If your dreams involve a workplace in which your skills are in demand, and you still want to enjoy the benefits of being a part of the EU, we’re just a cheap flight away

Britain should not be forced to accept lower US food standards. But this is only a small part of the harm done by globalisation. What’s wrong with chlorinated chicken? It’s not as if chlorine is absent from our lives: we drink it in our tapwater every day. Surely it’s a small price to pay for the trade deal with the US that the British government seeks?

The EU withdrawal bill contains a power grab of critical devolved areas such as fishing and farming – and even aspects of our independent justice system

... the most hard-core Brexiters cannot articulate a deal that they prefer and has the slightest prospect of winning EU approval. Supporters of Brexit made incredible promises that had no basis in reality. / This matters greatly to Japan. Britain is the gateway to Europe for many Japanese companies. / Failure to reach a deal with the EU, for whatever reason, would be a disaster for the U.K.

The prime minister’s rightwing pact with the DUP and the increasing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit have left the people in the north of Ireland staring into an abyss.

Nigel Farage was this week forced into a humiliating legal climbdown, when he undertook in a settlement never to repeat false claims that the anti-racism charity and campaign group that I run, Hope Not Hate, pursued “violent and undemocratic means”.

Future chroniclers will in fact have to distinguish between three kinds of ignorance

21st-century Britain is very different from 1960s Singapore. Tories wanting a pivot to Asia must admit current realities

The five simple steps to make your voice heard and shape our futures. / I believe three things about British politics. One, the public hates Westminster. Two, Brexit will leave my generation with what is arguably the worst inheritance in peacetime history. Three, the political class don’t understand points one or two.

Small fishing companies are harmed not by the EU, but by government rules that allow big interests to corner the quotas

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

On Tuesday, the UK minister for Brexit said that the UK government would be making plans to stockpile food to mitigate shortages that would be caused by a No Deal Brexit and ensure that “adequate food” was available.

Austerity in the UK has been a political choice, made by this Tory Government, and has nothing to do with the EU or single market rules. EU rules impose no restriction whatsoever on the level of public spending

The costs of Brexit are growing, and that dividend is still elusive. / As Britain’s negotiations to leave the European Union enter their crunch moment, let’s be clear on one thing: The EU doesn’t need to punish Britain for leaving; the referendum did that just fine.

The UK Department for Transport (DfT) awarded three contracts in December for additional shipping freight capacity, required in the event of a no-deal Brexit, direct to providers without running an open EU competitive process.

Those who verbally abuse MPs and journalists outside parliament do not speak for ordinary voters.

Excuse us if we can’t get excited about the ‘meaningful vote’. From the outside it looks like more paralysis and delusion.

Brexit horror stories – like the ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship – remind me why we’ve returned to the Netherlands.

A legal loophole – that has seemingly escaped the public purview in Britain – means that the UK is now caught in a legal lacuna, brought about by the illegal practices adopted by numerous Leave campaigns.

Brexit is dead. It is time to read the last rites.

If the UK has any sense now, just like after Suez, we would retreat and simply accept our diminished status in the world, with as much dignity as we can muster, and hope time heals the wounds.

May needs to ditch her intransigent red lines as a population shift means young remainers have replaced older leave voters.

Inviting a largely uninformed public to make a judgement on something as unfathomably complex as EU membership was akin to asking a six-year-old to perform brain surgery – with a crayon.