Britain in the Doldrums After the Brexit Vote
CounterPunch The recent referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union was a people’s revolt which unleashed a series of unintended consequences. The result was unexpected, and its...
View ArticleAustria Wakes Up and Rejects Far-Right Takeover
The Citizen The June referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union, and Donald Trump’s victory in the November 2016 American presidential election, were massive right-wing political...
View ArticleTheresa May: Walking the Kingdom Down a Dark Alley
CounterPunch Things are rocky on both sides of the Atlantic. In Washington, Donald Trump’s presidency, barely a month old, has made a chaotic start, and is getting sucked into ever deeper crisis. In...
View ArticleSex, Lies and Incompetence: Britain’s Ruling Establishment in Crisis
CounterPunch Photo: BBC Barely five months after a general election in the United Kingdom, the government of Prime Minister Theresa May looks doomed. It could fall any day, next week or next month....
View ArticleThe United Kingdom in 2017: Divided, Scandalised and Lost
The Citizen In 2017, the United Kingdom continued to experience the trauma of the previous year’s referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union. The advisory referendum in 2016 had split...
View ArticleUK’s Brexit Maze
The Citizen LONDON: On Tuesday, 22 October 2019, Parliament voted twice within half an hour on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to leave the European Union. While there was a majority on the “principle”...
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