This is a very, very strange time for British politics. The Article 50 period runs out in a mere 81 days. Having thought it through, I don’t see how we’re not on the verge of a new political era, very different even to the one we’ve inherited since June 24th of 2016. Yet it doesn’t […]
Archives for January 2019
Breaking down the “we get to keep the £39 billion in the event on no deal” myth
I want to direct today’s article mostly to Leavers. For the breadth of this piece, I will not suggest that leaving the EU is a good or bad idea, nor even that leaving with no deal is a good or bad idea. Let’s park those arguments for now. What I want to talk about here […]
How Corbyn is in real danger of splitting the Left – and by that I mean the Left Left not the centre-left
Happy 2019 to you all. As we enter the new year, I reflect on the past month and feel like a certain bridge may have been crossed by Team Corbyn that will be tricky to cross back the other way. An interview in the Guardian had Corbyn saying that in the event of a general […]