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
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Starmer’s steady stability – I’m not sure this is enough
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
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Fixing persistent WordPress image upload problems – and saving some disk space too
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
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“How to Work with the EU Institutions” – a book chapter, and the online launch event
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
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#BrexitDiagram Series 5 – Trade Deal or No Deal by the end of 2020?
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
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Now we have seen the UK’s Internal Market Bill, the EU should walk away
(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
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“Germany scraps plans for Brexit talks at EU ambassadors summit” Well, sort of.
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
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UK politics: not normal
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
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jonworth.eu – my European online identity since 7th April 2006 – and now this blog is even an award nominee
For the past 14 years, jonworth.eu has been my online identity. It’s the URL of this blog, the hub for all I do online. Even as blogging in the traditional sense has diminished, my blog has still accompanied me through
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“World-leading” as a framing device in the UK Government’s communication
So the UK Government is at it again. Sunak has announced a “world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions” https://x.com/RishiSunak/status/1279876376305242113 This follows hot on the heels of a Johnson’s “world-beating” Coronavirus track and trace system,
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How to find a flat in Berlin – the sequel
When I moved to Berlin in 2013 I needed to find a flat. I used a blog entry to help with my search, and wrote up my search experiences in the blog post “How To Find a Flat In Berlin”
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If Labour were to have a position on Brexit in the UK right now, what should it be?
Even the original timetable for Brexit was ridiculously tight – out by the end of March 2019, and then the future relationship to be concluded 21 months later, by the end of December 2020. Remember that trade negotiations with third
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