Our political leaders in the UK often point to the 17.4 million people who voted for Leave on a single summer’s day – 23 June 2016 – as the enduring mandate for Brexit. But is that still a valid justification?

After the Holocaust of the Second World War, during which many millions were systematically, industrially, gruesomely murdered in the worst genocidal crime against humanity, the earnest, global, unison cry was: ‘Never again’

Which way is the wind blowing for little Britain? Little? Yes. We are a tiny, isolated, island in a corner of the North Sea, now quite alone in the world, lost, and lonely.

On the first day of his new presidency, President Trump signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of ‘illegal’ immigrants. A Trump official said: “The federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States.”  The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, […]

Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, had a message for our Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer on his visit to Warsaw on Friday 17 January. He said: “I am aware this is a dream of mine, that instead of a Brexit we will have a Breturn.” Mr Tusk, who was previously a President of the […]

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, she famously declared, “Brexit means Brexit”. It was pure gobbledygook. Brexit at that time didn’t mean anything – there was no consensus on what Brexit should entail, not among the electorate, politicians, or even Brexit campaigners themselves.

Mainstream political parties across Europe attempting to see-off far-right political parties by copying them instead of challenging them hasn’t worked. It can’t work. It won’t work. Or as historian Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University said on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “There is good evidence that politics of appeasement […]