Today, January 31st, 2020, is Brexit Day. As I am sitting here, behind my desk (which doubles as the kitchen table) in my flat in Whitechapel, East London, I cannot help but feel a bit bewildered: history is taking place…
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Brexit Update: The Election That Changed Everything
It was the Russian radical activist Emma Goldman who once said, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal” – she could not have been more wrong. Britain’s vote to leave the EU on 23rd June 2016 changed everything. One…
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Brexit Update: Yet Another Election
It’s the Brexit deadline that wasn’t, then almost was, but then again wasn’t. Britain’s ‘do or die’ Halloween exit from the EU ended up being nothing more than unfulfillable hyperbole. Warnings that Britain would “explode” if the Halloween deadline was…
Ida’s Blog #1: Moving to London
Hejsan! (Swedish word for hello) Whoever you are and whatever the reason might be that you’re reading this blog – Welcome! Lovely to have you here. My name is Ida-Maria, and the original plan was to start this blog several…
Brexit Update: See You after Halloween
It hasn’t actually been too long since I last wrote one of these Brupdates, but, since then, all hell has broken loose in the UK. This may sound like an episode of House of Cards, but, The Commons, under the…
Brexit Update: We’re Heading for No Deal
Sound the Brexit klaxon! I’ve now come to the conclusion that I’ve been overly optimistic in these updates! Within the last fortnight, I’ve concluded that the UK is probably going to drop out of the EU without a deal. It’ll…
Brexit Update: More Uncertainty to Come
It’s a wiser man than I who can predict just what on earth will happen next in British politics. Not so long ago, I wrote about what I believed a Boris Johnson premiership could do to/for Brexit. It wasn’t exactly…
Brexit with Boris Johnson
You won’t have heard it here first, but Boris Johnson is almost certain to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Why? Because he will be chosen by the membership of the governing Conservative Party. The Conservative membership…
The Unexplained Wealth Order and the British Government’s Attitude to Foreign Wealth
Here in Britain, we have a saying: ‘don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’. In effect, don’t ask how something good came to be, just accept that it now is. Unfortunately, this way of thinking seems to be at…
The UK’s Broken Mental Health System, by Someone Who’s Been Inside It
WARNING: Contains discussion of suicide 3 years ago, aged 20, I decided to end my own life. I wasn’t depressed, or mentally ill in any way. I simply didn’t want to live any more. I told my parents, and they…
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