The UK's diplomatic heft and economic muscle have been greatly damaged by leaving the world's largest trading bloc. It will have increasingly little sway in any future global crises.
UK will be accommodated but never prioritised above collective interest of EU.
To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
The UK’s lost its allure for European students – thanks to Boris Johnson’s handling of Covid and Brexit
21/12/2020
As much as I consider the UK to be my adoptive home, I will move back to Europe for my upcoming PhD research project.
The contest to succeed Theresa May shows that British illusions persist.
In a world of superpower rivalry, the UK must urgently rebuild the strategic alliances that were sabotaged by its departure from the EU.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
If we are to have any influence over issues such as the climate crisis, we must reach out to Brussels – not turn our backs.
Leaving the EU confronts my former colleagues with a greater challenge than Whitehall has faced for generations.
The prime minister’s snappy, inane slogan is the prelude to inevitable lies, betrayal and duplicity.
Trump’s national security adviser wants the UK to be beholden to the US for its daily bread, making the country a timid American outpost.
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
The general election will be the point of no return for the UK in the current phase of its decline, and the US is heading in the same direction.
Brexit’s negative effects are not ‘yet to come’ – leaving the EU has already left Britain crippled for good
05/04/2019
The ceaseless discussion about custom unions and single markets masks the devastating loss of UK power and influence that has already occurred
Chief among these is Britain, who in leaving the European Union, has placed a disproportionate emphasis on the potential benefits arising from a new trade deal with the US.
British envoys may be deploying a combination of indignation and stubbornness.
We knew leaving the EU would weaken us. Now we can see it will limit the ability of the government to rein in big tech.
There cannot be a question mark left in the minds of British politicians - or any others for that matter - as to where the allegiances of the current US President lie when it comes to post-Brexit Irish-British affairs.
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?
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.
'An Ethnocentric Strategy of Post-Brexit Imperial Nostalgia': The UK’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy
29/03/2021
Fabio Petito argues that the UK is failing to realise the importance of regional blocks and has few realistic responses to the current crisis of the liberal international order.