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So, here’s the key question: Who actually made the decision for the UK to leave the EU? It wasn’t the referendum.

1) Scholarly Interest in Russian Emigrees  The immigration politics across Europe receive a greater actuality in the context of Russia’s full-fledged invasion in Ukraine.  The war prompted mass forced emigration not only from Ukraine, where the mass destruction takes place, but also from Russia, where repressions take various forms, as I demonstrated in my recently […]

Abstract  This article revisits the productivity paradox in the context of the European Union’s (EU) digital transformation, exploring the intersection of responsible innovation (RI) and productivity growth. The analysis is guided by two pivotal questions: how regulatory frameworks promoting RI influence productivity in the digital economy, and whether traditional productivity metrics effectively capture RI’s broader […]

Those paying attention have seen this coming for years. Britain does not have enough skilled workers to meet Labour’s ambitious target of building 1.5 million homes over the next five years.

A vote for Brexit was a vote for Putin. Since the 2016 EU referendum, evidence has mounted that Russian interference helped secure the narrow ‘Leave’ victory. By weakening the EU and sowing division, Brexit played into Vladimir Putin’s hands while delivering no tangible benefits to Britain.

Brexiters claim the EU is run by unelected bureaucrats. It’s untrue. The EU is a democracy, run by elected politicians. By comparison, the UK seems more like a quasi-democracy, with unelected decision-makers and undemocratic practises that would be considered despotic by EU standards.

After 14 years of Conservative rule, many of us longed for real change – a fresh start, a true alternative to austerity, inequality, and broken promises. But now that Labour is in government, it doesn’t feel like Labour at all. It feels more Tory.

I support the European Union, believing it has been a force for good. However, it is far from perfect, and transparency issues continue to cast doubt on its leadership. I want the UK to rejoin the EU because I believe that to be in Britain’s – and Europe’s – best interests. But that doesn’t mean […]

Labour is trying to counter the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform party by adopting a tough stance on migration. But in doing so, it risks reinforcing Reform’s anti-immigrant agenda rather than diminishing its appeal.

Eurosceptics often claim to love Europe but hate the European Union, insisting Britain can be part of Europe without EU membership. While technically true, this perspective misses the EU’s fundamental purpose. The European Economic Community – later the EU – was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War with a clear goal: to […]