A Global crisis: What about the aftershocks?
Mar 22,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Europe is now facing its first big test following Brexit. The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking the EU structure and putting yet […]
It’s shameful that one in three EU children has been refused permanent residency
These families have made this country their home, yet they are forced to jump through bureaucratic hoops just to have the right to stay here, sometimes the only country they […]
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: UK minister tries to reassure British Overseas Territories over Brexit
Cayman News | 31/01/2020 | (CNS): The UK minister responsible for the British Overseas Territories, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, has issued a statement trying to reassure the BOTs that Britain’s […]
Will British Muslims face expulsion in post-Brexit Britain?
IRFAN RAJA Published 24.01.2020 Daily Sabah All eyes are on Brexit. When Britain finally leaves the European Union, what will happen to ethnic minorities and British Muslims? The Independent […]
The US has sent its warmonger-in-chief to talk trade with Britain – now what could it possibly want in return?
The United States will do what it always does, and act solely in its own interests. It will ask for everything, including absolute subservience, while offering next to nothing in […]
Now Sajid Javid launches his fight for Tory leadership: Home Secretary joins eight other MPs battling to be PM and warns that the party ‘MUST deliver Brexit
Sajid Javid has formally launched his campaign to be next Conservative leader The Home Secretary declared as Tories reel from dire European election results Mr Javid insisted the ‘first and […]
The Windrush scandal makes me fear for the rights of EU citizens after Brexit
The government is currently registering more than three million EU citizens living in the UK, which is by far the biggest change in immigration status for a generation. Unsurprisingly, this is […]
An interview with an Iraqi scholar has led me to think very differently about Brexit and extremism in Europe
‘In Shiasm,’ the great man, Sayed Hakeem, reminds me, ‘the more knowledge a scholar has, the more humble he must be – otherwise he will become a dictator’ Robert FiskNajaf, southern Iraq @indyvoices The […]
Switzerland just overturned a referendum – there’s no reason we can’t do the same
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters The Independent Voices Now that the circumstances have changed, we deserve the right to have our say ( Alamy Live News. ) With […]
There may be no direct comparison, but the ghosts of Northern Ireland’s violent past haunt Brexit
The Protestant politicians of the 1970s and the Tory Brexiteers of today have a common denominator: their fear of ‘betrayal’ and their constant assurance that they are speaking for ‘the people of […]
Article 50 petition to cancel Brexit passes 6m signatures
Milestone hit a day and a half after Britain was originally meant to have left EU Guardian staff Sun 31 Mar 2019 Anti-Brexit activists wave EU flags in Parliament […]
The EU Needs a Brexit Endgame
Jan 31, 2019 Jean Pisani-Ferry PARIS – After 31 months of the United Kingdom and the European Union arguing over Brexit, the truth is that neither side knows what it […]
Queen’s speech calling for ‘common ground’ seen as Brexit allusion
Monarch urges Britons not to miss bigger picture at event for Women’s Institute centenary Caroline Davies Thu 24 Jan 2019 The Queen has called for “common ground” and “never losing […]
Ignorant wishful thinking has harmed our approach to Brexit – much as it did during the Arab Spring
The media scrum around College Green allows a sanitised version of events to rotate though the Westminster bubble Patrick Cockburn @indyworld The Independent Voices In the Arab Spring of 2011 […]
This obscure law could help MPs wriggle out of Theresa May’s Brexit deal deadlock
The ‘Humble Address’ is a Parliamentary mechanism under which MPs can make their desires known directly to the Queen – and they could use it to withdraw Article 50 Philip […]
There’s just been a historic government defeat that increases the chances we’ll stay in the EU
Our chief political commentator explains the significance of tonight’s votes in the House of Commons John Rentoul @JohnRentoul The Independent Voices Theresa May lost three votes tonight, which are […]
Inside Westminster, it’s clear Theresa May’s fate is in the hands of people who are getting sick of her fast
If May survives a confidence vote, she cannot be challenged again for another 12 months. But this rule might persuade some MPs to vote against her now – and they […]
Brexit: UK and EU ‘agree text’ of draft withdrawal agreement
AFP Ministers are to be called in to see the prime minister this evening UK and EU officials have agreed the draft text of a Brexit agreement in […]
Irish passport applications from British applicants skyrocket
Irish passport holders will retain EU travel benefits after Brexit The number of British applications for an Irish passport has boomed following the UK’s vote to leave the European […]
A hundred years ago a ship sunk in the Irish Sea, causing more than 500 deaths – here’s what its legacy can teach us about Brexit
An independent Ireland which deliberately erased its First World War history after its brutal war for freedom has only in recent decades felt able to acknowledge its people’s sacrifice in British uniform by Robert Fisk You’d think that the 100th anniversary of the sinking of a Royal Mail ship – […]
