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“our national story”
In her Florence speech Theresa May said: “because of our history and geography, the EU never felt to us like an integral part of our national story”. In response, I tweeted this thread. Here in one...
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Knit for Victory
About 18 months ago I taught myself to knit. It’s something I’d been meaning to do for a long time, I had always seen it as a beautiful craft and a potentially very satisfying creative outlet. With a...
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Play up, play up, and play the game
Michel Barnier has warned the UK that Brexit is not a game. This was in response to Theresa May’s comment in Parliament that “the ball is in the EU’s court”. Language matters. The UK side has...
View ArticlePost on the LSE’s Brexit blog: “Going it alone on trade is like bringing a...
I’ve reworked one of my twitter threads on trade into a post for the LSE’s Brexit blog. I argue that the kind of Brexit being advocated both on the left and the right of British politics is unrealistic...
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Remembrance Day and Brexit
My EU poppy gets a mention in this Spectator blog. I profoundly disagree with the author. War, and peace, are as political as it gets, and defending the EU as a peace project is not trivialising...
View ArticleIt’s identity theft
Here is the gist of a semi-impromptu intervention I made in the sleet at the #FinalSayForAll rally in Brussels on 11 December. I was radicalised by Thatcher’s Bruges speech. I’m a lifelong advocate of...
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LSE Brexit Blog: So Long & Thanks For All The Red Tape
I’ve contributed another piece to the LSE Brexit Blog, this time expanding upon my tweet below which went a bit viral after I spluttered indignantly at David Davis and his disdain for impact...
View ArticleIncompatible Fictions
I have just started listening to Sapiens, the book by Yuval Noah Harari. I’m finding it engrossing and thought-provoking in the best traditions of popular science writing. Harari argues that the key...
View ArticleBrexit binaries
Many people in Britain thought the referendum win for Leave was the moment we left the EU. The deed was done, we were out. Many people in Britain think we’re still in the EU, until the moment...
View ArticleHappy for EFTA After
In recent days there has been a nasty spat of recriminations among former Remainers, some of whom blame others for excessive zeal, making the best the enemy of the good, and pushing us towards the...
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