue Reading
As expected, the scandal involving the UK data-mining company, Cambridge Analytica, has moved on to its unofficial Canadian affiliate, AggregateIQ.Continue Reading
One of the primary motivations behind the United Kingdom’s divisive Brexit referendum of 2016 was the widely shared sense ofContinue Reading
Despite the much-hyped talk of red lines and fighting the supposed “annexation” of its legacy territory in the north-east ofContinue Reading
Yesterday’s publication of an updated report by a parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom on the possible future shape ofContinue Reading
With the isolationist wing of the governing Conservative Party in Britain determined to take the country out of the EuropeanContinue Reading
Facing the inevitable consequences of its inability – or unwillingness – to negotiate a fair Brexit deal with Brussels andContinue Reading
If the United Kingdom is serious about not wanting to see the return of a “hard border” or militarised frontierContinue Reading
For the last two years the United Kingdom has insisted that there will be no new imposition of a formalContinue Reading
As predicted by her many critics, today’s much anticipated Brexit speech by Theresa May, the beleaguered prime minister of theContinue Reading
One has to wonder if Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s tone-deaf Foreign Secretary, realised what he was implying when heContinue Reading
A perfect example of the delusional thinking gripping the Brexit movement in the United Kingdom can be found in thisContinue Reading
It seems that the patience of the European Union with the prevarications of the United Kingdom over the post-Brexit futureContinue Reading