UK politics

The security of the UK’s LNG supply is precarious

European economy 23rd September 2021

Gas Price Spike: How UK Government Failures Made A Global Crisis Worse

Michael Bradshow ( The Conversation) | The UK government has been in emergency talks with leaders from the energy industry as gas prices (and with them, electricity prices) have soared to more than four times the level they were at the same time in 2020. Concerns are growing about the security of winter gas supplies, and industries reliant on gas, such as the fertiliser industry, are curtailing production, threatening various…

In Europe 25th July 2019

Memorandum to Boris Johnson

Shaun Riordan | Prime Minister, You enter office in the middle of the UK´s greatest peacetime crisis. Your optimism and can-do spirit are admirable. You will need to be decisive. But your actions need to be based on reality not fantasy, especially in relation to Foreign policy, on which this Memorandum focuses…

In Europe 21st July 2019

Will Boris Johnson Be the New Face of Britain?

Peter Isackson via Fair Observer | Boris Johnson’s march to Downing Street is becoming a surreal, even psychedelic, cartoon hovering between tragedy and farce.

In Europe 15th September 2015

Corbyn’s European context and the challenge to turn popularity into power

LONDON | Much is made of his (self-proclaimed) socialism. Yet, it is more likely that Jeremy Corbyn gathered support not because he is a socialist but in spite of being one.