Libération has summed up how people feel about Trump winning the US election :
Politics
Brexit
Politics
UK
Yvette Cooper has written a strong article in the HuffPo pointing out the dangers of the current atmosphere in the UK stemming from the ruling that the UK parliament must ass a law to execute Brexit, and that it’s not at the gift of the executive to go it alone. The judges have been called […]
Germany
History
Internets
Politics
Wonderful World
A German man living in California shared this message with the American people #beentheredonethat pic.twitter.com/Rtq9OqBWmn — Dr. Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) November 6, 2016 Never vote for fascists. It never works out.
Politics
UK
You Couldn't Make It Up
It’s now obvious Britain is leaving the single market. Of course, Theresa May spent much of her speech to the Tory party conference today insisting there was no such thing as a hard or soft Brexit. But there is. Continued membership of the single market is a soft Brexit and leaving the single market is […]
People
Politics
Fascinating article on Trump, and what seems to motivate him: “I started off in a small office with my father in Brooklyn and Queens,” Trump said. “And my father said … ‘Donald, don’t go into Manhattan. That’s the big leagues. We don’t know anything about that. Don’t do it.’ I said, ‘I gotta go into […]
Do Not Adjust Your Set
People
Politics
UK
Fascinating, unguarded comments from Kenneth Clarke and Michael Rifkind on camera in Sky’s studios. Very unfair, and a serious breach of trust, if they weren’t informed that the cameras were rolling. Ken Clarke and Malcolm Rifkind filmed in Sky News Westminster studio making remarks about Tory leadership candidates https://t.co/SywJXdMvH6 — Sky News (@SkyNews) July 5, […]
Europe
History
Politics
UK
Lenin once said that “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This has been one of those weeks. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such a sense of compressed events; news breaking like waves. The fallout from this week will last years. Politically, most of the action, or perhaps […]
Europe
Politics
UK
This ‘Brexit’ event is surely the greatest existential crisis for the UK since Suez back in 1956, which was the moment the UK realised it was no longer a global power, able to dictate events on the world stage alone. Sunday was a day where the complete lack of direction from Westminster really started to […]