It’s manifesto time, which means the efforts to divine more about parties’ positions on things gets underway. At the best of times, this is a tiresome task, which is why I’m always grateful to those who spend the time coding the texts. Of course, this is not the best of times in British politics, so […]
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I take it as a positive sign that even my more tangential thoughts about UK-EU relations have popped up before in my brain: I was going to name this post eppur si muove, but I seem to have done that back in 2013. Sorry, Galileo. But the idea of a system that works despite everyone […]
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There’s a lot to consider in this general election, not least the potential for reaching a decision on this first phase of Brexit, but that’s not the most important thing. The vacating of the centre party by both Labour and Conservatives means that the two parties likely to be in the mix for any government […]
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This piece was originally posted on Al Jazeera. If you haven’t been paying too much attention to British politics you might be forgiven for thinking it’s all Brexit, all the time. The issue has consumed almost the entire political system and driven every significant political decision in the country for the past few years. So when […]
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As we await decisions on extensions and general elections, I thought we might step back and consider the question of how the UK might behave during its remaining time as a member state. In the run-up to the new extension, there was much talk from Leave MPs and activists in Westminster about trying to sabotage […]
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