Steve Anglesey
20 July 2024
The war against tethered bottle caps
They help the environment, but Brexiteers hate them because the idea came from the EU
Read the full article12 July 2024
Never mind the football.. let’s celebrate the end of Brexit omerta
Labour’s first steps at moving closer to the EU are welcome, and vital to counter Nigel Farage
Read the full article05 July 2024
Were you up for Rees-Mogg?
A raft of big-name Brexiteers lost their seats as Labour won a landslide victory
Read the full article04 July 2024
The nightmare is over
Fourteen years of Conservative disasters come to an end as Keir Starmer prepares to enter No.10
Read the full article04 July 2024
The big 2024 election quiz
How much do you remember about the campaign? Take our test and find out…
Read the full article29 June 2024
Why Nigel Farage will become a recruiting sergeant for a new EU referendum
Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago
Read the full article12 June 2024
Au revoir, Françoise Hardy
The iconic French singer has died after a long battle against cancer
Read the full article07 June 2024
Nigel Farage doesn’t want to talk about the disaster of Brexit
Reform’s leader wants to campaign on immigration instead of his pet project’s failure
Read the full article01 June 2024
Have the Mail papers given up on the election and Brexit?
Instead of the Tory demise, they’re talking Geri Halliwell and Lord Lucan
Read the full article24 May 2024
Will Britain punish Brexiteer MPs at the election?
Leaving the EU won’t be a campaign issue for the big parties - but voters may think differently
Read the full article16 May 2024
Brexit’s part in the Co-Op Live fiasco
The new arena is a Great British Failure - just like leaving the EU
Read the full article11 May 2024
Brexiteers are blaming the EU for wrecking their holidays
The comical hypocrisy of right wing panic over new border schemes
Read the full article04 May 2024
Could there be a new referendum in 2024?
Sir John Curtice has laid out a convincing case for why Keir Starmer may be drawn into backing one soon
Read the full article03 May 2024
More than a little local difficulty
A disastrous set of elections leave the Tories facing an existential crisis
Read the full article27 April 2024
Power, corruption, lies and Brexit
New Order’s Bernard Sumner has nailed the problem with British politics
Read the full article20 April 2024
The Brexiteers’ retreat to abstract waffle shows they have failed
Leavers used to promise real achievements if we quit the EU - now they deal only in abstract concepts
Read the full article19 April 2024
Hope, cowardice and the EU’s youth mobility plan
A new offer is profoundly sensible - no wonder Labour and the Tories have rejected it
Read the full article12 April 2024
The Daily Mail’s fishy tale about Brexit Britain’s exports
Has leaving the EU really led to a long-term trade boom?
Read the full article05 April 2024
Should we feel sorry for Rishi Sunak?
The prime minister is locked into a political tragedy - but it is one of his own making
Read the full article29 March 2024
The Brexit battleground to watch is Scotland
The SNP are using a new referendum as a wedge issue in their fight against Labour
Read the full article23 March 2024
Raving Maddox: A shock transfer for one of Fleet Street’s key Brexiteers
The Independent has signed the Daily Express’s political editor, noted for his entertaining predictions
Read the full article16 March 2024
Close, but no cigar: The hole at the middle of Labour’s new EU strategy
Keir Starmer believes a defence agreement will open up more possibilities. But how quickly?
Read the full article10 March 2024
Brexit is bad for bees… and your stomach
The UK has again approved the use of a bee-killing pesticide that is banned in the EU
Read the full article01 March 2024
Wonka fans were promised magic and wonder but got an empty warehouse. Remind you of anything?
There are remarkable parallels between the flop interactive experience and Brexit
Read the full article24 February 2024
Liz Truss is back, and her delusion knows no bounds
Sorry continues to be the hardest word as the former PM rounds on the deep state
Read the full article17 February 2024
As Britain’s bad economic news mounts, all the Brexiteers can cry is, “But what about Germany?”
Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own
Read the full article09 February 2024
The French have found a good use for Britain’s dead Brexit
PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign
Read the full article03 February 2024
‘No regrets’ say the Brexiteers… but here’s a small business that thinks otherwise
While Rees-Mogg and Leadsom celebrate leaving the EU, a deli owner speaks out about the extra cost of red tape
Read the full article31 January 2024
Monsieur Spade: a dark knight returns
In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France
Read the full article26 January 2024
As a new Tory war begins, Kemi Badenoch has let the Brexit cat out of the bag
The row over divergence from EU standards has exposed the myth of “Brexit freedoms”
Read the full article20 January 2024
The Rwanda rebellion’s collapse shows the Tory party no longer trust Brexiteers
Why else back a prime minister who trails in the last eight polls by an average of 19 points?
Read the full article11 January 2024
Sadiq Khan shows why Starmer’s Brexit caution is misguided
London's mayor has broken the omerta, and politics is the better for it
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