So, just how f*cked are we?
On asking ourselves to consider what we can do about Brexit, because Professor Simon Usherwood believes there is always something.
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How long would it take to hold a second referendum on Brexit?
With exit day less than seven months away, one of the perceived obstacles to a second Brexit referendum is time. Jess Sargeant, Alan Renwick and Meg Russell discuss the constraints, concluding a new referendum could be held much more quickly than previous polls.
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A second referendum is now the only way to move forward.
A clearer path to a second referendum is emerging. This destination is by no means inevitable, but it is becoming much more likely.
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Open Letter to Dominic Raab and Michel Barnier — Enough is enough!
Enough is enough! This morning, I co-signed this letter with Jane Golding of British In Europe to ask for the current agreement on citizens’ rights to be implemented and strengthened.
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Is it undemocratic for a democracy to change its democratic will?
“Leave voters trusted their vote would count, their voices heard.” Let’s examine this justification for arguing that a Final Say For All on the Withdrawal Agreement would be a democratic ‘betrayal’.
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Have the Tories the people’s interests at heart with Brexit?
Some comparative economics to see whether ANY Tory (and the author was one himself) has the people’s interests at heart. Comparing Britain with our partners in Europe.
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Women’s Rights at risk in Brexit Britain - Westminster Hall Debate Plug.
The progress on equality is at risk. Gender issues are at the back of a long Brexit queue. If we don’t fight for them, we lose, and we lose fast.
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Who can regulate the social media giants?
The Cambridge Analytica scandal embroiling Facebook in recent months has raised a crucial question about many of today’s most influential technology companies: What are companies like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn?
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A question of wording? Another look at polling on a second referendum.
The question of whether or not there should be a second referendum has been one of the hottest topics in the Brexit debate during the summer.
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Two aides guilty. We can’t fuhgeddaboudit.
Watching the Trump saga unfold is a lot like watching a crime family implode.
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Toffs, snowflakes and traitors: How Brexit has fuelled a cultural war.
Until Brexit Britain is broken, the culture war will continue to be waged by hard Brexiters through imperialist emotions to spread conflict and division.
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The risky new Brexit Deal deadline.
Britain and the European Union dropping the October deadline for a Brexit Deal is an important development, for several reasons.
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Is it now time for Leave 2.0?
Leave 1.0 (Lancaster House) has failed. ‘No Deal’ isn’t a credible position. Polling is moving against the Leave project. Isn’t it time for one of the key Leave figures to pitch Leave 2.0?
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Trump on South Africa shows poisonous mess he’s serving up on presidential china.
Rashmee Roshan Lall on whether Donald Trump intends to lead the white Christian peoples of the world in a racial and religious war.
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Democrats impeachment is not a do over or a voter recall.
According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, 65% of Democrats think that if Democrats win control of Congress they should impeach President Trump. Are they losing perspective on what the true purpose of impeachment is?
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Would a people’s vote on Brexit cause social unrest?
As the Labour leadership suggests that a second EU referendum would cause riots, Philosopher Helen De Cruz explains what sociologists and economists have to say about social unrest.
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To fly, or not to fly, is that the Brexit question?
The Government may want to pretend that a No Deal Brexit will be perfectly fine and the Leavers may want to pretend that Turnip Porridge is delicious, but the fact is that our economy would simply be catastrophically damaged by a No Deal Brexit.
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