As everyone searches around for ideas about what the UK’s future relationship with the EU might look like, here’s an infographic to offer some options. And in PDF format: Post Brexit models
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Dissipation, redirection and staying true: What future for Euroscepticism in the UK?
At a first cut, the 23 June referendum result has been the clearest possible vindication of the many years of concerted action by British Eurosceptics: on a high turnout, a majority of people voted to leave the EU, even if many of them wouldn’t have particularly described themselves as Eurosceptics. The result has opened up […]
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If Music Be The Food Of Love
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1, 1-3 Last night I attended a magnificent BBC Promenade Concert, Prom 17, given by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Roger Norrington; I […]
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Infographics: Getting to grips with Brexit
It’s the summer, so rather than try to write up what’s not happening with Brexit, I thought you might like some more infographics. The first comes from the continuing failure of many politicians to use the correct terms for various sorts of trade deal/economic integration. I’ve avoided the usual ‘ladder of integration’ metaphor because (as […]
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International Intervention: The Future
“We assume from afar, and you can kill someone based on assumption. We have learned a bitter lesson”[i] What does the future hold for those who would intervene across national boundaries to address situations of insecurity, crisis, and conflict? Are the justifications for intervention changing; are new ways of intervening emerging, and what are the […]
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