The UK's island identity has long shaped its political outlook – is that why it currently feels so adrift?
@guardian 2 years ago
British empire attitudes played part in Brexit vote, says Nobel laureate https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/28/british-empire-brexit-vote-nobel-laureate-abdulrazak-gurnah?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1653742522
@spiegel.de 2 years ago
Großbritannien: Erster Handelsvertrag seit Brexit geschlossen - mit Australien
@theguardian.com 4 years ago
UK more nostalgic for empire than other ex-colonial powers
@n-tv.de 4 years ago
Brexit "dumm und frustrierend": Thriller-Autor Lee Child will Ire werden
@rt.com 5 years ago
‘Don’t give up!’ Tusk urges Brits to keep fighting to stop Brexit, otherwise it’s the ‘end of the British Empire’
@theguardian.com 5 years ago
Brexit will leave UK a 'second-rate player', says Donald Tusk – video
@welt.de 5 years ago
Johnson schiebt Merkel den Schwarzen Peter zu
@theatlantic.com 5 years ago
Britain’s Contradictory Brexit Myths
@TheNewEuropean 5 years ago
"Far from being the saviours of the Brexit cause, they may come to reveal its ultimate hollowness, and that the Empire to which the Brexiteers so often allude is well and truly dead." https://buff.ly/2KcScJF
@spiegel.de 5 years ago
Oxford Professor on Brexit's Colonial Roots: 'The Empire Was Celebrated as A Great Thing'
Brexit: how the end of Britain's empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory
@welt.de 5 years ago
„Wie ein Empire, das es schon lange nicht mehr gibt“
@guardian 5 years ago
Only Brexit could inspire this cynical, lost empire vision of Commonwealth | Peter Beaumont https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/18/commonwealth-leaders-brexit-cynical-lost-empire-vision-peter-beaumont
@guardian 5 years ago
Only Brexit could inspire this cynical, lost empire vision of Commonwealth | Peter Beaumont https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/18/commonwealth-leaders-brexit-cynical-lost-empire-vision-peter-beaumont
@rt.com 5 years ago
Unearthed VIDEO of Corbyn trashing EU for treatment of Ireland seized upon by his Brexit critics
@rt.com 5 years ago
British Empire 2.0? Defence Sec vows to put UK bases in Caribbean & Asia in post-Brexit expansion
@guardian 6 years ago
Empire 2.0: the fantasy that's fuelling Tory divisions on Brexit https://trib.al/XlK44RU
@thedailybeast.com 6 years ago
Gibraltar Suffers an Identity Crisis as Brexit Breakup Looms
@theintercept.com 6 years ago
To Unlock Brexit Talks, Britain Must Atone for a Sin of Empire: the Partition of Ireland
@guardian 6 years ago
Only Brexit could inspire this cynical, lost empire vision of Commonwealth https://gu.com/p/8ejnn?CMP=twt_gu
@guardian 6 years ago
Only Brexit could inspire this cynical, lost empire vision of Commonwealth | Peter Beaumont https://trib.al/ukK4jey
@TheNewEuropean 6 years ago
Brexit is the result of an English delusion, a crisis of identity resulting from a failure to come to terms with the loss of empire and the end of its own exceptionalism. https://goo.gl/oxh5v9
@guardian 6 years ago
Empire strikes back: why former colonies don't need Britain after Brexit | Griffith Review https://trib.al/y0BCx4p
@guardian 6 years ago
Britain’s sad circular journey: from empire to Efta to Brussels to Brexit https://trib.al/REVObhx
@TheNewEuropean 7 years ago
Brexit is the result of an English delusion, resulting from a failure to come to terms with the loss of empire >>… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/850351236083830784
@guardian 7 years ago
Building Brexit on the myth of empire ignores our brutal history | Kehinde Andrews http://trib.al/cEayoO1