Is Theresa May Finally Over?
Is the bell finally tolling for Theresa May?
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British Government Passes the Buck to Sweden Where the Military Offense Exclusion Protects Julian Assange From Extradition to the Us
The UK looks likely to welcome to pass the Assange hot potato to Sweden….which could turn out to be a lucky break.
Read more...Brexit: Stuck
Nearly a month into the EU’s Brexit extension and no progress.
Read more...Brexit’s Disaster Socialism
Why disaser socialism looks as dodgy as neoliberalism’s shock doctrine.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Debunking the Technofix Fairy, Biodegradable Bags Don’t Degrade
‘Biodegradable ‘ plastic bags were still intact and capable of carrying shopping three years after being exposed to the natural environment: some arguments and evidence not to rely on the technofix fairy to solve the plastics crisis.
Read more...John Helmer: The Julian Assange Case Now Puts the US on Trial in a British Court – Is There a Get-Out-of-Jail Card for Assange?
A disucssion of legal issues in the Assange extradition case.
Read more...Festering Brexit
Even though the Good Friday/Easter weekend is coming up and Brexit matters are thus in low gear, the UK still seems stuck in its pattern of confusing motion with progress. A short list of updates: Labour-Tory talks still going nowhere. I’m not sure it would be progress even if the negotiations were going somewhere, since […]
Read more...Plastic Watch: Water Bottle Alert!
Plastic water bottles foul European waters. Why? This is a problem that can and should be fixed. Less plastic in European rivers means less plastic in the world’s oceans.
Read more...Brexit: Torygeddon?
The Tories are starting to bear the cost of the Brexit fiasco.
Read more...Brexit: Mayhem
What will the EU dispose on Brexit?
Read more...Brexit: Disintegration
Brexit crunch week starts. And something will break, it’s just not clear precisely what.
Read more...Bill Black: Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”
Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
Read more...Plastic Watch: 2.5 Trillion Dollar Annual Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution
New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.
Read more...Brexit: Shambles
More Brexit faffing about when that’s the last thing the UK can afford.
Read more...Brexit: Pandemonium
Is May’s latest Brexit gambit a roll of the dice or meant to be a road to nowhere?
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