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The Meaning of a British Exit from the European Union
By John McCormick Since January 2013, and the announcement by British Prime Minister David Cameron of his plan to hold a referendum on continued UK membership of the European Union, there has been...
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Would the United Kingdom survive an exit from the EU?
By Sionaidh Douglas-Scott In September 2014, the UK survived one of the most serious threats to its constitutional existence – the very closely run Scottish referendum on independence. That this was...
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Eurosceptics at a Junction: Antagonising the EU for the Sake of it is Risky
By Alessio Colonnelli By Woodennature (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAll right-wing parties seem to dabble in anti-EU rhetoric more or less radically: the EU weakens the prerogatives of...
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Brexit will give neither Hitchens nor Mason the Europe they desire
By Denis MacShane Recently I had the pleasure of debating Europe with Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday at the Dulwich Literary Festival. Hitchens advanced the well-worn Brexit arguments about...
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How visible are Britain’s EU renegotiation demands across Europe’s...
By Max Hänska and Stefan Bauchowitz David Cameron warned EU leaders to meet Britain’s demands, as he faced mounting pressure to outline his terms for keeping the UK in the EU. He is expected to set out...
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Has the EU failed us, or have we failed to forge a European identity?
By Marina Prentoulis As a Greek citizen long resident in Britain, I cannot help noticing the almost complete absence of any sense of European identity in the UK. It seems that Britain has never really...
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Will The Real Project Fear Please Stand Up?
By Henry Radice This is the second in a series of pre-referendum opinion pieces, Defenestrations: (Un)Framing the EU Referendum Debate. The first one addressed the issue of the referendum itself, and...
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The UK is Reaping What the British Media Have Been Sowing for a Long Time
By Maria Kyriakidou The result of the EU referendum and the now imminent Brexit have been met with shock and disbelief both globally and in the UK. Despite indications by the polls there was still...
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Brexit and Democracy
By Mary Kaldor The vote to leave Europe seems to have set off a spate of events spinning in different and dangerous directions. The two main political parties are falling apart. Scottish politicians...
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On Brexit & Control
By Tom Gaisford The EU referendum result was not a triumph for democracy, so much as a symptom of large-scale manipulation. For all the discord and unrest it has unleashed, it may at least serve to...
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‘We want our country back’ – stop sneering, start listening
By Michael Skey The post-mortem is now well under way and the general consensus seems to be that those who voted leave were gullible fools led astray by a combination of a partisan press and slick...
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The battle lines have been etched
By Max Hänska Latent tensions became manifest with the result of the Brexit referendum, etching the battle line that will define the struggles ahead. Those who have embraced and built their lives...
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How reliant is Britain on EU migrant workers?
By Catherine Harris Brexit – the UK vote to leave the European Union – has caused uncertainty in a number of areas. One of which is the impact that potentially reduced immigration will have on the...
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What 7.5m tweets taught us about the Brexit campaign
By Stefan Bauchowitz and Max Hänska How did Eurosceptic (leave) and pro-European (remain) activity compare on social media in the run-up to the EU referendum, and was there a relationship between...
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Monsters in the Mist: The Elusive Quest for Financial Security in Scotland...
By Faye Donnelly and William Vlcek Image credit: First Minister of Scotland (CC-BY-SA-2.0) It is easy to become disillusioned, confused and even fanciful when trying to envision Scotland’s financial...
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Democracy Between Compromise and Control
By Henry Radice The slogan ‘take back control’ was widely credited as a key factor in the UK’s vote to leave the EU on June 23rd. That vote revealed many cleavages in how we understand our democracy....
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A View on Brexit from Abroad
By Henry Freeman Promises of an extra £350m a week, posted on the side of a bus. Doomsday economic predictions from the Remain campaign; the reply, “We’ve had enough of experts!”. Jo Cox MP shot dead...
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President Trump and the Politics of Tragedy
By Roberto Orsi For someone who tries to think in dialectical terms, the catastrophic handling of the immigration crisis in 2015 raised more than just some concern. It appears simply impossible that...
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The Economics of Brexit Needn’t Be Quixotic: Towards a Green Industrial...
By Afzal S. Siddiqui and Max Hänska “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do...
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We’ve triggered Article 50. Is this such a tragedy for Europe?
By Mary Kaldor It is now possible that new governments in France and Germany will respond to civil society pressure and do what is needed to change the EU, without being blocked by Britain. This is a...
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