Richard Murphy: Brexit Yellowhammer Is Wrong, but That Doesn’t Mean We Should Ignore It
The Brexit headlines focused on Yellowhammer when that isn’t the biggest development of the day.
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Brexit: Ultra Fracas
Why the Brexit Ultras are down but not out.
Read more...Brexit: Thar She Blows
Does Parliament’s revolt agaist Boris Johnson on Brexit amount to progress?
Read more...Brexit: Focusing the Mind
What does Johnson’s Brexit gambit portend?
Read more...Brexit: Sound and Fury
Even though not much looks to have changed with Brexit, the mere running down of the clock does make a difference.
Read more...Brexit: According to Script
The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.
Read more...Brexit Breakup
More consternation about Johnson’s possible Brexit moves.
Read more...Austerity Has Made People Less Prepared for a No Deal Brexit
The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.
Read more...Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit No Deal Impact
Is a flabby Financial Times story just a case of a piece not coming together, or is the pink paper pulling its punches on Brexit?
Read more...Brexit: Can Anyone Take the Wheel From Johnson?
Johnson is committing the UK to a no deal Brexit. What could stop him?
Read more...Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Impossibility Theorem
No one is blinking in the Brexit staredown.
Read more...“We Wargamed the Last Days of Brexit. Here’s What We Found Out.”
Yves here. It seemed fitting to post again on Brexit, if nothing else to commemorate, if that’s the right word, Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister of the UK Wednesday afternoon. It’s not a good omen that the EU has felt compelled to debunk Johnson’s campaign claims about Brexit that have been taken up again by […]
Read more...The UK’s Dubious Role in the New Tanker War With Iran
Unpacking the issues in the seizure of an Iranian tanker.
Read more...“The Ten Brexit Questions No-One’s Giving a Straight Answer To”
A short Brexit update and some questions on the state of Labour.
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