Brexit
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"Brits will have to give fingerprints to holiday in Europe: Holidaymakers face travel chaos next autumn with introduction of post-Brexit checks and facial scans on entry into EU"...
Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit. Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, a...
I honestly don't understand the "solution" to the #NorthernIreland issue which was caused by the #BrexitDisaster that #RishiSunak seems so excited about. A short 🧵. Maybe someone...
Imagine having so little to say for Brexit that the best you can say about the project to restore democracy is that it helped "our" government to encourage a conflict that may yet...
Maybe we should review all the false language that has been used by the Tory Party over the last twelves years as they have been dismantling the country? Thread: 1/24
The way to understand U.K. politics since 2015 is as a fightback by the left and right wings of the establishment. Corbyn’s election and then Brexit were huge shocks to it and ther...
A brexit supporter on Quora asked me to explain something I had written about trade law, with a question about a subject that I know confuses a lot of people and makes them think t...
I’m sorry but I couldn’t resist: since I’ve just written a whole book on the subject, I want to talk about the history of anti-metric sentiment — how it connects to political power...
So it turns out that @BorisJohnson’s “oven ready” deal wasn’t even defrosted! If you're baffled by what’s going on in #NorthernIreland & how how Brexit precipitated this chaos, he...
A party that doesn’t want Northern Ireland to exist is about to become the country’s biggest party: a big step on the long road to Irish unity If you're baffled by how Brexit prec...
THREAD: How did we end up here? With the UK’s plans to lift lockdown threatened by a new variant. Just as we taste freedom, it might be stolen from us! Well. It’s a slightly long a...
1/ U.K. and EU Brexit negotiators have reached a last-minute trade deal, averting a disorderly divorce with days to spare. Here’s what will change on Jan. 1, and what it means for...
If we're moving towards a fudged NI backstop Brexit deal with a standard UK free trade agreement, thread on the economic effects tl:dr Johnson's is a much HARDER Brexit than May's...
I have struggled with what I am about to say for some time. But I am now at the place where for my own conscience I have to say it. I now disassociate myself from Brexit and believ...
JoHn McDonnell is now suggesting Labour could put the terms of a “credible” Labour-proposed Brexit Deal to a referendum before negotiating with Brussels. Can anyone make sense of t...
