We Could Be Heroes: from Brexit to the Blitz
- February 26, 2019
- by
- Matt
History has played a big part in the national torment that we’ve been going through for the last two and half years. Social media and more mainstream political discourse alike are awash with facile historical references and comparisons, between Dunkirk and WTO rules, between the EU and Hitler, Napoleon, or the Soviet Union.
At times it feels we’re living in a looped mash up of Blackadder and Horrible Histories mixed with Pathé News clips.
Many of these references return invariably to World War 2, usually from Brexiters, who like to remind us that we survived the...
Our Man in Slovenia
- February 24, 2019
- by
- Matt
If the behaviour of British diplomats these last two and a half years is anything to go by, the UK may not be taking the giant strides across the world stage that Brexit visionaries seem to think it should. Take foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt’s visit to Slovenia last week. Showing all the intellectual gravitas of...
Cracking Up: Brexit and the Seven Dwarves
- February 19, 2019
- by
- Matt
Fans of Titanic and other disaster movies will know what to expect from the genre. In the first part of the movie the characters go about their business oblivious to what is about to happen. They might be in an office building, a ship, a submarine, an oil rig or any other structure that the...
All the Devils Are Here
- February 09, 2019
- by
- Matt
It’s been a hell of a week, hasn’t it? It’s fine for us to compare the EU to Hitler, the Soviet Union, the mafia, and a dictatorship. It’s ok to accuse the EU of torturing us by ‘administering punishment beatings’, as the sixth form yob who bizarrely became our last foreign secretary once declared.
It was...
Parliament Passes the Bomb
- January 30, 2019
- by
- Matt
Some of you may remember the family game called Pass the Bomb. For those haven’t played it, the rules are simple: You pass a ticking bomb back and forth between the group and try to make sure you aren’t the one holding it when it ‘explodes’.
This is what parliament did yesterday, in a monumental dereliction...
Brexit: The Stab-in-the-Back
- January 24, 2019
- by
- Matt
It’s now becoming increasingly clear, even to its most ardent defenders, that Brexit is not going swimmingly. Having inflicted the most comprehensive parliamentary defeat ever inflicted on a British prime minister, parliament is in a state of fevered chaos, with MPs frantically trying to prevent the country from sliding towards no deal, yet unable to...
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