All that summer rest finally gave me the impetus to put together this little chart the other day. It’s a simple breakdown of the time allocated to the 11 headings of the Future Relationship negotiating rounds, including this week’s 7th. Weightings are based on a negotiating block (usually a half-day), with some joint sessions (e.g. […]
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In one of the more random events that suggests I still haven’t ‘got’ the internet, yesterday a thread I wrote went big: Rather than rehash the points made there, I want to discuss two related aspects, one substantive and one more media-y. The EU as a vector of international commitments The substantive aspect is that […]
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Last week, almost as an aside to another conversation on Twitter, I noted that the UK was always going to have a much more difficult time of it all with Brexit than the EU because it (the UK) has to build and rebuild a huge pile of government functionality, while the EU just keeps what […]
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I was very glad to have attended the EPOW seminar series this week, where one of my longer-standing thoughts about Brexit finally got some more robust grounding than the impressionistic approach I’ve taken to date. Sara Hobolt was presenting her co-authored paper on the impact of attitudes towards Brexit on attitudes towards your own country’s […]
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So, only the 6 months until Brexit is done. Or possibly not. The passing of the deadline for an extension of the transition period at midnight on Tuesday means that on a chilly Thursday night on 31 December, the UK will pass out of that period into, well, something. What that something might be isn’t […]
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So we’re back on the edge of another non-decision-decision moment for the Brexit process, as 30 June rolls around. The absence of an extension the transition period means that at the end of this calendar year the UK will enter a new stage of its relationship with the EU. We just don’t know what that […]
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