UK Eurosceptics
UK gives up foreign policy influence post-Brexit
Kirsty Hughes that at a time of major global and European challenges, the UK’s decision to sideline itself and retreat into mercantilism, is an act of folly with ramifications that are much bigger than the…
Did England stumble, losing its way?
Reflections on a journey home to Scotland: “As well as being concerned for Scotland, I feel sad for England. If England has lost its way, if it has stumbled and may fall, if there is…
Sovereignty, 1707 and saving the other Union
“One of the arguments of the Leave campaign, after all, was that sovereignty should be repatriated from Brussels to Westminster, not to No.10 Downing Street.” So: parliament(s) should have the last word on leaving the…
Hard Brexit lessons for US Democrats
“Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, Brexit over easy on rye, nobody’s quite sure what they ordered.” But the US is facing a similar binary choice to that of the EU referendum when they elect a new…
Still time for MPs to overturn Brexit
“Had the referendum been a court case, there would surely be a re-trial scheduled already.” The public was singularly ill-informed when it went to the poills in the June 23 EU referendum. Time for MPOs…
A resurgent Labour under Corbyn is good for Scotland
A SNP member here explains why he is backing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour’s leadership and thinks an alliance between the two parties and with the Greens is the right way forward and could be on…
Boris: Don Quixote reincarnated
On reading newspapers in English and French while lazing by the pool or in the cafe – and turning to Cervantes and his rueful knight who bears an uncanny resemblance in his manners to arch-Brexiteer…
A day at the seaside: Great Yarmouth 2016
A photo tour round Great Yarmouth, one of the English towns that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. I can recall the town when it was a chaotic but cheerful place. Now, it seems, there…
Brexit: how the other half lives
The Leave campaign was an exercise in mendacity. But, as the post-EUref fall-out continues to unravel the UK, it’s important too to understand why millions of people, mainly poor, who feel disenfranchised voted for it.
Searching for blue sky: looking again at the case for Lexit
Amidst the storm is it possible to discern how Britain’s (probable) exit from the EU may present opportunities for the left? Justin Reynolds takes a close look at the case for Lexit.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the UK
The collapse of the UK is upon us in the wake of the EU referendum result and pending Brexit. Leave’s populist campaign backed by braying tabloids and a cowardly BBC has caused a debacle -…
Holyrood can’t veto Brexit
There is a strong sense in Scotland that the EU referendum result can be challenged here if Holyrood refuses to give its consent to repealing laws binding the country and UK to Europe. But that…