2018: annus horribilis aut mirabilis?
2017 hasn’t been a great year in most respects, but to a large extent it hasn’t really been that bad,
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Brexit
Brexit is still an unknown unknown
As we all know, back in 2002 the United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said this: Reports that say
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Brexit will be great – for the Brexiteers
Many people seem to think that the Brexit process is being led by a bunch of idiots. If only. Most
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Brexit: Choosing between the plague and cholera
“To choose between the plague and cholera” (“at vælge mellem pest og kolera”) is a Danish idiom, which basically expresses
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If you see disaster coming, it’s your duty to avert it
Pete Wishart has written an article in The National today, which rather puzzled me. In it he writes this: Brexit
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Why we’re in a hurry
History seems to develop in sudden bursts (the punctuated equilibrium theory) – nothing happens for decades, and suddenly everything changes
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The leaked paper: What will Scotland do?
The Home Office’s leaked paper on EU citizens was sadly rather predictable. They clearly want to deal with EU citizens
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