Imperial Idiocy: Could ‘Brexit opportunities’ include turning our back on the metric system?
14/02/2022
The madness of bringing back measurements no-one understands and most of the world does not use.
An island nation must trade with its nearest mainland, whatever our new Brexit opportunities minister claims.
What did they expect? For years, the British people were fed lies and disinformation about so-called Brussels red tape — much of it by Boris Johnson, including in his years as a journalist.
50 days on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
23/02/2021
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
The scandals surrounding Boris Johnson hide the disaster that Brexit has created.
The prime minister has imperilled peace in Northern Ireland, and every day the economic fallout worsens.
A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU
The Prime Minister's poor post-Brexit trade deals show the desperation of a charlatan who sold the country a pup, writes Kevin Maguire.
Northern Ireland’s first minister has paid the price for believing the promises of the hard Brexiteers.
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 key goal of the government is to placate the right by sustaining foreign quarrels.
Boris Johnson is poised to become prime minister thanks to a small, unrepresentative population of Brexiteer voters bent on destruction.
EU must continue to monitor and ensure that the British hold up their side of the bargain.
We unionists who foresaw that Brexit would cause problems at the Northern Ireland border were ignored
14/05/2022
'I keep hearing my fellow unionists complaining that their anger over the existence of the Northern Ireland Protocol is not being recognised or taken seriously.'
Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.
Brexit was a disaster at all levels
08/08/2022
As it has already been well documented that Brexit proved to be a political and economic disaster for all sections of our divided society, it should not come as a surprise to learn that it has also had a hugely negative impact on community relations.
In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.
Turkey is losing its champion in Europe, just as the president distances himself from the EU – and democracy.
Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.
The Johnson-Cummings war on the civil service is very troubling. It looks like the start of a rolling coup against institutions
29/06/2020
The corruption of constitutional order can happen very quickly and reversing it can take a very long time and at huge cost.
No Wonder Donald Trump Loves Brexit So Much
03/06/2019
The U.S. wants to move the U.K. away from the EU’s set of trade rules and regulations toward the American one. Farage and Johnson are easy prey.
One thing Johnson’s victory doesn’t change: he’s still lying about Ireland - Fintan O'Toole
15/12/2019
His false claims about the withdrawal agreement reveal an utter lack of interest in Brexit’s consequences for Belfast and Dublin.
NZ must help build new global grouping
25/07/2020
When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.
The refusal of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to publish a bipartisan Parliamentary report on Russian involvement in the 2016 EU referendum is the latest development in a prolonged Brexit crisis that is eroding the UK's strategic credibility in the world.
With Indian restaurants in crisis, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel said we would be able to employ more chefs from south Asia.