Arts
Placard-waving and Marching to Exit
The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]
Vote leave
20th Century
Strands from the Yellow Vests
Labelling Leave voters racist bigots did not end “well” in Spring 2016. Neither did calling Trump supporters a basket of deplorables in September 2016. Now it is the turn of the French Gilets Jaunes, in [more…]
Authoritarianism
They’re People Too
EU acolytes repeatedly trot out the line that a vote to Leave, like mine, was based on emotion. It’s true that many of us discounted potential, short term, economic challenges in comparison with the political [more…]
Christianity
Martin Luther and Brexit: Game Changers
We all know that Henry VIII famously broke with the Pope in Rome to seek a marriage with Anne Boleyn. But another important question is how was he able to do this? More specifically, would [more…]
Conservatives
Lend Me Your Ear. Gauke, Are You Listening? A Letter…
Patriots, patriots, lend me your ear! Brexiteers in the media, in politics, in the blogosphere and on internet fora, their messages resonate to a wide interconnected, yet disorganised union. There is no focus to combating [more…]
Uncategorized
Left Behind
For those of us who not only voted Leave, but actively supported it in all its guises, some of the most interesting aspects of the aftermath of victory is watching our opponents go through various [more…]
Uncategorized
The Week of the Broken Promise
A week on from the EUref and one would hardly think there had been a vote to Leave the European Union, a vote for Brexit, and all we have been given is a week of [more…]
Elections
Today is Independence Day
The best day of my life.
Democracy
This is OUR Independence Day
Maybe it’s a coincidence or maybe someone who works in distribution at 20th Century Fox has a sly sense of humour, because Independence Day: Resurgence, the sequel to the cheesy 1996 blockbuster, opens in the [more…]