As Brexit looms, a surge of community organizing from within is bridging political divides and refocusing the British Labour Party.
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Can Brexit Topple the U.K.’s System of Government?
Which takes precedence: The 2016 referendum or the Parliament? (And what if the Parliament can’t take a position?)
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The Brexit Leninists Are Tearing Up Britain’s Political Rulebook
Boris Johnson is shredding Britain’s unwritten conventions of parliamentary democracy—and he faces no real challenge.
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Trump Can Only Envy Boris Johnson
The British prime minister has just pulled off a constitutional coup. He requested the queen to suspend Parliament for about six weeks ahead of the October 31 deadline for a Brexit deal or a no-deal exit from the EU; and since the queen’s consent is a mere formality, Her Majesty complied. This ploy will drastically […]
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Britain’s New Prime Minister Remains a Mystery—Even to Himself
Boris Johnson will have to choose between Brexit revolutionary zeal and political expediency.
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What You Need to Know about Brexit
Can Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn find their way to a solution?
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Britain’s Unlikely Grand Coalition (Don’t Mention the War)
What on Earth are we to make of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s latest Hail Mary pass—her attempt to work with her arch-enemy, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, to save the British economy from crashing out of the EU, and possibly save her own neck. The Brits, unlike the Germans and other continentals, tend to […]
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The Brexit Revolution Devours Its Children
Theresa May is only the latest career politician to be consumed by the Brexit disaster.
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Connecting the Dots in the Catastrophe that is Europe
There is a direct connection between the three core elements of Europe’s deepening calamity. Those would be (a) the failure of the EU leadership to prevent the Greek financial crisis from crippling the EU economy as a whole; (b) the popular backlash in a worsening economy against refugees; and (c) the rise of the far […]
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A Brexit Diary: What Comes Next for Labour?
As gridlock in Parliament mounts, Jeremy Corbyn must find a way to move his leftist agenda to the center of the conversation.