Asked why the prime minister was not making the analysis public, a DExEU source told BuzzFeed News: "Because it's embarrassing."
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Australia has had five prime ministers in five years, the poor yanks look as though they'll have to choose between two options both of which have more disapproval than approval, and the UK leaves the EU. It seems like a ridiculous amount of instability. One might even call it absurd. But it's not su…
Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
[F]or many years, not just the post-World War II era but also the colonial era, governments saw one of their chief roles as being the creation and protection of markets for large companies (which in turn employed large amounts of the governments' citizens). My question at a very fundamental level is…
Remember, everything is a system. And, given the changes wrought by the post 1970s wave of globalization, it is foolish to think that a core component of society — labor — can be fundamentally changed without there being knock-on effects on the other components of that system.
By choosing ‘leave,’ British voters demonstrated an unfortunate short-sightedness about how the world is changing and how hard it will be for any country with global ambitions to go it alone. With Brexit, both the U.K. and Europe are losing a lot more than a partnership. They're losing their best ch…
The varied nations of Europe understood that they'd be much stronger if they forged a common market with shared institutions and even a regional currency, the euro, than if they tried to compete as independent units... As a whole, the EU should in theory wield significant power in pressing Beijing t…
We are not on Facebook, where things are complicated. We are married or divorced but not something in between.
I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being s…
The big mistakes were the adoption of the euro without careful thought about how a single currency would work without a unified government; the disastrous framing of the euro crisis as a morality play brought on by irresponsible southerners; the establishment of free labor mobility among culturally…
It seems clear that the European project – the whole effort to promote peace and growing political union through economic integration – is in deep, deep trouble.
Well, that was pretty awesome – and I mean that in the worst way. A number of people deserve vast condemnation here, from David Cameron, who may go down in history as the man who risked wrecking Europe and his own nation for the sake of a momentary political advantage, to the seriously evil editors…
Indeed, Japan is the place where a Brexit vote might lead to an imminent reaction. The yen touched Y100/$ overnight, a strengthening that will not be welcome in Tokyo, where the economy is weak and deflationary pressures remain. The Bank of Japan may be contemplating a response.
History doesn't always move forward.
The sad irony of all this is that the E.U. was built to prevent the very kind of nationalist fervor its economic mismanagement and political heavy-handedness are provoking now. The dustbin of history exists for a reason. And yet, and yet. It's easy for a generation that has only known peace and rela…
Right-wing populists like Pat Buchanan in the United States, Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Jörg Haider in Austria had scored surprising near-victories, if not actual ones, in the late 1990s and early 2000s by focusing the working class's incipient ire on a "foreign" enemy besides outsourcing: immi…
Fraternity is better, and bridges are better than walls.
‘This is a dark day,’ he said. ‘But I hold out hope that, come November, Americans could become dumber than us once more.
We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of a…
It was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded and it is they who will suffer most in the short term from the dearth of jobs and investment. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.