Brexit

Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

I’ve realised that now I am no longer using Twitter, there is no systematic overview of all the flow diagrams I have made over the years. So this is a post looking back over all the things I have diagrammed,

08.11.2021 Brexit

Labour: a new relationship with the EU

An excellent Twitter thread by Alistair King caught my attention yesterday, critiquing Keir Starmer’s supposed new slogan “make Brexit work”. Meanwhile Andrew Adonis summed it up visually with this: https://x.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1457305792810557440 Aside from the snarky tweet, there is a nugget of

02.08.2021 Brexit

For now, the EU doesn’t have to care about what Brits think of it

This tweet caught my eye this morning: https://x.com/anandMenon1/status/1422097638904762368 My first reaction: why would the EU even care? My second reaction: even if the EU did care, there is nothing the EU can really do about this anyway. And also then,

21.05.2021 Brexit

Brexit. That’s pretty much it from me.

This Twitter thread by Holger Hestermeyer caught my eye yesterday: https://x.com/hhesterm/status/1395469311435841536 Holger is one of those brilliant people who I’ve encountered thanks to Brexit, one of a whole community of people who have painstakingly pointed out all the technical, legal,

14.04.2021 Brexit

The problem when journalists don’t ask the obvious question

Yesterday the European Parliament Conference of Presidents agreed that two Committees – INTA and AFET – would vote on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) this week, but that any decision as to when the plenary of the European

03.03.2021 Brexit

European Parliament: if you take Brexit scrutiny seriously, why not call Frost to give evidence?

Days before the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) finally emerged on Christmas Eve, the European Parliament had already expressed its concern at the process, and refused to be bounced into last minute ratification as the House of Commons was.

24.02.2021 Brexit

Brexit, coordination, leadership and accountability: questions for the EU side too

The elevation of David Frost to Cabinet, and him largely replacing Michael Gove as the UK Government’s coordinator of all things Brexit, understandably generated considerable debate. Jill Rutter penned a piece for UK in a Changing Europe about what we

15.02.2021 Brexit

The personal psychological cost of the consumption of Brexit bullshit

For years on this blog I have painstakingly been documenting the Brexit saga – in more than 50 diagrams and more than 200 blog posts. I don’t know if anyone can really have described themselves as a Brexit expert back

10.02.2021 Brexit

Ratification delay, and avoiding a No Deal Brexit – we’re not yet out of the woods

One of the consequences of leaving it so late – 24 December 2020 – to agree The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was that ratification could not be completed before the Agreement entered into force on 1 January 2021.

05.02.2021 Brexit

The slam-dunk style of modern political digital communication, and missing meaning

Slam dunk. Lambast Michael Gove with a hasty tweet hammered out while drinking my morning coffee. Push the emotional buttons of both Remain people and Scottish pro-Indy people in one go. https://x.com/jonworth/status/1357603739868278784 Impressions: 120k+ (based on Twitter’s Analytics) Retweets: 300+

04.02.2021 Brexit

It is time to wonder: is the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), as drafted, actually going to be ratified?

A question has been on my mind for some time: when is the UK Government going to really begin to do the hard implementation work that is inevitable as a consequence of having signed the Northern Ireland Protocol and the

03.02.2021 Brexit

A little lockdown project: Brexit Geoguessr

My father was a geography teacher, my mother also a geography graduate, and I grew up with a map in my hand. Years ago I discovered a little game called Geoguessr that used Google Maps and Google Street View and