Time’s up for Brexit: no-deal on the horizon
Illustrations by Hannah Robinson Brexit means Brexit. It increasingly appears as if it is also synonymous with ‘no deal’. The announcement this week from Brussels and London that no deal is very likely, is very…
The youth of today: the Conservatives’ latest scapegoat
Illustrations by Hannah Robinson The Tories seem to have found their scapegoat for the seemingly “inevitable” second wave of Covid-19. Young people. Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, has said that the…
Stopping Brexit is essential to solving the climate crisis
This week I joined thousands of marchers, striking pupils and students in Edinburgh as part of the global youth climate crisis strikes. The comparison between the millions of protestors worldwide…
Boris Johnson is right to prorogue Parliament: no-deal must be kept on the table
Not since King Charles I has a person invoked such collective disdain from Parliament. While the outcome of this odd arc, taking place over the course of the final season…
Impatient determination will see us leave with no-deal
So, this is it. After formerly arguing that the chances of a no-deal Brexit were “a million to one”, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has now asserted that the outlook…