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€21.95 to make your webinars a whole lot better

27.11.2020 1 comment

I had to move flat in the middle of the Coronavirus lockdowns in Berlin and one of my aims for my new workplace in the new flat was that it would all be set up as well as possible for webinars – as a massive part of my work life […]

Brexit

Brexit negotiation delay – is it due to indecision, or is it by design?

22.11.2020 9 comments

As one of my sarcastic Twitter followers put it, are these Brexit negotiations sponsored by Microsoft Windows Autoupdate as they’ve been stuck on 95% for so long? Deadlines come and go. Even the supposedly firm one, EU side, at the European Council video call last Thursday, was not respected. As […]

Brexit

Brexit: where there is no consequence for those supposedly in control

13.11.2020 1 comment

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters” Donald Trump famously said. Unlike the United States, British politics and society generally shies away from arms. But a sense of deep denial, and politics without consequence, seems the same. “I could […]

Brexit

1 man. 7 days. Deal or No Deal Brexit. And yes, that man is Johnson.

12.11.2020 0 comments

There is scarcely a twist or turn in the Brexit story over the past 18 months I have not charted in my Brexit diagrams. The rationale is the same now as it was when I started: to work out what is really important for the next steps of Brexit, and […]

Brexit

The Internal Market Bill and Brexiters still unable to face the Brexit Trilemma

10.11.2020 6 comments

On 8 September Brandon Lewis uttered the now famous words: that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill would “break international law in a very specific and limited way”. That set in train a series of events that even now, two months later, have framed the discussion about that Bill as […]

UK Politics

Starmer’s steady stability – I’m not sure this is enough

28.09.2020 3 comments

Back in April when he was first elected, I wondered how Keir Starmer – an essentially normal politician – would manage as leader of the UK Labour Party in extraordinary political times. Now we are starting to find out, and the picture is a mixed one. At one level all […]

Technology

Fixing persistent WordPress image upload problems – and saving some disk space too

28.09.2020 0 comments

For months this blog has been beset by a problem. Every time I upload an image I would receive the error: Post-processing of the image failed. If this is a photo or a large image, please scale it down to 2500 pixels and upload it again. Scaling it down, or […]

EU Politics

“How to Work with the EU Institutions” – a book chapter, and the online launch event

16.09.2020 0 comments

I might have been happily blogging away here for the last fifteen years, and in the meantime racking up enough words to publish a few books, but I have never had the confidence or the sticking power to actually write a book myself. Now at least I have managed the […]

Brexit

#BrexitDiagram Series 5 – Trade Deal or No Deal by the end of 2020?

15.09.2020 5 comments

For the past week I have had an awful sense of déjà vu. Shenanigans in the House of Commons about Brexit. Rumours about removal of the whip from Tory MPs should they rebel on votes. And the threat of No Deal. It feels like the autumn of 2019 all over […]

Brexit

Now we have seen the UK’s Internal Market Bill, the EU should walk away

09.09.2020 19 comments

(Please read this post as me giving my view on what the EU should do, for the sake of the EU. I am trying to set my view as a Brit for whom all of this has some minor personal implications to one side.) Yesterday Brandon Lewis said in the […]

Brexit

“Germany scraps plans for Brexit talks at EU ambassadors summit” Well, sort of.

27.08.2020 2 comments

I think this story in this morning’s Guardian (front page in the printed edition as well – but with a different title – more about that below) about Brexit is overblown. I tweeted as much late last night, but got a load of critique back this morning, so let’s take […]

UK Politics

UK politics: not normal

25.08.2020 0 comments

A Minister who had presided over a fiasco as major as Gavin Williamson has with the A-Level results algorithm problems would – in normal times – have either resigned or been sacked. A Special Adviser who had admitted a major breach of lockdown rules would – in normal times – […]

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Recent Posts

€21.95 to make your webinars a whole lot better

Brexit negotiation delay – is it due to indecision, or is it by design?

Brexit: where there is no consequence for those supposedly in control

1 man. 7 days. Deal or No Deal Brexit. And yes, that man is Johnson.

The Internal Market Bill and Brexiters still unable to face the Brexit Trilemma

Starmer’s steady stability – I’m not sure this is enough

Fixing persistent WordPress image upload problems – and saving some disk space too

“How to Work with the EU Institutions” – a book chapter, and the online launch event

#BrexitDiagram Series 5 – Trade Deal or No Deal by the end of 2020?

Now we have seen the UK’s Internal Market Bill, the EU should walk away

“Germany scraps plans for Brexit talks at EU ambassadors summit” Well, sort of.

UK politics: not normal

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German coalition squabbles reach Brussels – but it’s Scholz who’s deficient here, not really the Greens or the FDP

Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

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A social network not having administrative responsibility for account verification has upsides

Ursula von der Leyen – now officially on Bluesky (and some lessons so you can trust what you read on that network)

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Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

Labour: a new relationship with the EU

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European Commission, why should anyone be led by you? You’re not really leaders if you’re still on Twitter/X

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Turning any complicated process into a flow diagram

Runners and riders to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory Leader (and Prime Minister)