Why the EU referendum is not legitimate
Last week at the Conservative Party conference Theresa May made three bold statements: The referendum result was clear. It was legitimate. The people gave their answer with [...]
Food for a Brave New World
Kathleen Garnett Over the past year we have seen Chem China merging with Syngenta from Switzerland. We see the two American giants, Dow Chemical and Du Pont looking to tie [...]
Truthiness in Brexit Britain
The title “Truthiness” is borrowed from the comedian Steven Colbart and pretty much sums up the Brexit argument for leaving the EU. Truthiness is based on lots [...]
The Great Pretenders
The one heralds from the EU’s south-eastern periphery and resembles a young, affable history teacher. He harks from the extreme left and represents a country that was once [...]
Moving forward: Silver Linings
Kathleen Garnett For many of us the past few days have been painful. Brexit crushes our hopes and plans and lingers, like a smudge of polluting fume, on the horizon for the [...]
A plague of locusts on the house of BoJo and Farage
How can anyone forget the midsummer madness of 2016? As midnight crept into the early hours of 24th of June and Brits at home and across Europe stayed awake to hear the [...]
A Letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Your Majesty, If I may, your official biographer Robert Lacey, suggests you have asked guests to give you three good reasons why Great Britain should remain in the EU. These [...]
A Letter to the United Kingdom
Over the past couple of weeks, many of us have been engaged in discussions with EU critics; we’ve avidly read opinion pieces and followed referendum chatter on-line. This [...]
Midsummer Madness
Kathleen Garnett We British have a well deserved reputation for our stoic, phlegmatic approach to life. Whether you are a banker in Surrey or a baker in Grimsby, whether you [...]
Meet Pete: Europe’s new economic migrant
Kathleen Garnett Not since the highly popular ITV series from the early 1980’s, “Aufwiedersehen Pet”, have low skilled British workers needed to go in search of jobs [...]
