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.

Analysis

Creating a spectacle around people seeking asylum generates fear and chaos, not solutions

— Recent scenes at Victoria Station and Manston immigration centre are one way the government drives anti-migration sentiment. 12 years of Tory governance has pushed narratives that dehumanise vulnerable people, and turned the border into a spectacle.

COMMENT

Braverman’s brutal Britain

— It’s not May, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak that is the problem, it’s the entire detestable lot of them.

OPINION

Liz Truss, the last PM of the “big tent” Tory party

— I think the Tories are heading for a decade of strife and internecine warfare, worse than the period after Thatcher. And I think – although this is pretty speculative – that it could lead to a complete split between the two wings. Here is why.

Long-Read

Ukraine and Brexit: Reminders, lessons and hopes.

— Of all the things to discuss in relation to the horrors of Ukraine, Brexit is low on the list. But there are multiple linkages, which Professor Chris Grey discusses as a series of reminders, lessons and hopes.

OPINION

Bear faced hypocrisy.

— As they lament the terrible spectacle of Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine, the UK Government’s hand-wringing has more than a touch of hypocrisy.