How Brexit Made Britain European
Keir Starmer is just the latest victim of a political reality created by Brexit—one that has, counterintuitively, turned Britain into a European country.
Luke Hallam
· 5 min read
Brexit
A collection of 19 posts
A Half-Serious Man
Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Brexit and The Voice: Two Ill-Conceived Referenda
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a grave error of judgement. If he had paid more attention to the polarisation created by Brexit, he might have done things differently.
Helen Pluckrose
· 12 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 14 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Listen onSpotify Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
PODCAST 51: Carl Gardner on Britain's Constitutional Crisis
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Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 46 – Toby Young on Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister
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Quillette
· 1 min read
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion.
Toby Young
· 20 min read
The Impressive Record of Theresa May
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
Tal Tyagi
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast 35 – Eric Kaufmann and Sunder Katwala Discuss the European Election Results
Listen onSpotify Toby Young discusses the European election results with Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift, and Sunder Katwala, director of British Future. Is national populism in decline? If not, how concerned should we be? Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, wrote about the European election for Quillette.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 30 – Ex-Communist Claire Fox on why she's standing as a Brexit Party candidate for the European Parliament
Listen onSpotify Toby Young talks to the journalist and broadcaster Claire Fox about being a Brexit Party candidate in the forthcoming European Parliament election. How did a former Communist become a candidate for a populist, right-of-centre party?
Quillette, Claire Fox
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 25 – Professor Robert Tombs on Why the English Intelligentsia Hates Brexit
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Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 16 – Matthew Goodwin on Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism
Listen onSpotify Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant
In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement.
Oliver Conolly
· 7 min read
The Case Against a Second EU Referendum
If one referendum isn’t enough to resolve the matter, why would two be enough?
Madeline Grant
· 11 min read