Part 1: Go Big or Go Home By the time St Ives had declared as the final seat in the December 2019 UK General Election, the post-mortem into Labour’s fourth consecutive loss had begun. Jeremy Corbyn had already announced in the early hours of the morning of 13th December that he would indeed stand down […]
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How should we judge the US’s lethal drone strike against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani on 3 January in Baghdad? By any standards this was a massive moment not just in terms of the politics of the Middle East but of international affairs more generally: a senior official of a government with whom the US is […]
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Last week’s election appears to be bringing the first phase of Brexit towards a close. The resounding majority won by the Conservatives sets the door wide open for the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which in turn will result in the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, some four-and-a-half years […]
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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about the relative absence of European policy from the parties’ manifestoes in the General Election (here and here). Today, I’m going to continue the theme, but flipping it around, to ask whether there’s much expression of euroscepticism. This has come up a few times of late in […]
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UPDATE: This post now has some corrections on figures and some addition commentary below (29/11/2019) Last week I wrote about the absence of European policy in the LibDem’s manifesto and what this told us about the state of things. This week I’ve tried to be rather more systematic about it all, so I’ve been coding […]
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