Long-Read

Brexit is slowly being discredited, but there’s still a long way to go

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis, looking at how and why even over Christmas the Brexit debate continued, and the case for caution as well as optimism in reading the most recent opinion polls.

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Post-Brexit Britain: A country broken by lies

— Two years into full Brexit there is a palpable sense of a broken country. Last week’s dishonesty about regulation, foreign policy, and trade, continues the pattern of lies that broke it.

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There is a better Brexit strategy available to Labour

— With Labour looking like a government in waiting, the understandable caution of its Brexit policy faces calls to be bolder. Actually, it just needs to be more imaginative, Professor Chris Grey argues.

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Our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on why despite last-ditch attempts by Brexiters to redefine ‘success’, the public view has settled that Brexit has failed. But for now, our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit.

Festival of Brexit

Investigation into the B̶r̶e̶x̶i̶t̶ UNBOXED festival

— Lack of audience engagement at the UNBOXED festival which was intended as a celebration of Brexit.

Long-Read

The Brexit silence is breaking

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the budget aftermath exposed the costs and the lack of public consensus for Brexit. Some of the revived debate repeats the past, but there is a new context. How Labour responds now is crucial.

COMMENT

Britain is failing the Aid and Reconstruction Complex

— What if a country has made such a series of catastrophic decisions that it cannot afford to help people in other parts of the world or protect the planet anymore?

Immigration

UK-France migration deal: How does Brexit factor into the plan to stop small boats?

— The new deal with France provides clear and compelling evidence that the way the UK chose to leave the EU actually meant a reduction in the ability to control irregular migration.

OPINION

It’s Brexit, stupid

— We are stuck in the Tory game of make-believe that everything is coming up roses in an English country garden. The reality is that following Brexit the rest of the world looks at England with a mixture of perplexity, pity, and amused contempt.

Long-Read

Can’t pay? Won’t pay!

— Rishi Sunak’s pitch of economic competence brings the cost of Brexit into new focus. For all the claims of the usual suspects, voters won’t be willing to pay the price of this failed and unpopular project.

Long-Read

Enter Sunak, the fifth Brexit Prime Minister

— The ignominious collapse of Liz Truss’s government may mark a turning point in the entire Brexit saga. But the corner has not been turned by the arrival of Rishi Sunak. Nor will it be until the poison of Brexit lies has been drained from the body politic.

Scottish Independence

Scottish independence: How Nicola Sturgeon’s pledge to rejoin the EU could impact a referendum vote

— Recent polling indicates that the EU question is central in the minds of Scottish independence voters.

Long-Read

The best hope lies in this government’s hopelessness

— Ironically, as well as being deeply depressing, the most hopeful thing about this government is how utterly hopeless at governing it is proving itself to be.

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The week the wheels came off the Brexit Britain bus

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the Brexiters’ budget, which they say is crucial to Brexit, exposes their total incompetence (not a cunning plan), so that the crisis is a verdict on Brexit itself.

Analysis

What Liz Truss’s Conservative party conference speech revealed

— In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.

Environment

Liz Truss’s ‘destructive’ plans have angered environmental groups

— Environmental groups have criticised the government’s approach to nature – but what is this approach and why is it concerning?