UK breakup: Apocalypse soon?
The doomsters are having a field day in the troubled United Kingdom. They foresee a conjunction of seismic events, if not now, then shortly. Murray Ritchie poses the question: Are they right?…
Politics
A sovereignty crisis of a different kind
In Australia the clarion call of ‘Take back control’ has become the war cry of a re-energised republican movement. Brexiters are not amused, writes Geoff Kitney. “Reclaim out sovereignty! Take back control”….
Brexit. Will the UK prime minister have to blink first?
Murray Ritchie poses the question: would Boris Johnson dare to walk away from the EU with no deal? Is all the talk of impending catastrophe just that? Talk? Brexit deal negotiations between…
Covid-19: All for one and one for all
In the third of a Chief-Exec.com series on the coronavirus, Dr John Egan looks at the vital role of the epidemiologist – the men and women who investigate patterns and causes of…
How the EU confounds its critics
The European Union’s reaction to coronavirus and its economic implications continues to defy the doom merchants. In the face of the usual Eurosceptic predictions of its collapse it has proved that economics…
Nationalists of a very different hue
Competing forms of nationalism are about to change the economic and political world order. And the decisive moment is coming soon when “good” nationalism and its “bad” counterpoint clash. No matter which…
Brexit: Government of the people by the people for the people?
The health of democracy is a matter for growing concern but the responsibility for making it work better lies with the defeated as much as it does with those who have caused…
2020: a year of extreme weather and extreme politics
The climate has turned terrorist against nature, but one dare not mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’, writes Geoff Kitney I am writing this wearing a gauze mask. As I…
The Dumb, the Democrat and the Expert
The people have spoken and the “Brexit Election” campaign of the Conservatives in the UK will go down as one of the most successful in recent history. The number crunching will go…
Voters to hold their collective nose and vote tactically
Britain’s current agony will not be ended by the general election, whatever the outcome, far less by Brexit if it ever happens. In all probability the worst will be just beginning and…