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Theresa May is Going Nowhere.

November 18, 2018

A pun plays on the two different meanings of a word or phrase. For example, this morning I woke up …

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Power to the People in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.

September 12, 2018

Last week, Tony Blair was interviewed on the BBC podcast “Political Thinking.” The interview was more of an exercise in …

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Can a second referendum ever be fair?

July 30, 2018

I always thought that a referendum would be the unfairest possible way of measuring popular support for the European Union. …

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A Bad Week for the EU.

May 30, 2018

It is a bad week for the European Union whenever people notice it and begin to think about it. This …

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Time to Crash Out!

May 8, 2018

Summer is here, the city is fresher than it’s felt in a long time, and it’s time to crash out! …

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The Windrush Scandal: British Citizenship Should Become Unconditional After Three Years.

April 23, 2018

Callooh! Callay! for the UK’s Antillean migrants. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised this afternoon that their applications for British …

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Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.

March 30, 2018

[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …

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A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.

March 27, 2018

“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …

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What is the Use of “Artists for Brexit”?

March 7, 2018

Let me plunge you back into the cauldron of 2014. Scotland is in the midst of – of all things! …

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Lord Andrew Adonis’ Guide to the European Union.

February 17, 2018

Once, within the boundaries of the European Union, there was a very wise philosopher named Andrew Adonis. He was so …

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Start-Ups In Season.

January 23, 2018

A story leapt out of my news feed on Monday morning that may well put me in a good mood …

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Book Review: The End of Europe

December 1, 2017

How can James Kirchick apprehend the “end of Europe” when he has no ready starting-point? What exactly is ending and …

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Catalan Nationalism versus City Statehood for Barcelona.

October 6, 2017

Catalan independence is still, despite everything, inconceivable. It is still all but a political impossibility. For a start, there is …

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Why We Must Tolerate Scottish Dawn.

September 20, 2017

Let’s meet Scotland’s newest political party. Scottish Dawn is a neo-Nazi youth movement that occupies essentially the same point on …

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The Day Remain Died.

September 15, 2017

At the heart of the evolution of the European Union has been a collective refusal to refer to the fact …

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