The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century
In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party
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Tories
Will you stop fighting, children! I want unity!
Theresa May seems to hate dissent. She wanted to push through Brexit without parliamentary approval, and she was happy to
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Oh, so you won’t allow it, Theresa?
Theresa May seems to have said today she’s decided to prevent Scotland from holding a new independence referendum until Brexit
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Brexit shock therapy
Ever since the Brexit referendum, I’ve kept thinking that the hard Brexit plans surely must be due to a lack
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Borders, ID cards and databases
Different countries use different means to ensure everybody and their dog don’t just turn up and use their services (such
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I wish I had a time machine
I’m half Danish, half German. I grew up in Denmark (before flitting to Scotland when I was 30), but of
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Abandon ship!
Do you remember when the Coalition government got into power in 2010 and introduced austerity because the UK’s finances apparently
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