Europe is in dire need of unifying leaders
German Chancellor Angela Merkel must have mixed feelings about the British Brexit vote. Despite all that is bad about it from her point of view, the one thing for which she must…
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British sovereignty under attack
Plans by leading Brexiters to power British economic growth by a sweeping free trade agenda could undermine the fundamental rationale for quitting the European Union – defending British sovereignty. Trade policy experts…
Middle ground manoeuvers
The major political parties in Western democracies are scrambling to attempt to understand and respond to what appears to be a spreading revolution against mainstream conventional political thinking on many of today’s big…
The political logic of a hard Brexit
PARIS – Little more than three months after the United Kingdom’s decision in June to leave the European Union, Brexit politics are careening out of control in the UK. An almost revolutionary…
The end of the beginning of the revolution?
There is ferocity in the way that Brexiters are warning against anything less than hard Brexit which suggests they are fearful of what could be called the “think again” factor. A similar…
A glimmer of something in a future that is dark
On Wednesday last week members of parliament were given a chance to debate the need for “Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU”. The House of Commons self-assembled into an intelligently expressed, cross-party…
Oxfam challenges the PM and business
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, must address the practices of “unscrupulous business” if she is to make good on her promise to close the gap between the haves and have-nots, Oxfam has…
Don’t blame globalisation, blame domestic policy
Globalisation has been blamed for many of the woes of the lower middle classes in western societies, as well as the subsequent rise of populism in the west, Donald Trump’s candidacy and…