Jon Danzig

Every year on 8 March, International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, cultural, political, and social achievements of women while also recognising the ongoing fight for gender equality. And 100 years is about how long it took for women in the United Kingdom to win the right to vote.

The grotesque spectacle of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance bullying and ambushing Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February, has shocked Europe. In response, European leaders have adopted a firmer stance in support of Ukraine. From adversity, unity can emerge.

Months before the 2016 EU referendum, then-Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted a fundamental truth: the Leave campaign couldn’t say what a vote for Brexit would mean. On that basis alone, the referendum should never have taken place in the form it did. Or, at the very least, the EU Referendum Act 2015 should have included a […]

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in the wake of the EU referendum on 23 June 2016, she was determined to push Brexit through as swiftly as possible. To do so, she planned to proceed without explicit parliamentary approval, arguing that the referendum had given her an undeniable mandate. Yet, by law, the referendum was […]

So, here’s the key question: Who actually made the decision for the UK to leave the EU? It wasn’t the referendum.