Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brexit. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Tribalism

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I devoted a fair number of my collected 2019 posts to the question of what element of British – or rather English - identity had persuaded...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

why the British masochists did what they did

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The last post was, as always, too long. It did, however, elicit a friendly gesture of farewell and solidarity from an old (Dutch) friend wh...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

The end of a doomed relationship

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Marriages with egoists are doomed.  The relationship the Brits sought in 1973 with what was then called “the Common Market” was driven by a...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

What Might Have been

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This evening should see the definitive British parliament vote on Brexit and we have today also learned that the government intends to hav...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

The Meaning of “it”

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It was Bill Clinton who, during the Lewinsky impeachment , famously answered “it all depends what you mean by "is”. That is the stage ...
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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Brexit SuperSaturday – and my role as your guide

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I blog for my own amusement and edification but readily confess to a thrill when the clicks soar to 750 which they did yesterday – presum...
Friday, October 18, 2019

while our attention was diverted.......

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We were all so focused on Brussels yesterday that we forgot to keep check on what was happening in Westminster where the government was  de...

Johnson's Three Card Trick

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My Bulgarian, Portugese, Polish, Italian, Romanian, Russian and American readers will, I know, be waiting “ with bated breath ” for my re...