Having cut Britain adrift of Europe, Brexiters are indulging in an old fantasy about a new national role in the world—as the hub of a far-flung Anglosphere.
If Britain ends up in the recession expected by the Bank of England, public anger will be looking for an outlet. / I asked Albrecht Ritschl, professor of economic history at the LSE, what single move the UK government could make to alleviate the pain. “Suspend Brexit for 20 years.”
The recent closure of the Charles Peguy centre is sad but hardly surprising.
As with another self-inflicted economic injury in the 1920s, Britain is struggling under a burden that could be reversed.
The next generation will reject Brexit and the way it diminished our country – Europe will welcome us back
03/11/2021
Across the world, there is incomprehension at what we have done to ourselves.
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.
‘We are leaving the club. No one asked us to go’ – History shows that Brexit will damage us all
01/01/2021
The personal and human relationships between us and our continental neighbours are priceless, writes Michael Heseltine, yet every abusive headline echoes across the channel.
Boris Johnson will stop at nothing to deliver his Brexit vision – even if that means forfeiting your human rights
09/03/2020
Rumblings from No 10 and the cabinet want you to believe that the ECHR is being ‘abused’ by European judges. The reality couldn’t be more different.
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.
A determined ignorance of the dynamics of global capitalism is bringing about a long-overdue audit of British realities.
Enter the disturbing special exhibition that has recently opened in Berlin’s German Historical Museum and you are immediately confronted with a series of bleak statements: “Liberal democracy cannot be taken for granted any longer … Authoritarian parties are even gaining strength in countries with a long democratic tradition ..."
There may be no direct comparison, but the ghosts of Northern Ireland’s violent past haunt Brexit
04/04/2019
The Protestant politicians of the 1970s and the Tory Brexiteers of today have a common denominator: their fear of ‘betrayal’ and their constant assurance that they are speaking for ‘the people of Britain’.
England’s casual indifference to the border question has betrayed the post-Troubles generation.
Just like the Suez crisis, Brexit humiliation is a stark reminder of Britain’s waning global influence
16/01/2019
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.