Archive of February 2019
Through the Looking Glass: The latest topsy-turvy logic of Brexit
A tangled up mess of farce and inadequacy is starting to turn us all mad.
-
This Brexit trade bill threatens parliamentary sovereignty
Liam Fox's desperate efforts to salvage Britain's trading regime rides roughshod over parliament and the public.
-
Corbyn vs the Independent Group: Will the left ever stop splitting?
The same old splits by the same old people: When will the left show the same pragmatism as the right?
-
It's time for Brexiters to support a customs union
What was once a mainstream eurosceptic option is now blasphemy. It's time for Leavers to get real.
-
Forced into illegality: Home Office health charge pulverises young people's hopes of a normal life
A crushing increase in immigration health charges is destroying the lives of people who've lived here their entire lives.
-
These irresponsible Brexit games are dealing a body-blow to the Irish peace process
The absence of a hard border is not the peace, but it makes peace work. Threatening it is an act of historic vandalism.
-
This government has bungled every negotiation it faced and now it's even bungling its bribes
When they throw money at companies, they can't convince them to stay. When they try to buy MP support, they still vote against them.
-
Car crash: The Brexit clear-out of UK manufacturing has already begun
Jaguar Land Rover, Ford and Nissan are voting with their feet. Project Fear is now Project Reality.
-
Berger and Venezuela rows show something is fundamentally broken in the Labour party
A party which threatens Luciana Berger while defending Chris Willamson is making a very clear moral statement.
-
Overreaction to Tusk's comments shows how thin-skinned nationalists are
After years of attacking the EU in lurid terms, Brexiters apparently can't handle it coming back.
-
Who funds you? Think tanks are all being tarnished by secretive right-wingers
The shadowy network of libertarian think tanks is devaluing the research of far more transparent and respectable organisations.
© 2004-2019