[Thanks so much to Erik for his kind intro and the rest of you for your welcome messages. For the record: anti-ketchup, all the way. Don't get me started on mayonnaise.] This we know: 2016 was awful. But now that the year has turned, it’s...
Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn chairs a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet (a meme that did the rounds yesterday) Seeing as how it's Labour, the obvious choice is to hit.
Politico has this, which I encountered this morning. It's the usual behind-the-scenes sort of thing. As a Labour Party member / activist / whatever, the following piques my interest: Senior staff.
Good morning, newly sovereign Britain and welcome to your new leadership team! We had Blair-Brown, then Cameron-Osborne, and now we'll enjoy Prime Minister Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rubble. Unlike yesterday's immediate reaction post, this one is written on 24 hours of sleep uh, written 24...
So, that didn't work. On several levels; one of which is illustrated by the photo above. That's LGM's Senior Correspondent on British Politics holding the sign. While British politics suddenly.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. It's a significant improvement from my freaking out a week ago today, and I've further downgraded the threat level from cautiously.
I've been sitting on this article in Foreign Policy for a few days. It is one of the better articulations in defense of continued UK membership of the European Union that I've seen. It makes a lot of the points I want to make, and...
An academic who has lived and worked in the UK for the past 18 years, originally from an EU country (possibly Germany) published this in the Guardian yesterday. It deserves to.
The misinformation distributed by the Leave campaign has reached a new level of surreal. During a debate last night on the BBC which featured six speakers (three for remain, three.
A couple days ago an American friend posted this to an email list we're on (original purpose: beer geekery) and requested some commentary. I had read it that morning, so I sent the list some assessment. (For the record, this request for commentary was made not...
A recent poll (10 June) estimated that 44% of those who voted Labour in the 2015 General Election will support Brexit. This was perhaps the poll that began the general.
On Friday afternoon, I was interviewed by BBC Radio Devon about calls for increased security for MPs in the wake of the Jo Cox murder. It can be found here.