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The government needs a post-Brexit strategy

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Published: August 30, 2024 06:55

It would be unfair to expect the Labour government to have achieved much yet. The peculiar timing of the election, in combination with the parliamentary recess, meant that there has been even less ‘political time’ than the three months of calendar time…

The riots represent a moment of choice for post-Brexit Britain

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Published: August 16, 2024 06:18

It’s hopefully not premature to say the literal, if not the metaphorical, dust has settled on last week’s riots. I’ve waited to write about them as I’m not a fan of ‘hot takes’ on big events, which are often foolish, and prefer to let a little time to pass…

Proustian moments at Le Café Brexit

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Published: August 2, 2024 06:04

There is an old saying that if you sit for long enough outside a café in Paris then, eventually, everyone you have ever loved will walk by. I was reminded of this not by the opening of the Paris Olympics but, perhaps more surprisingly, by an article this…

Uncharted waters

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Published: July 19, 2024 06:36

The new government continued the process it began in its first week of defining, or redefining, relations with the EU. There’s not much to add to what I said about that in last week’s post. The de facto Europe Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds had a…

The return of competence and why it matters

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Published: July 12, 2024 06:04

What a difference a week makes. Not so much because of policy changes, though there have been some crisp announcements, including discarding the stupid, illegal and immoral Rwanda policy and lifting the ban on new onshore wind farms. And certainly not…

The day the country turned on the Tory Party

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Published: July 5, 2024 08:40

So it’s over. From the beginning it has been strange. In my first post of the campaign I noted that for months this election had seemed overdue, but its sudden announcement made it seem premature. Very quickly what was both long-awaited and novel seemed to…

We're still processing the Brexit rupture

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Published: June 28, 2024 06:12

I wrote in last week’s post about the sense of the post-Brexit period having beeen characterized by a new kind of political ‘game’. That is something which seems to have only just occurred to many political commentators judging by the way that Andrew Neil…

Playing the new political game

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Published: June 21, 2024 05:31

The first cricket test match I ever attended was England versus West Indies at the Oval in the baking hot summer of 1976. It was the final test of a series in which a truly magnificent West Indies side crushed England, to an even greater extent than the…

The experimental laboratory of post-Brexit politics

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Published: June 14, 2024 05:33

When the election campaign began, I remarked that it had the strange quality of feeling both long overdue and prematurely announced. Now, just three weeks in, it feels as if it has been interminable, and it is still only half way through. Those things are…

Quietly, an election is being held on Brexitism

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Published: May 31, 2024 06:47

In last week’s post, I suggested that we would not hear much about Brexit from the two main parties during the campaign, and so far that has been true. As such, there’s not much more that can be said about their silence, although it shouldn’t be forgotten…