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Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major made his views on Brexit crystal clear, calling it “a colossal mistake” during a Westminster Committee meeting. He argued that Britain was safer and better off inside the European Union and urged for our return.

An emboldened President Trump in his second term has brazenly announced that he wants to own Gaza, Greenland and the Panama Canal. Might he also have eyes on our NHS in a USA-UK trade agreement? Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer believes he can strike trade deals with both Trump and the EU. But surely he […]

On 31 January 2025, the fifth anniversary of Britain leaving the EU, the Daily Express front page featured a message from Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, claiming that a real Brexit had ‘not been delivered.’ He insisted: ‘We now need people in charge to deliver the Brexit we voted for’

In February 2016, I phoned James O’Brien’s LBC radio show to express my frustration with the upcoming EU referendum, declaring: “If we leave the EU, I’ll want my continent back.” At the time, Prime Minister David Cameron was attempting to renegotiate the UK’s terms of EU membership ahead of the June referendum.

On 1 February 2017, MPs faced a critical vote on whether to proceed with Brexit by triggering Article 50 – the formal notice to leave the EU. In the second reading of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, a resounding 498 MPs voted in favour. But 114 took a stand and voted against.

Kirsty Warner | 21 January 2025  From the 7th to the 9th of October, I had the opportunity to visit the European House of History in Brussels, a trip that marked a significant step in gathering material for my chapter, Museums and the Evolution of European (Union) Identity Construction (1970–2024), part of the upcoming book […]

As both a researcher and a policymaker, I am often confronted with the challenge of bridging the gap between these two worlds. While academia and policy serve different purposes, they are intricately connected and have much to offer one another. The UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) Doctoral Training Academy (DTA) in Prague gave […]

Our political leaders in the UK often point to the 17.4 million people who voted for Leave on a single summer’s day – 23 June 2016 – as the enduring mandate for Brexit. But is that still a valid justification?

After the Holocaust of the Second World War, during which many millions were systematically, industrially, gruesomely murdered in the worst genocidal crime against humanity, the earnest, global, unison cry was: ‘Never again’

Which way is the wind blowing for little Britain? Little? Yes. We are a tiny, isolated, island in a corner of the North Sea, now quite alone in the world, lost, and lonely.