Tag: Brexit

"A first Letter from London

Bigger than Brexit, by Gerry Simpson

Arena Magazine no. 158

Gerry Simpson

Feb 2019

A first Letter from London
"When the political compact loses its ground

Big Little Britain, by Guy Rundle

Arena Magazine no. 158

Guy Rundle

Feb 2019

When the political compact loses its ground
"The ramifications of Brexit go well beyond the EU.

The Brexit Brain-Buster, by Richard Ogier

Richard Ogier

12 Apr 2017

The ramifications of Brexit go well beyond the EU.
"As it begins to sink in that a political earthquake has occurred in the United…

Trump’s Victory is Our Fault

10 Nov 2016

As it begins to sink in that a political earthquake has occurred in the United States, it is obvious that the media got it wrong in just the same way it got it wrong with the Brexit vote. Wrong in the first instance, they chose to assume that Brexit had simply been an aberration. More importantly, they made this assumption because they had no way of reflecting upon the earthquake in everyday life that is…
"Political leadership for our times: after Brexit, Trump and Hanson

Leading Us Where?, by John Hinkson

Arena Magazine no. 143

John Hinkson

Aug 2016

Political leadership for our times: after Brexit, Trump and Hanson
"While many commentators have expressed relief that the financial dust has settled after the decision…

Brexit and After

7 Jul 2016

While many commentators have expressed relief that the financial dust has settled after the decision of UK voters to withdraw from the EU, there is reason to think they relax too soon. Certainly in terms of immediate effects the political shockwaves in the UK are catastrophic and any ‘solution’ for either of the main parties is likely to have a medium (and probably longer) term unraveling effect. On the one hand there is a basic…
"Was it a mistake? The voice of the people was heard, certainly. What they were…

When the hurly-burly’s done is the battle lost or won?

3 Jul 2016

Was it a mistake? The voice of the people was heard, certainly. What they were saying isn’t quite so clear, and many comments since from Brexit voters suggest that it was the political caste per se, as much at the EU itself, that was the focus of protest. Whether the vote, which has sent shock waves around the world, and particularly in Europe, will have as its outcome some radical political change—which might be the…
"Where EU leaders have got it wrong is that Brexit is less a crisis for…

Bumbling Boris the Confidence Trickster?

2 Jul 2016

Where EU leaders have got it wrong is that Brexit is less a crisis for Britain (though it is that), than the latest manifestation of a deep-seated European malady. A sense of the risk of the EU unravelling is alive in the air in Germany and France because the fear is that Brexit has launched a dangerous dynamic of EU disintegration that, if uncontrolled, may, like Brexit itself, prove unstoppable. Perhaps this is something of…