Among other devastating repercussions, crashing out will cause a hostile climate between the UK and EU, which would strongly serve to repel European and global scientists from our shores.
The recent closure of the Charles Peguy centre is sad but hardly surprising.
Excuse us if we can’t get excited about the ‘meaningful vote’. From the outside it looks like more paralysis and delusion.
Throughout the land people are sharing stories of why democracy is important to them. Together we can bring down Johnson and end this farce
Leaving the EU will damage health in this country where it was suffering the most before the pandemic, and where covid-19 hit it hardest, says Martha McCarey.
A rerun of the 2016 Brexit vote is a terrible idea, but we do need a Final Say referendum
01/02/2019
I am arguing for a vote on the two concrete, deliverable options now before us: to seek a cross-party consensus on an alternative deal based on membership of a customs union, or a public vote on the way forward.
Anyone in the EU who has endured Boris Johnson’s serial dishonesty would need a heart of stone not to gloat at his current difficulties. A prime minister who signed an international treaty thinking he could break it when it suited him was never likely to be a very effective enforcer of coronavirus restrictions with his team in 10 Downing Street.
The EU has opposed brutal animal welfare and rampant tech monopolies. Post-Brexit Britain will be exposed to both.
The industry may become one of the starkest examples no-deal folly, with those dependent on EU markets facing devastation.
If we believe in democracy, politicians on all sides must stop blaming the EU, stop accusing each other and put our faith in the public
After Brexit and Channel death spats with France and Germany, the shallowness of Global Britain is undeniable
28/11/2021
Our populist leaders boast of exceptionalism while continuing to corrode crucial alliances.
After Brexit, Britain’s competitors are running rings around us. Sunak’s not even at the races
08/02/2023
This reshuffle will make little difference: the country is going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end.
After Brexit, Europe lives on
11/02/2020
Brexit is a disaster for the United Kingdom. Given the risk that it will now lose Scotland and Northern Ireland to secession, the country seems to have accepted the idea of Great Britain turning back into “Little England.” Britain is that rare lion that chooses to become as small as a mouse.
After coronavirus, the UK government can’t afford to play Russian roulette with the EU over a Brexit trade deal - Michael Heseltine
27/06/2020
The battle for foreign investment is not a game conducted on public school playing fields. It is ruthlessly fought by governments armed with every trick in the book.
Driven by ideological obsession, the Tories move still further from ordinary voters.
THEY say a week is a long time in politics – and this week has certainly felt it! Intent on further undermining the devolution settlement and Scottish democracy, the UK Government is pushing ahead with its flawed Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill later today.
WATCHING our new and returning MSPs get into Holyrood and start work has been great to see, and the contrast between Scotland’s two parliaments last week was thought provoking than most.
A second referendum could help ease the problem, but what Britain really needs is a radical economic transformation.
As the parliament in Westminster continues its descent into anarchy you could be forgiven for thinking that British politics has reached a state of such utter dysfunction that it may never recover. Thank God then for Scotland which - in an increasingly lunatic world - looks like it will emerge from the morass of Brexit with its dignity intact.
Whatever happens with Brexit, it is vital we protect what we’ve achieved in Northern Ireland together. / Peter Hain and Paul Murphy have both served as secretary of state for Northern Ireland
WHAT was a simple one-step process of exporting meat to France in December is now a resource-draining 23-step marathon.
Anger as Scottish seafood firms 'ineligible' for UK Government funding amid Brexit export crisis
10/02/2021
Seafood sector representatives have said exports have "slowed to a trickle" amid what is described as a Brexit "export crisis".
The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.