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WHAT with a Brexit post-coital tristesse followed by the corona-virus catastrophe, the British media is spending even less time on European economic affairs than the minuscule usual. This is a pity because Covid-19 has not only detonated a massive cris…
“I’ve talked to senior members of the NHS and they’ve reassured me…some of those ventilators from abroad are coming from EU countries.”
No guilt attaches to Boris Johnson, unless by betraying the industry a second time he chooses to endorse and embrace that earlier guilt.
With so many leaders focussed on defeating coronavirus, Brexit negotiations seem another world away. But sooner or later the question of a transition period will return
It is quite astonishing how quickly Brexit has been forgotten. Coronavirus has swept it aside. But to ignore the fact that it is ongoing, and
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Sensationalising data is all too common in politics. We have to end this trend if we want to keep people safe.
In the face of evidence that UK responses to corona virus are at best lacklustre and at worst driven by some weird laissez faire ideology, Damian Killeen reports from Italy. I saw my first masked Italian yesterday, a friend of mine who is a senior medi…
Scott’s gamble is that it is in Wallace’s interest to wrap things up quickly – due to fears for his position. The Prime Minister is making a strikingly similar gamble.
The lack of an agreed border with Ireland makes “an Australian-style settlement” more unlikely than would otherwise be the case.
The election delivered Conservative MPs located precisely in the industrial areas that are vulnerable to the government’s own policy of divergence.
The media has given quite a lot of attention to the speech made by David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator with the EU, in Brussels
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“To think that we might accept EU supervision on so-called level playing field issues simply fails to see the point of what we are doing.”
But is a system of government whereby all power is concentrated in Downing Street likely to result in that power being well used?
But is a system of government whereby all power is concentrated in Downing Street likely to result in that power being well used?
As the Guardian has reported: The Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory, is to be put on an EU blacklist of tax havens, less than two
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For the second time in a few days I want to share an editorial by Bew Wray from Common A.M., which is published by Common
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It’s tempting to view everything though our own personal or political experience. Social media is littered with examples of British commentators with little or no understanding of Irish history or politics doing just that, forcing the general ele…
Of course we think that the result is a bad one. But we encourage the party to co-govern in Northern Ireland, so can scarcely object if now does so too in the Irish Republic.
Damian Killeen argues that alongside brains and hope Scotland needs a parallel No movement that channels the nation’s anger mirroring the Italian anti-Salvini ‘Sardine’ movement. 11.00 pm on Thursday the 31st of January (midnight in mainlan…
I’m English, always have been, always will be. I’m European, always have been, always will be. I love the thought that I live in an island that has three countries, all different and all unique. I also totally sympathise with the desire of so many Scot…
“I know that Christianity and the western past are badly stained by violence and injustice, but I am not sure that we should so casually throw away the inheritance of our culture.”
“If we are brave…we can make a huge success of this venture for Britain, for our European friends and for the world”
The Guardian is amongst many outlets to note that: Downing Street .. did nothing to knock down reports that the UK is preparing to impose
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I watched Johnson’s tawdry little video about the UK leaving the EU this morning: I had not the slightest inclination to do so last night.
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In Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters, there is a quote: “There is never enough silence to contain all our talking…….we continue to believe that across the sea, Europe (and also the world) is holding its breath for the next chapter in our sad story. The world is not waiting.” More than anywhere else in the UK, Brexit shifted the ground beneath Northern Ireland. It threw us down on different sides, sides that were also the battle lines that came before. … Read more
Well, here’s your New Britain. Here’s your “better deal”. Own it, you tossers.
I could spend a lot of time and effort discussing Brexit today. I won’t. That’s because right now saying a great deal won’t change much.
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Plus: No nay to Huawei. Or to HS2, too. And: my looming interview with Pompeo on his visit to London.
We must maintain our pro-enterprise agenda to cement our status as being a place where both businesses and investors can thrive.