Tag: EU
Never Gonna Give EU Up
EVERY time that I think I’m over Brexit, I realise that I’m really, *really* not. It’s been over two years: I’m still deeply angry....
Brexit, Northern Ireland & the DUP
Perhaps the most exhausted quotation in modern poetry is W.B Yeats: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the...
Stuck on Mount Brexit
Theresa May likes her walking holidays. She reportedly decided to call last year's general election on one such venture in Snowdonia. She may not...
Germany’s Migration Crisis: The Policy Which Nearly Ended the Coalition
In 2015, the European Union faced rising figures of people seeking refuge in Europe in an attempt to escape war, poverty and persecution. Images...
Boris Johnson’s Charm Offensive of Latin America
The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has returned from his five-day Latin American tour of Peru, Argentina and Chile that was conducted from the 19th...
Some Vague Utopia – A Brexit Update
Just before Christmas, Theresa May returned from Brussels a hero. In the space of a week she had seemingly salvaged a process that appeared...
How to ‘win’ elections and alienate people
The Prime Minister stands triumphant in the House of Commons, a majority larger than Margaret Thatcher’s stacked up behind her. The opposition benches are...
The Brexit Election
Theresa May has a comical aversion to giving a straight answer. For a long time, her only public pronouncements on Brexit were slogans: ‘Brexit...
Brexit negotiations – where are they going with this?
Brexit means … what, exactly?
The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
That much is clear, assuming the stars don’t align and send a bewildered...
‘We can change the world in many ways, but the core...
Clutching onto my newly bought copy of Politico, I couldn’t decide what was more intimidating: the fact that I’d be interviewing the senior EU...
