By LSE authors
GalleryBook Review: Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe can be Saved from Itself by Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolo Milanese
In Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe can be Saved from Itself, Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolo Milanese offer an innovative look at citizenship, grounded in the development of a transnational civil society sphere across Europe. This is an ambitious, perceptive and clear-sighted argument for a transnational citizenship and politics, writes Ben Margulies, that also details the political project required to make it a reality.
Citizens of Nowhere: […]
GalleryOnly a new unity government can effectively avert a no-deal Brexit
If the UK is not to crash out of the European Union with no deal, Jonathan Boston (LSE) argues that the previous one-party political control of the executive will need to be temporarily suspended. There is a clear majority view of the House of Commons that any withdrawal from the EU must be an agreed and orderly one, with clear succession […]
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Permalink Michelle O'Connell via a CC-BY-NC 2.0 licence" />GalleryTo deal or not to deal: these are the questions
Michelle O'ConnellTo deal or not to deal: these are the questions
Why is the new government prepared to countenance no deal, when it would be so damaging to Britain? Iain Begg (LSE) says the question is not whether but how much it would harm the country.
To judge by the early pronouncements of the Johnson government, a ‘no-deal’ Brexit is not only worth contemplating, but could well occur. Although both sides […]
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Permalink frattaglia via a CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 licence" />GalleryLong read: Post-Brexit trade policy must serve British society, not just free trade
frattagliaLong read: Post-Brexit trade policy must serve British society, not just free trade
Brexit provides an opportunity to agree new Economic Partnership Agreements with the world’s largest economies such as the US, China, and India. These cannot make up for the trade it will lose through leaving the Single Market, according to Swati Dhingra (CEP & LSE) and Josh De Lyon (CEP). Nevertheless, the UK has an opportunity to forge a new […]
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Permalink Steve Lilley via a CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence" />GalleryDon’t be fooled: the last thing Johnson wants is a no-deal Brexit
Steve LilleyDon’t be fooled: the last thing Johnson wants is a no-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson’s tack to no deal is aimed at neutralising the threat from the Brexit Party and triggering a general election, argues Dimitri Zenghelis (LSE). Whatever the outcome of that election, he can avoid the terminal damage that a no-deal exit would inflict on his premiership.
Last month, I argued that as Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have no interest in a […]
GalleryBrexit Britain’s Trumpian moment?
Boris Johnson’s adoption of a No-Deal exit as a viable policy option can only be described as Brexit Britain’s Trumpian moment, writes John Ryan (LSE).
US President Donald Trump told a crowd in Washington: ‘Boris is good. They call him Britain Trump.‘ German English-language service Deutsche Welle published an article with the title ‘Boris Johnson’s clowning glory‘. Seen as Donald Trump’s boastful […]
GalleryPost-2016 Britain faces a generation of constraining dissensus
Modern British politics is usually dated to either 1945 or 1979, both years symbolising generational resets that created new consensuses in British politics. As Tim Oliver (University of Loughborough) explains, 2016 is the new year by which British politics is dated. But instead of a new consensus, post-2016 Britain faces a generation of constraining dissensus.
The Conservative party leadership race, and Boris […]
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Permalink European and Rijksmuseum. Public domain" />Gallery‘She’s dead of course!’ The British constitution, Brexit and human rights
European‘She’s dead of course!’ The British constitution, Brexit and human rights
The flexibility of the British constitution, once thought to be such a strength, has played a large part in destroying the country. In this edited version of a recent lecture delivered in Cambridge, Conor Gearty (LSE) explains why he now believes more than ever that only the experience of no-deal will bring Britain to its senses.
‘There was an old lady […]
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Permalink G20 Argentina via a CC BY 2.0 licence" />GalleryNo deal is not in Johnson’s interest. The threat of a second referendum might be
G20 ArgentinaNo deal is not in Johnson’s interest. The threat of a second referendum might be
For Boris Johnson, writes Dmitri Zenghelis (LSE), survival trumps principle every time. That means he has nothing to gain from a no-deal outcome. If he becomes PM, he may even make it clear that the price of another defeat for May’s deal in Parliament would be a second referendum – something Brexiteers will not want to risk.
Boris Johnson, Britain’s […]
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Permalink James West via a CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence" />GalleryDid we ever really understand how the EU works?
James WestDid we ever really understand how the EU works?
Despite its long membership, Britain has seriously failed to grasp the way the EU works, writes N Piers Ludlow (LSE). Many of the stickiest points in the Brexit negotiations, including the Northern Ireland backstop and the decision to trigger Article 50 so early, reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how the bloc operates.
The United Kingdom ought to have started the Brexit […]
