Despite appearances, crises don’t happen overnight. The conditions build up over long periods of time and end up being triggered by some event or other….
Despite appearances, crises don’t happen overnight. The conditions build up over long periods of time and end up being triggered by some event or other….
The Northern Ireland Protocol has become one of the flashpoints of UK/EU relations post-Brexit. Are any lasting solutions possible given the many different and conflicting…
“Nobody in politics seems to know what the real problems are, let alone how to fix them. The government lurches from one ‘fix’ to another,…
Two decades and a bit ago, my son and his friend devised a game. They rolled matchbox cars down the banister and cheered as they…
We have one major supermarket in our high street – it’s a Co-op. Though, yes, I know a new Budgens is opening almost opposite. Its…
This article appeared in Times of Malta Why is anyone surprised? A battle has broken out between the EU and the UK government around the…
Why is anyone surprised? A battle has broken out between the EU and the UK government around the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol. It…
In December 2019, Boris Johnson won a decisive victory in the general election, in large part because he promised to “Get Brexit Done”. By the…
Boris Johnson, we have a problem. A politician elected to leadership largely on the promise of getting Brexit done has got Brexit done, with a…
So here we are, the talks without result will go “the extra mile” for a few more days, and may even continue in some form,…
I suppose it was inevitable. After the political reverberations of every covid-19 related decision, from the original belated lockdown to the fiasco of Track and…
In this issue of our Globalisation Outlook we argue that the revival of multilateralism does not depend on Joe Biden alone. It’s time for democracies…