Brexit – Peter Geoghegan

UK discovers Brexit isn’t leaving club….it’s replacing the operating system

By peterPosted on 14th July 201814th July 2018Posted in Brexit, Irish IndependentTagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, ERG, No Deal, Theresa May

For 48 hours, Theresa May looked as if she was in control of her government. Last Friday, Britain’s embattled leader called all her ministers to the bucolic prime ministerial bolt hole at Chequers. The UK cabinet, almost two years to the day of the Brexit referendum, would finally agree a collective position on leaving the […]

We Need to Talk About Towns

By peterPosted on 9th December 2016Posted in Brexit, liberal, New European, TrumpTagged automation, Brexit, cities, Towns, Trump

A week or before the US presidential election, I visited Youngstown in eastern Ohio. On a deserted street corner, across from a bail bondsman and a boarded up shop, an elderly white man explained why he was voting for Donald Trump. “This town used to be something. Now it’s nothing,” he told me. “You guys […]