Insurgencies often end up betraying the ideals that motivated them. Brexit seems no different. In no time, it has shed its intellectually most powerful motive: the full restoration of sovereignty to the House of Commons. Parliament’s sovereignty over the future of UK-EU arrangements has been dealt three blows since the Brexit referendum. First, Prime Minister […]
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Bringing down divisions – DiEM25 Belfast event tonight 24 FEB 2017
Tonight’s event will be streamed live from 21.00 Central European Time. Click below:
Brexit – an unorthodox perspective | Guardian Live event
27th January 2017 Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a context informed by a […]
Trump, Turkey & Labour’s Brexit policy – Press review, BBC1, 29 January 2017
Press review on the Andrew Marr show, BBC1 tv 29th January 2017
The West needs a New Deal – BBC2 Newsnight
This video, prepared by and for BBC Newsnight, foreshadows DiEM25’s European New Deal – which will be made available in full during February. The script follows:
Congratulations Benoit Hamon!
On 9th January 2017 I had the pleasure of linking up with Benoit Hamon in Paris, to discuss with him DiEM25’s Progressive Agenda for Europe and, in particular, our policy of constructive disobedience. See below for a report of that meeting. It is with great pleasure that I heard the news that Benoit has […]