Tag: brexit

• Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas Bonus: Sovereignty

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/1mC2EPO This bonus episode for PPF+ to accompany our bad ideas series is about what’s gone wrong with the idea of sovereignty. David talks to historian of ideas Lucia Rubinelli… more ›

• What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?

  March 31, 2024

  My life divides, evenly enough, into three political eras. I was born in 1980, a year after Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street with the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi… more ›

• Dominic Cummings calls for ‘weirdos and misfits’ for No 10 jobs

  January 11, 2020

  Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, has written a rambling blog calling for “weirdos and misfits with odd skills” to apply for new jobs within No 10. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/02/dominic-cummings-calls-for-weirdos-and-misfits-for-no-10-jobs more ›

• UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying

  January 10, 2020

  The British government has been accused of “behaving like a bunch of cowboys” after a confidential report revealed it had allowed illegal copying of an EU database. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/uk-accused-of-behaving-like-cowboys-over-eu-database-copying more ›

• L’Afrique au risque d’un Brexit sans accord

  November 21, 2019

  Le nouveau premier ministre britannique Boris Johnson à Berlin, le 21 août 2019. Axel Schmidt / REUTERSAlors que grandit le risque d’une sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne (UE) sans… more ›

• Populism is growing because more people than you think want chaos

  September 29, 2019

  At the heart of populism is the divide between the establishment and the people. Two new studies suggest that divide is deeper than we think. They find a substantial number… more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• Asian billionaires embark on UK spending spree as pound nosedives

  August 23, 2019

  China’s president, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron famously sealed their countries’ “golden era” friendship in 2015 over a pint of Greene King IPA at The Plough at Cadsden, a five-minute… more ›

• What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery

  August 19, 2019

  If you want to understand American politics in 2019 and the strain of reactionary extremism that has taken over the Republican Party, a good place to start is 2011: the… more ›

• Secret Cabinet Office document reveals chaotic planning for no-deal Brexit

  March 22, 2019

  The extent and range of the impact of a no-deal Brexit is revealed in a confidential Cabinet Office document that warns of a “critical three-month phase” after leaving the EU… more ›