Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Where conspiracies thrive the far right rise!

This deserves reupping, it cannot be overstated. Labour seems fully on track to cock it up completely. I cannot believe that Streeting is even being spoken of a serious contender.

Contrary to Labour MPs saying people ‘hate’ Starmer, I don't hate him and their scape-goating of him misses the point. It is Labour policies and Brexit red lines that are the problem and I see no leadership candidate, indeed no Labour MP addressing that.

Those saying Europe's economy should be like US misunderstand Europe, its values and what works to make lives better. Good explanation below of Europe's strengths and some policies to build on them. UK should be in EU arguing for those things, not outside squabbling with itself.

I'm 56. Racism was everywhere when I was a kid. People just did it, without comment. Normalised. In the 90s political correctness (later: Woke) appeared, and racism withdrew. I'm not saying it vanished. But by 2015, it was socially unacceptable, even in the rough areas I grew up in. Then Brexit.

Like a gut punch, this quietly spoken sentence from Lubaina Himid who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale www.ft.com/content/2a58...

A pregnant pause. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog arguing that the combined effect of the May election results, the next UK-EU summit & the 10th anniversary of the referendum will be to initiate a renewed debate about Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-pr...

Yes, and also the bit that I simply can’t understand is how joining the euro always seems to be presented as a problem for Rejoin, not an opportunity. A chance to join the single currency that has massively enriched its members? You should be biting our arm off.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Artemis ii

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Convos is your everyday chat app for the surveillance age. Available on the App Store. (Android next.) By invitation only. apps.apple.com/us/app/convo...

1/5 The geopolitical calculus of the UK remaining outside the EU no longer makes sense. The world today is vastly different from what it was during the original vote. Continued division poses a severe strategic liability for everyone

Rachel Reeves says Brexit damaged growth and pushed up prices. The reaction from Brexit supporters has been predictably furious. But the real story isn’t the outrage – it’s why Labour is saying this now.

beautiful

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

So the text of the Euro-Gibraltar is out. Quick couple of points to make, and a lesson for UKG Firstly, many have been slammed for saying that the only rational solution is via the Spanish authorities and border guards. All we heard was "Gib will never accept..." 1

Net migration has collapsed even before implementation of draconian Blue Labour policies OBR projections will be shot and fiscal issues worse Need a surcharge to voting for these outcomes - you can hv fewer immigrants but you’ll have to pay a lot more tax as a result www.ft.com/content/7408...

Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP. The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want. The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Mathrooba — Beaten Chicken and Rice — from Lugma: Abundant Dishes & Stories from my Middle East by Noor Murad, a book I adore! And this is the recipe I cook most often. Perfect for Iftar, by the way. www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

Today saw Westminster Hall full with MPs ready to debate Stephen Gethins MP's debate on the impact of the 2016 EU referendum on the UK. Thanks to the 11,000 of you who wrote to your MP to urge them to attend, the debate proved one important thing - we are winning the argument.

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?" From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today: zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

I haven't said so often enough recently, but I'm sure that future historians, poring over why Britain imploded in 2016 will seize on CG's chronicling of the whole sorry story, and all its ramifications as the most thorough and clear sighted analysis in the period itself. Invaluable. A must read.

How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction www.openculture.com/2026/02/how-...

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Some notes on the coming fun with Gibraltar tl;dr There's an agreement, that needs to be in place for 10 April, but no one knows exactly what it is yet 1/

I get so angry with people (the usual suspects) having a go at organisations like the RNLI or National Trust. One claimed that the lifeboats were for the use of English people only. Sorry nothing could be further from the truth. The original resolutions of the Royal National Lifeboat 1/3

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

2/12 There is a reason why Putin, Musk, Trump, Vance, Thiel, and Xi all spend fortunes to attack Brussels. They do not hate the EU because it fails. They hate it because of its potential. Our unity is their nightmare

OPINION: For the U.K. to finally move on from Brexit, it must choose not to live in lies. Especially the ones that fueled the project to leave the EU. 🔗 politi.co/4rJ3NSO

Here's an idea for Starmer: Why not keep the promises he made when he was elected Labour leader? 👌🏻Public ownership 👌🏻Scrapping tuition fees 👌🏻Higher taxes on the wealthy 👌🏻Free movement in the EU This would be a pretty popular platform right now

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

Apparently the CIA has discontinued its “World Factbook”… presumably another senseless Trump destruction. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

sorry to be sentimental but this is the most amazing heartwarming story

Lord Mandelson in disgrace The new Private Eye is out now.

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We'll just let that sink in! #EpsteinFiles #Brexit

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

Classic. Looks like Brexit may be about to take another giant bite of the UK economy because we're out of the EU club at the exact moment the EU's becoming more protectionist as a defence against Trump and China. What's Starmer doing? Dithering and begging. Just rejoin! nitter.net/alexwickham/...

Interestingly cryptic email from Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel, 26 June 2016: "Brexit, just the beginning"

I get the feeling the EU is moving twice as fast as Britain. Which will make Britain rejoining more difficult, but in the same time twice more important to improve our productivity.