Category Archives: Europe

The Brexit Bar

Another important day for Brexit, when there is way too much to be decided with the stakes so high

Brexit: Mayday

More Brexit stumlbing about as the EU sounds alarms.

Brexit: Chaos Continues as Parliament Votes Down All Brexit Options, Press Focuses on May Rather than April

The Brexit noise to signal ratio continues to be very high.

To Brexit or Not to Brexit

Yet more Brexit to-ing and fro-ing.

Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain

In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.

Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash

This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.

Waiting for Brexit

A look at the EU’s Brexit extension deal.

Brexit: Opening the Seals

Brexit gets even more crazed, if such a thing were possible.

Brexit: End of the Road

The UK has run out of time for Brexit machinations, even if that isn’t well recognized yet.

Another Theresa May Faceplant as the Brexit Clock Ticks: Speaker Bercow Nixes Another Meaningful Vote in Current Session [Updated]

Brexit demonstrates the saying, “Things look the darkest before they go completely black.”

Report from the Ground in Paris: The Most Recent Gilets Jaunes Protests

A report from Colonel Smithers.

Shotgun Marriage: Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank Discuss Merger

Even by the low standards of necessity-driven bank mergers, the proposed tie up of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank looks particularly dodgy.

Brexit: The Kindness of Strangers

The Thursday Brexit votes put the UK officially at the mercy of the EU.

Brexit: Send in the Clowns

May takes yet more body blows….while the no deal threat is not yet disarmed.