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A picture of post-Brexit Britain

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Published: September 11, 2026 05:47

In the last fortnight we have had several scenes, different and yet related, of politics in post-Brexit Britain. Each of them is unpleasant in itself, but taken together, as pieces in a jigsaw, they reveal a very ugly picture. More than that, they reveal a…

Brexit Britain is still a tinderbox

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Published: August 28, 2026 14:54

It is now almost exactly ten years since my first post on this blog, and this latest post comes after a long, hot summer break in which there have been virtually no developments as regards Brexit, in the delimited sense of Britain’s post-Brexit…

The Burnham chapter begins

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Published: July 24, 2026 05:36

Of the many ways of expressing how British politics has changed in my lifetime, one is that during the first fifty or so years of it there were seven Prime Ministers and in the subsequent ten years there have been the same number. I also happen to be…

Parsing Farage’s démarche farce

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Published: July 9, 2026 08:54

I had been intending to skip writing this fortnight’s post. There didn’t seem to be much happening, mainly because so much is on hold until Andy Burnham assumes the Prime Ministership. Of course, there are always news stories of relevance to the focus of…

Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling

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Published: June 26, 2026 05:42

It is fitting that virtually on the day of the tenth anniversary of the referendum yet another political crisis came to a head with the resignation of Keir Starmer. Within the next couple of weeks, or at most months, we are now set to have another Prime…

Despair

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Published: June 12, 2026 06:15

I’ve written almost five hundred posts on this blog, which equates to well over a million words, and done so in various moods. But I don’t think I’ve ever felt the same depth of weariness, bordering on despair, as I have whilst writing this one. And whilst…

A new national conversation, or just the same old one?

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Published: May 29, 2026 06:43

Anyone foolish enough to write publicly about politics knows, unless they suffer from an even greater degree of foolishness, the danger of making predictions. That is perhaps especially true in recent years, when politics has thrown up so much that would…

Britain’s post-Brexit ungovernability

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Published: May 15, 2026 06:23

The dust is now settling after last week’s elections whilst the fallout very much continues, especially in terms of the leadership crisis engulfing the Labour government which is developing rapidly as I write (so that there may well be new developments in…

A pregnant pause

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Published: May 1, 2026 06:18

This post is slightly shorter than usual because the last fortnight has been a fairly quiet period for Brexit-related news, with the dominant domestic story having been the continuing fall-out from Keir Starmer’s ill-judged appointment of Peter Mandelson.…

Book review: When two tribes go to war …

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Published: April 24, 2026 06:54

(This is the latest in the occasional series of reviews of books about Brexit. They can all be accessed via the tag ‘book reviews’. My normal fortnightly post will appear next Friday.) Hobolt, Sara & Tilley, James (2026) Tribal Politics. How Brexit Divided…