“The message is clear” – May and Corbyn are serial liars and Brexit bedfellows
The local government elections 2019 tells us relatively little about Brexit – but everything about the serial liars now leading England’s two major political parties and the ongoing death of UK representative democracy.
Understanding Brexit, and where to experience it if we leave the EU on 29th March 2019…
Brexit is a ‘coup’, a ‘virus’ and a ‘fiasco’ of an by a new type of advanced, relatively wealthy ‘failing state’. Kiribati provides a particularly poignant place from which to view it if it goes ahead on 29th March 2019.
A decade of 3LE – still (just about) keeping the faith…
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GE2017 – Democratic renewal or a further indicator of the UK failing state?
The terminal decline of representative democracy has been a theme of this blog for a couple of years. Does the 2017 General Election (GE2017) and its unfolding aftermath change this at all? On the face of it, voters have managed to give a considerable rebuff to an arrogant Governing party who had wilfully misinterpreted a
No place for ‘nice people’ in our Divided Kingdom…
Rupert Thomson’s 2005 novel – Divided Kingdom – provides a powerful metaphor for Brexit Britain. Possibly the only credible solutions now require the break up of the nation state and radical devolution within a progressive Europe.