Despite the tough talk in the Queen’s Speech, the UK’s position at the Brexit negotiating table has been weakened. If the results of the British general election revived hope of mitigating Brexit, the long-awaited Queen’s Speech in Parliament...
If Europe’s economic situation fails to improve, the far right will be waiting to pounce again with their easy answers: nationalism and racism. The good news out of Europe is that Marine Le Pen’s neo-Nazi National Front took a beating in the...
Most researchers and experts believe that populist parties and politicians peddling “alternative facts” will ultimately disappoint their supporters. Researchers and policy analysts fear the rise of an era in which expert evidence and advice are...
It would be naive to think that the divorce between the UK and the EU will not leave scars. If one reviews European history over the period since the Reformation 500 ago, the role that England has sought to play in Europe has been that of holding...
If an entire system is heading toward a cliff, there’s no better brake than bureaucracy. The two events that put 2016 in the history books — alongside other pivotal years such as 2001, 1989 and 1945 — were, of course, the Brexit vote in the...
