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Brexit

Empty town centre

Prof Prem Sikka: Income and wealth need to be redistributed and public services rejuvenated

Prem Sikka
17 December, 2021

‘The neoliberal economic policies have increased social tensions but have failed to energise the economy. They have impoverished people and turned town centres into economic deserts.’

El Pais newspaper reacts to the scandal

‘Lost credibility’: Europe reacts to the Downing Street Christmas party fiasco

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 December, 2021

A glance at the European newspapers shows the backlash over the No. 10 Christmas party controversy isn’t confined to British soil.

Northern Ireland

Mike Buckley: Brexit has reintroduced the psychological borders of the past for Northern Ireland

Mike Buckley
9 December, 2021

‘Northern Ireland, so recently freed by a better generation of politicians from the violence that so regularly cost lives and damaged property, cannot afford to go back.’

A photo of a pile of newspapers with the text 'Radical Roundup' overlaid

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, December 2021

Basit Mahmood
1 December, 2021

The news you didn’t see this week…

Olaf Scholz

Expect the new German coalition to push the EU to be tough on law breakers and Brexit

Tony Burke
29 November, 2021

‘Any chance of a softer approach to the Frost/Johnson’s post Brexit game playing and sabre rattling were dashed by the deal which stresses a commitment “to a common European policy’

Young people deprived of opportunities to work in Europe

Seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU battered by Brexit, says travel industry

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
21 November, 2021

Young people’s opportunities to work in temporary jobs in the European Union have been significantly limited by Brexit bureaucracy, businesses in the travel sector reveal.  

UK was not fully prepared for the Covid pandemic

UK government was not adequately prepared for Covid, watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
20 November, 2021

With time and energy lost on Brexit negotiations, the UK was not fully prepared for the pandemic, an independent watchdog has unveiled.

Article 16 threat

Tory threats to EU over Article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol could badly backfire

Tony Burke
10 November, 2021

‘Johnson and Frost are playing a dangerous game. EU watchers are predicting far from sitting back and taking it on the chin the EU may launch immediate action against the UK’

Empty supermarket shelves show the true cost of Brexit

Brexit swipes £17bn off UK trade with EU in 3 months – watchdog finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 November, 2021

A spending watchdog has confirmed the devastating impact Brexit has had on UK trade with Europe.

Eustice brexit

Tory minister mocked after saying he’s ‘quite happy’ about Brexit even though economic impact will be twice as bad as pandemic

Basit Mahmood
29 October, 2021

“George Eustice describes himself as being “quite happy” about Brexit being twice as bad for the U.K. economy as the pandemic. What a time to be alive.”

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