Category Archives: UK

Outsourcing Giant Interserve with 65,000 Employees Collapses

Another UK outsourcing implosion in just over a year….what gives?

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.

Brexit: Chaos Visible

Things continue to go badly for Theresa May’s Brexit.

Brexit: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

No one knows what is set to happen on Brexit day.

Brexit: MPs Sink to a New Collective Low of Incompetent Acquiescence

Motion on the Brexit front does not necessarily amount to progress.

Brexit: May’s Endgame

Theresa May presses on with her Brexit game of chicken.

Brexit: The Test of the Ultras?

Another supposed big Brexit day in Parliament. Will this prove to be yet another damp squib?

Believing Six Impossible Things Before Brexit

Everyone around her is so weak that May still is very much in charge of Brexti, and that’t not a good outcome.

Brexit: May’s March to Nowhere

Brexit angst is rising, yet nothing fundamental has changed.

Brexit: May Running Down the Clock by Backing Yet-Again-Nixed Renegotiation of Withdrawal Agreement

May is still firmly in charge of Brexit as various Parliamentary gambits go splat.

Brexit: May’s Sweatbox

A short overview of Constitutional and procedural issues that impact Brexit.

Brexit: Blame It on the Banking Crisis

The parts of the UK hit hard by post-crisis austerity had a strong tendency to vote for Brexit.

Brexit: Chasing Their Tails

More Brexit dithering, but at higher velocities.

Brexit: Chaos

Despite May’s epic Brexit loss, she’s still barely changed her course of action.