UK-EU relations, trade and the political fallout of Britain's exit from the European Union.
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British politics has never been the same since Brexit. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He blogs at Reflections . Among his latest...
British politics is in a convulsive state. After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party has lost public support, and the Tony Blair version of the Labor Party is out of gas. Centrist Keir Starmer has just resigned to make...
Only a popular uprising against globalist leaders in Europe and their proxy in Ukraine, will do A Sustainable Peace in Ukraine: Diplomacy, Neutrality, and the Limits of the Current Order Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from...
What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the...
History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux : Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo is in...
Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour...
‘June 23, 2016, has gone down as the day Britain departed from the mainstream by voting to leave the European Union. In reality, British politics was a few steps ahead of the curve, as the EU itself has become a...
Keir Starmer has resigned as leader of the Labour party, and so in time as the UK’s prime minister. In the end, despite his numerous assurances that he would fight on, after Andy Burnham’s resounding win in the Makerfield byelection,...
In what sense could it be useful to show that western society is suffering from something analogous to schizophrenia? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week’s essay on the importance of psychological factors...
Trade union strength has weakened in the baby boomer era partly because the supply workers have been abundant – a tighter labour market in the context of population decline could act as a boon to worker organising. Jeremiah Nollenberger is a researcher...
Britain’s recent local elections revealed more than a routine midterm backlash. Labour’s heavy losses, the continuing erosion of Conservative support, and the rise of the far-right Reform UK point towards a deeper crisis unfolding within one of the West’s traditional...
Andy Burnham is favourite to win the Makerfield by-election, which could put him on course to be British Prime Minister. But will a Burnham-run Britain actually be any different from a Starmer-run Britain? Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A...
Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. In the United States, but also...
Keir Starmer has failed on every front and is on his way out, whether the next Prime Minister can stop Farage getting the top job will depend on whether he or she really changes direction. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief...
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...
As the entire international economic, political and military balance is upended, and governments are going to find themselves in a frightening new world, unlike anything they have ever known, and where neither Powerpoint nor mythical and symbolic politics can help...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . On a recent episode of the London Review of Books’ podcast On Politics, James Butler hosted a conversation about the current state of Britain’s Labour Party with Sienna Rodgers (deputy editor...
The latest war-driven global price panic is not an aberration but a constant state of being in the contemporary global economic. It is all so unstable that unless we take a new course, it will fall down sooner or later. Robin...
The UK is in a doom loop and the Labour government has got no idea how to escape it. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog...
Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...
What is currently occurring in the UK is happening in most Western nations. Here a good analysis of what has gone wrong and what now needs to be done. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield...
What Aurelien does not appear to understand is that it was the union of workers and middle class that enabled progressive politics. The PMC alone is the Green Party, which eventually becomes far-right. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to...
How Europe Plans to Strengthen Its Security with Partners beyond the United States Europe must take more responsibility for its defence, if necessary without the United States, given Washington’s volatility. In March 2025, the European Union (EU) launched a series of...
The Central Bank of Ireland is complicit in Israel’s genocide and regime of apartheid by facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds throughout the European Union. Its role in the funding of the most unspeakable crimes must end immediately. For the...
Islam Times - The British Labor Party scored over the past week a major victory over the Conservative Party. It gained two-thirds of the British House of Commons while the number of seats of the Conservative Party declined to less...
Britain’s trade exchanges with Iran has more than tripled since the country left the European Union, a move known as Brexit, as the value of annual trade between the two countries reached 696 million pounds in 2022, according to figures...
Do we really need a new book such as "Johnson at 10" by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell to know that Boris Johnson did not have a plan for Brexit? Aren't all the disastrous aftermath consequences of Brexit enough to tell...
The British government has been widely reported over its controversial asylum policies to tackle the mounting number of English Channel crossings by migrants in boats, with some accusing it of "scapegoating" migrants for the country's "broken immigration policy". The increasing...
The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day yesterday, as the rise in dangerous journeys across the English Channel continues despite UK government plans to deport those arriving illegally to Rwanda, Reuters reports....
Prince William, second in line to the British throne, on Thursday, visited the United Arab Emirates at a time when the former British protectorate has faced an unprecedented, though mostly foiled, string of missile and drone attacks, Reuters reports. Kensington...
For the EU, gaining greater autonomy in chipmaking is now a key component of its digital strategy, to fight the semiconductor shortage blooming in 2021 The EU worries how its market share across the entire chip value chain has shrunk The law...
Coming regulations will differ from Europe’s GDPR The government will pursue data partnerships with countries including Australia, South Korea andUS as part of a post-Brexit data regime That may lead to substantial changes to the UK’s data protection law Why the change of...
The ending of the common agricultural policy and the increased awareness of the need to transform the UK's agricultural system to combat climate breakdown represents a window of opportunity. It could be the moment when this and future governments begin...
Shutterstock The nightmare is over. The vanquished beast has crawled back to Mar-a-Lago to lick his wounds. The heroes are hard at work repairing the damage. As America returns to the international stage, the world heaves a collective sigh of relief. That,...
A Brexit deal was finally agreed, but how data will be transferred across the channel has yet to be agreed The UK is no longer within the realm of GDPR, the clock is now ticking on the UK becoming a...
A year ago this would have been unthinkable. Now it has become par for the course. Today, around 34m people in England are living under Tier 3 restrictions. It is quite something that, despite securing prior votes on the onslaught of...
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit has become a reality. One very small but extremely powerful grouping within British society is likely to be delighted that the independence they have long desired has finally been achieved; alongside...
Boris Johnson , like Trump, is a phony populist. His political stepping stone to the position of PM was Brexit. He is a British blue blood raised au pair in the bucolic English countryside. Johnson identifies as a “conservative” but...
The defense industry cooperation between Turkey and the United Kingdom will continue unaffected from Brexit, says businessman Osman Okyay, the head of Turkey-UK Business Council, adding that cooperation in the field can grow as the U.K. stand very interested to...
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furor over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly...
In his 1787 farewell speech, George Washington warned, “… foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.” Washington’s compatriots were more specific. Later in the same year, John Adams wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson sharing...
Since Boris Johnson ’s election in December with an 80-seat majority, the government is in full swing to radically change Britain. Leaving aside Brexit, which will do just that, the government is now attacking the very institutions that uphold...
Shutterstock The victory by Ireland’s left-wing Sinn Fein Party in the Republic’s recent election has not only overturned some 90 years of domination by the island’s two center-right parties — it suddenly puts the issue of Irish reunification...
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly...
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly...
The lies keep coming in a propaganda war to keep the Brexit delusion going but reality brings us the truth – and this is exemplified no better than the delivery by the Johnson government of an unexploded economic time bomb....
Turkey will be one of post-Brexit Britain’s top destinations for a trade deal after the European Union and the U.S., but despite the strong bilateral desire to strike a trade pact, experts are cool on the prospects of it happening...
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