It’ll Take Superpowers To Unseat Boris Johnson. This Comic Book Fan Says He’s...
Undeterred, Ali Milani carries on his mission. Which is convincing voters in this Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency to vote for him and boot out their current Member of Parliament — who also...
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Britain’s Enemy Of The People?
Photo by Kevin Grieve on Unsplash As a student of the classical world, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must be aware that the model of the upper-class demagogue gaining power by stirring up the...
View ArticleWhat Would Jeremy Corbyn Mean For Britain’s Foreign Policy?
Corbyn is the most left-wing leader the Labour Party has seen in decades, and his plans for the country, if elected, are equally as radical: The 70-year-old has pledged to oversee a revolution of the...
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Boris Johnson’s Do-Or-Die Gamble On Brexit
The primary difference between the deals produced by May and Johnson revolve around the Irish question. Northern Ireland, as part of the United Kingdom, would be part of any withdrawal process....
View ArticleEU Agrees Brexit Extension To 31 January
The EU has agreed to a Brexit extension to 31 January 2020, with the option for the UK to leave earlier if a deal is ratified, clearing the way for opposition parties to back a general election. After...
View ArticleHow The Brexit Election Was Reduced to Trivia
Social media and smartphones have pushed voters further away from mainstream news sources toward friends, memes, and Facebook for “news” that may be anything but. British voters are awash in a sea of...
View ArticleUK General Election 2019: Britain’s New Foreign Policy Divide
Genuine ideological differences have returned to British politics. That is as true in foreign policy as in questions of domestic politics. The post-Cold War foreign policy consensus in UK politics...
View ArticleBritain Speeds Towards Brexit As Johnson Wins Large Majority In Election
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union by Jan. 31. Brexit...
View ArticleBrexit Reveals A Whole New Set Of Political Wounds
The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity. Now Brexit itself has created a whole...
View ArticleBrexit Is Just The Beginning
The British government still needs to negotiate the terms of its future relations with the EU, a task so complex that many doubt it can be completed by the end of the year, when another ominous...
View ArticleUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus. After experiencing mild symptoms yesterday, he was tested for coronavirus on the personal advice of England’s Chief...
View ArticleBoris Johnson Admitted To Hospital With Coronavirus
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been admitted to hospital due to coronavirus after suffering 10 days of symptoms including a high fever, bringing doubts about his capability to lead the response to...
View ArticleBoris Johnson Is Dangerously Ill: What Happens Next?
There is a chance that Boris Johnson’s recovery takes so long that it becomes unsustainable for him to remain in office. If he becomes an obstacle to the effective administration of the country, then...
View ArticleRethinking Churchill
Indeed Churchill was a walking policy disaster across the board. The architect of the Gallipoli tragedy of 1915 nearly wrecked the international financial system by messing with the price of gold and...
View ArticleBye Bye Britain
In 2019, Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In 2020, he shrank into being prime minister of England. For the second time in less than...
View ArticleUK-China Relations: From Gold To Dust
In just a few months, the United Kingdom’s overall policy toward China has changed dramatically. Until recently, Downing Street was famously defining itself as “China’s best partner in the West” and...
View ArticleA Brexit Trade Deal At last: EU And UK Clinch Narrow Accord
Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one of the world’s biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss...
View ArticleBoris Johnson Has ‘Got Brexit Done’. With A Deal That Will Please No One
Brexit was never fundamentally an economic project. It was always more about what it said on the ballot paper in 2016. Brexit was about ceasing to be a member of the European Union. Leavers understood...
View ArticleThe Delusions Of Global Britain
The United Kingdom would therefore do better to approach its next chapter with a little more humility. The country can still play a central part in international politics if it reconciles itself to...
View ArticleThe Minister Of Chaos
Tony Blair and David Cameron were polished and formidable. Gordon Brown and Theresa May were rigid, fearful, cautious. Johnson might as well be another species. He is lively and engaged, superficially...
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