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Richard Nabavi says EU leaders should remember European history

Richard Nabavi says EU leaders should remember European history

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Excessive reparations aren’t a good idea Angela Merkel might not, just at the moment, be giving Brexit her full attention, given the difficulty of converting the results of Germany’s September election into a viable coalition government. Nonetheless, Brexit is a big problem for her and for the other EU27 leaders, and one which cannot simply be ignored. European, and especially German, history has important lessons which they should heed. In 1806, Frederick William III of Prussia went to war against…

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The Electoral Commission’s investigation into Leave’s funding could halt Brexit

The Electoral Commission’s investigation into Leave’s funding could halt Brexit

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The door to an exit from Brexit might just have opened Butterflies are beloved of writers of alternate history and counterfactuals. The notion that but for the eddies created by the meanderings of an individual butterfly, a hurricane would (or would not) have developed is as old as it is misleading; there are many butterflies, there are few hurricanes and there is precious little connection from the one to the other. It’s a curious example of an argument reduced to…

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TMay’s plan to enshrine the Brexit date in law looks set to fail

TMay’s plan to enshrine the Brexit date in law looks set to fail

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The big Brexit bill showdown at Westminster looks set to be TMay’s plan to enshrine the precise date and time of the exit in the Bill that’s going through Parliament at the moment. The Times is reporting that there was a stormy meeting with rebel Tory MPs earlier in the week and that this might have to be toned down even though perhaps 7 Labour MPs could back it. Those against say it would tie the Government’s hand in negotiations….

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The Telegraph front page that has been making the political weather all day

The Telegraph front page that has been making the political weather all day

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MP Anna Soubry receives threatening tweets after being branded 'Brexit mutineer https://t.co/HmJj6rnbTT — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2017 PB’s David Herdson hit the nail on the head Is this the same Daily Telegraph that's headquartered in Jersey (not in the UK) and owned by tax exiles? https://t.co/ExyEVugKMP — David Herdson (@DavidHerdson) November 15, 2017

Now it’s being established that Russia did interfere with EURef what next?

Now it’s being established that Russia did interfere with EURef what next?

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Big Times story on the huge Russian social media effort to influence the Brexit referendumhttps://t.co/NE7FwmPvhh pic.twitter.com/REdGjjRgOZ — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 15, 2017 At some stage it might be argued that this undermines the validity of the result In the US the objective of those trying to examine the Russian impact on their Presidential election a year ago is clear – to undermine and possibly get rid of Trump. Whether they succeed or not will be dominate the political narrative…

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Sir Robert Peel and the Corn Laws – the ghost that haunts Theresa May

Sir Robert Peel and the Corn Laws – the ghost that haunts Theresa May

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There is a way to avoid a Crash Brexit – but it’ll destroy May, her party and trust All parties of any age have ghosts that haunt them: spectres from disasters of the past so great that they dare not be forgotten yet dare not be truly remembered either. Indeed, they may not really be remembered in detail at all; their legacy today lying not in memory or even mythology but in the culture and behaviour that evolved to ward…

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