The UK government’s plan to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in a satellite broadband company has been described as “nonsensical” by experts, who say the company doesn’t even make the right type of satellite the country needs after Brexit.

The government is accused of using a “revolting” reference to the Nazi Kristallnacht in a briefing blaming Germany for the Brexit deadlock.

Under current PM, government is not Conservative but English Nationalist, says Chris Patten.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big tour of the U.K. saw him booed by EU supporters in Wales and heckled by nationalists in Scotland. Northern Ireland’s fractious parties then told him that his Brexit plans were reopening old wounds.

The 2016 Brexit referendum unleashed a rise in nationalist sentiment in the United Kingdom that threatens to fracture its union. Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole tells Lawrence O’Donnell that the real problem is that the United Kingdom “doesn’t really know where they want to go.”

Six years on, it seems Europe still hasn’t got the memo. For that matter, neither has Britain. The United Kingdom, rather than leaping boldly into a brave new future, is imploding. Europe, meanwhile, seems to have found a new sense of purpose.

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.

Former Siemens chief Juergen Maier says disruption will last at least six months even if trade deal is reached

French president urges raft of reforms to EU including bloc-wide minimum wage, climate bank, and cyber defence agency.

Five years after the Brexit vote, the costs of that decision are becoming clearer.

Deal not a high priority for EU anymore, Simon Coveney says.

This week, Steve and Chris are in conversation with Alyn Smith MEP about Brexit, devolution, subsidiarity, federalism, nationalism, and sweeties.

The Cabinet Minister for the Northern Powerhouse yelled "Britain first! Britain first" in parliament - the same words used by Jo Cox's killer as he shot and stabbed the Labour MP.

This has a strong whiff of the 1930s about it – it is a right wing, nationalist government’s attempt to suppress dissent.

There's little talk of reversing the decision, but evidence of Brexit-induced harm is piling up.

Politicians from mainstream parties across Europe have called on voters to shun the far right in this week’s European elections after Austria’s vice-chancellor resigned over a video sting that showed him offering public contracts in exchange for financial and campaign backing.

An honest assessment of Brexit from Fareed Zakaria of CNN... "On virtually every measure, from business investment to exports to employment Britain is falling behind its peers."

The continent faces its biggest challenge since the 1930s. We urge European patriots to resist the nationalist onslaught.

As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, it has become ever clearer, not just that Brexit has profound consequences for Ireland, but that Irish issues have profound consequences for Brexit.

If a united Ireland is on the horizon a decent departure from the UK must be planned.

We have set ourselves a single goal; uniting all Europeans who are determined to act for a fairer and more ambitious European Union in the face of nationalism.

Ex-prime minister warns of “an unprecedented economic calamity precipitated by a no-deal exit from the EU”.

“Politicians obscure exclusionary ideologies and policies behind inclusionary rhetoric that highlights the ‘value’ of migrant ‘contributions’," a doctoral researcher said.

Lewis Silkin LLP partner Brinsley Dresden explains why brands should be careful of using nationalism to try to sell products.

The UK’s vote to leave the EU in 2016 raised concerns in Brussels about other states following Britain through the exit door. But has Brexit helped or hindered Eurosceptic and nationalist movements elsewhere in the EU?

A road trip through the ancient past and shaky future of the (dis)United Kingdom. / The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution.

Between 2001 and 2019, the Conservative share of ‘more English than British’ voters rose from 40% to 68% while ‘more British’ voters still preferred to vote Labour. ‘Political Englishness’ was also evident in support for UKIP and the Brexit party in the 2014 and 2019 EU elections and in support for Leave in the EU referendum.

More than six years later, Trump’s rhetoric seems prescient for reasons he may not have intended. The right-wing populist shocks that hit both Britain and the United States in 2016 have exacerbated the internal dysfunctions within both countries’ right-wing parties.

It was one year ago today that Britain left the European Union, and one month ago that we also left the EU’s Single Market and customs union.

We are stuck in the Tory game of make-believe that everything is coming up roses in an English country garden. The reality is that following Brexit the rest of the world looks at England with a mixture of perplexity, pity, and amused contempt.

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.

A new UK premier must start forming partnerships within Europe and ditch the destructive populism that led to Brexit.

In a revealing interview, former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke tells TIM WALKER his fears – and hopes – for the country, and of his sadness at what the Tory Party has become.

A TORY peer has said that Scotland will “almost certainly” become independent in the next decade, which he claimed would be a “constitutional and political tragedy”.

The Strangford MLA, who stood down as Ulster Unionist leader in March 2017, said he knew many people who felt "diminished" by the EU referendum result, believing a movement spearheaded by "English nationalists" had "denied them their sense of being European".

Proposal to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights is effort to make government ‘untouchable’, say critics.

'The Brexiters have no more idea in private than they do in public about what they are doing. Predictions based upon their concealed intent project on to them a competence they simply don’t possess.'

When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests, Robert G. Patman writes.

Britain first backed Brexit in a populist vote — albeit narrowly — a foolish move taking a slice of Britain’s economic strength. / Empty words and false and exaggerated claims combined with a dose of nationalism to tip the balance.

The MP says he has joined Jo Swinson’s party to fight No 10’s ‘scorched earth approach’ to leaving the EU.

Prof Harold Varmus, the Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine (1989), was in Pune for two days and interacted with scientists and students at National Centre for Cell Science.

A LEADING German newspaper is the latest international media outlet to shine a spotlight on the growing support for Scottish independence.

The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.

Lord Frost and others are reinventing a tactic used by the beaten German generals in 1918.

When thinking about what I might about say in this lecture it occurred to me that it would be appropriate to look at parliaments and sovereignty, which are hugely important concepts when it comes to understanding Euroscepticism and Britain’s place in the European Union (EU).

Shortages in the labour market, along with the vacancies in the health service, hospitality industry and agriculture, are the living evidence of this self-inflicted act

The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour.

How has the recruitment of UK-based teachers by international schools in Europe been affected by Brexit?

No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.

Almost every nation at some point believes it’s special and on a mission. They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better.

The ‘remoaner elite’, the civil service, the BBC, universities, unions, refugees: anything is blamed but Brexit itself.

‘There are lessons that we can learn from Trump….a lie can go round the world before the truth can get its boots on’.

The sorry tale of Britain’s as-yet-unnamed rival to the EU’s Galileo programme took another unexpected, miserable and hugely expensive turn in the past few days.

Leo Varadkar has urged the British government to tone down “nationalist rhetoric” over Brexit, and branded Dominic Raab’s memo to UK diplomats to sit separately from their EU counterparts as “petty”.

Little could be meaner than sacrificing our young people to promote a malicious form of British nationalism. But is that what’s happened?

Like Churchill in 1948, Macron is determined to posit the idea of union in Europe against what he defines as the threat of Brexit nationalism.

Lord Patten said while he hoped for the best for the UK’s future, “I do fear for the worst”

Boris Johnson to reveal whether negotiations are over – plunging trade with EU into turmoil in 19 days’ time

‘A storm is brewing,’ warn Conservative MPs who say their party is ‘giving up on Rishi’, who is seen as a manager rather than a leader.