I’m happy to tell you that my track record on Brexit is pretty poor. I thought the referendum wouldn’t happen; I thought that when it did, there’d be a small majority for Remain; when there wasn’t, I thought the UK government would be able to get together a plan very quickly. And let’s not even […]
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Absent anything useful to say/write about the chances of a deal (which seems to work really when making social media content, by the way), I’m just going to share something a bit different. Yesterday I gave evidence in what is possibly the final enquiry of the House of Common’s Future Relationship with the EU Committee. […]
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This post was originally written for Research Professional News and is reproduced with kind permission. It would be understatement to say that this year has not been a kind one to British universities, battered as their pedagogic and business models have been by Covid. But just as hope appears on the horizon in the form […]
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Today’s a special day, for several reasons. Most importantly, it’s the launch of our new Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in the Centre for Britain and Europe, with many excellent speakers (and me). You can follow the discussion on Twitter on #SurreyBritainEurope and by following our account. But it’s also important as the deadline for […]
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As part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science, we held a roundtable discussion on Brexit on Wednesday 11 November. I was joined by my colleagues Simona Guerra and Holger Breinlich to present on some headline findings from research and to try and answer the questions from our lovely audience. You can listen to our […]
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The eerie quiet of negotiators, um, negotiating means we’ve seen very little of the Future Relationship process of late: everyone’s too busy trying to work up texts and compromises to brief outsiders. Which makes it a good time to consider an aspect of the ratification problem that’s not been much seen so far: what happens […]
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