Maybe it’s the coronavirus, maybe it’s the floods, maybe it’s the excitement around the Prime Minister’s engagement/child-to-be, but we seem to have largely given up talking about Brexit any more. Sure, there’s debate if you want it, tucked away in the Westminster/Brussels bubble and deep in the inside sections of the paper, but it’s a […]
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This post originally appeared on the UK in a Changing Europe website. The publication of the EU’s mandate for the coming round of negotiations with the UK is a good point to consider the impact of the politics of Brexit. One of the more persistent – and unnecessary – features of the process to date has been […]
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A separatist movement takes over an American-owned gas plant in an authoritarian Middle Eastern state. Pro-democracy activists take to the streets to protest a President’s decision to remove term limits. Nationalist fishermen attempt to evade Chinese warships to plant the Filipino flag on Scarborough Shoal. The UN Special Representative convenes a conference to negotiate a […]
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You might have noticed – or might even be participating in – the strikes across UK universities that begin today. We don’t have it here, since the local branch narrowly failed to secure the necessary turnout, but those that did vote very strongly supported strike action (as did nearly every branch across the UK). You […]
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36 hours. That’s about how long we actually had a wide-spread debate about what’s actually in the Withdrawal Agreement, back when it was agreed late in 2018. Yes, it’s been thrown around in debate ever since, but it was only for that brief window that the substance got a decent sounding and consideration in the […]
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A week into not being a member of the EU, we’re starting to see who has been thinking about what happens. One of the key messages of Article 50 was that being an agenda-setter was a deeply consequential thing, both on the procedural mechanics and the framing of substantive issues. Then, as now, the EU […]
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