John Bird: Like Churchill, we need to make the right impression
For the first time in the United Kingdom’s history, a major election result has been rejected by a vast minority. And a Parliament that is decidedly for one side of the argument has been unable to...
View ArticlePlugging the skills gap: How Brexit will impact construction and health care
A record number of EU citizens moved to the UK in 2015 – 260,000. The following year, the UK voted Leave. Ending freedom of movement is a reason many welcome Brexit. “No more jumping the queue” and...
View ArticleBrexit will stop landlords renting to EU nationals under Right to Rent scheme
Landlords are warning that the rental market could become even more hostile to non-UK citizens after Brexit. Under the Right to Rent scheme, private landlords are expected to check tenants’ immigration...
View ArticleListen to BBC political correspondent Chris Mason’s Brexit Megamix
Tweets. Tweets. Tweets. Hard to avoid them in contemporary politics. But these were the real thing. Perched somewhere up in the branches of what I think are the London planes that line Millbank in the...
View ArticleGina Miller on saving democracy and being a ‘transparency campaigner’
Business owner Gina Miller drew media attention when she brought a High Court case against the government – ultimately forcing them to put Article 50 through Parliament before it could be passed. And...
View ArticlePaul McNamee: The fairy folk aren’t buying this Brexit
There’s an issue with fairy trees in Ireland. Dotted across the landscape, north and south, you’ll see trees standing proud in the middle of fields. They’re frequently hawthorns – gnarly, old, with...
View ArticleNo Deal Brexit: Getting ready for the cheddar deficit
Of all the cheddar imported to the UK, 82 per cent comes from Ireland – a total of 78,000 tonnes per year. The supply chain in Ireland criss-crosses the border (one third of Northern Irish milk goes...
View ArticleYellowhammer food price rises are “stark” for the poor
The government’s Yellowhammer document reveals that those on low income will bear the brunt of the problems from a no-deal Brexit. Ministers expect food prices to soar if the UK crashes out of the...
View ArticleMake or break Brexit: the future of social enterprise
Necessity is the mother of invention. The best ideas are creative responses to need, responses that big business and government aren’t always nimble enough to make. Just look at The Big Issue. The rise...
View ArticleGovernment to abandon refugee funding in case of no-deal Brexit
Thousands of people are demanding the government reverses its decision to cut funding that ensures vulnerable refugees can access housing and healthcare if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal....
View Article‘People are getting desperate’: The no-deal Brexit crisis facing foodbanks
A no-deal Brexit could leave thousands of already vulnerable people without access to food, a global human rights organisation has warned. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the government is not taking...
View ArticleWe asked Europe frontman Joey Tempest if Brexit really is The Final Countdown
In Brexit Britain, one song is the anthem for our age: The Final Countdown by the Swedish band named, fittingly enough, Europe. We asked frontman and songwriter Joey Tempest to ruminate on the...
View Article“Mostly, I feel tired”: A Brit abroad’s perspective on Brexit Day in Berlin
It’s the first thing people ask you about at parties. ‘How are you feeling about Brexit?’ Mostly, I feel tired. I moved to Berlin exactly two weeks before the initial Brexit deadline of March 29 2019....
View ArticleWhy Brexit is bad for Britain’s orchestras
The UK’s orchestras are a global success. But that success comes at a price. It’s an expensive and risky business putting on classical concerts, involving the movement of upwards of 100 people plus...
View ArticleWith coronavirus and Brexit, musicians need our support more than ever
Among countless unflattering images of Boris Johnson that the internet has enjoyed ridiculing over the years, there’s one from 2013 back when he was Mayor of London which in some ways encapsulates the...
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Lords hear pleas for EU citizens to get physical proof of settled status
The House of Lords has backed calls for EU citizens to receive physical proof of their right to remain in the UK after Brexit, a demand of campaign groups concerned by those who may be left behind when...
View ArticleEU citizens risk losing jobs and homes as July deadline looms
Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens risk losing their jobs and homes if they do not meet the deadline for a post-Brexit settlement scheme, experts have warned. EU nationals who have not applied for...
View ArticleWe need new thinking, shaken not stirred
At the turn of the year I allowed myself to get a little lost. I became obsessed with a book called When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamín Labatut. I read it in a fever and then went back...
View ArticleEU workers departing ‘will leave UK industries in total crisis’
An exodus of European workers as a result of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic has left key industries in Britain with severe staff shortages – and the worst is yet to come. With the June 30 deadline...
View ArticleSettled status deadline risks ‘Windrush-type tragedy’
The deadline for EU citizens to apply for settled status in the UK is an “unmitigated disaster”, according to immigration experts, as the government’s post-Brexit rules threaten to strip thousands of...
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