Category Archives: UK

Bill Black: Tom Friedman Just Noticed that the UK “Has Gone Mad”

Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.

Plastic Watch: 2.5 Trillion Dollar Annual Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution

New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.

Brexit: Shambles

More Brexit faffing about when that’s the last thing the UK can afford.

Brexit: Pandemonium

Is May’s latest Brexit gambit a roll of the dice or meant to be a road to nowhere?

Brexit Brief

Another day of Brexit confusion.

A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at Its Heart

Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?

The Brexit Bar

Another important day for Brexit, when there is way too much to be decided with the stakes so high

Brexit: Mayday

More Brexit stumlbing about as the EU sounds alarms.

Brexit: Chaos Continues as Parliament Votes Down All Brexit Options, Press Focuses on May Rather than April

The Brexit noise to signal ratio continues to be very high.

To Brexit or Not to Brexit

Yet more Brexit to-ing and fro-ing.

Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain

In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.

Waiting for Brexit

A look at the EU’s Brexit extension deal.

Brexit: Opening the Seals

Brexit gets even more crazed, if such a thing were possible.

Brexit: End of the Road

The UK has run out of time for Brexit machinations, even if that isn’t well recognized yet.

Another Theresa May Faceplant as the Brexit Clock Ticks: Speaker Bercow Nixes Another Meaningful Vote in Current Session [Updated]

Brexit demonstrates the saying, “Things look the darkest before they go completely black.”