All the people who were insisting before the referendum that Britain could leave the EU and trade with it on the exact same terms are now insisting that you can only have Brexit if you nuke Brussels … (View Post)

Brexit is a state of mind. It's a state of mind that says insularity is to be preferred to cooperation, that blind certainty is to be preferred to nuance, that prejudice is to be pandered to rather t… (View Post)

What has this government done to make its opponents trust it? This would be a tough sell anyway and having a government led by figures who revel in playing fast and loose with data is only going to m… (View Post)

I note @Casino_Royale’s frustration. I know he’s not fond of poetry but this was buzzing round my head when I wrote this piece: “Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For… (View Post)

Old people having rigged the whole system in their favour then complaining that young people are being divisive when they point this out have some brass neck, I’ll grant them that. (View Post)