Brexit: May at Her Marks to Run a Gauntlet. Update: Cabinet Approves Draft Agreement
Brexit spectacle is about to kick into a higher gear.
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Brexit: A State Change Nigh? Updated: UK and EU Said to Reach Agreement; Key MPs Denounce It
If May does not get her vaunted Brexit breakthrough this Wednesday, the UK will have to start passing “no deal” emergency legislation and laying out funds for preparation. Expect the dial to go to 11 if that happens.
Read more...Brexit Dithering and a Labour Push for Revocation?
More Brexit motion, but progress is likely a very different matter.
Read more...How UK (and US) Surveillance Creates Havoc for Personal Data Movement Post Brexit
The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
Read more...From Brothels to Independence: The Neoliberalization of (Sex) Work
Sex workers in the UK are by now just another part of the online, freelance, customer-reviewed digital economy. They story of how they got there exposes a dangerous shift.
Read more...Northern Ireland Constitutional Settlement: A Brexit Booby Trap?
Why Northern Ireland poses even bigger hurdles to reaching a Brexit deal than you thought.
Read more...Brexit: Even More Noise in the Signal
Rumors of Brexit progress seem to be greatly exaggerated.
Read more...Brexit Stress Rises: Pound Weakens on S&P Crashout Warning, Norway Nixes “Norway,” Migrant Status at Risk
Brexit news still looks decidedly uncheery.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Fisking the NAO’s Report on the UK’s Border Preparedness for Brexit
Yet another hard/crashout Brexit train wreck: implementing adequate border controls.
Read more...Brexit: Knives Out for Theresa May (Again) Over Extending Transition Period
The lay of the Brexit land is becoming clearer after the inconclusive October European Council summit.
Read more...Brexit: Fatal Complacency?
EU leaders have apparently decided that dealing with Brexit isn’t a pressing matter. That’s not a good move.
Read more...Brexit: Things Are Always Darkest Before They Go Completely Black
Don’t kid yourself that the current relative calm on the Brexit front is a good thing.
Read more...Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain
Bad Brexit news just got worse.
Read more...Brexit Chaos
It’s getting harder to figure out what exactly is happening on the Brexit front, but even through the fog of negotiations, things don’t seem to be getting any better.
Read more...Brexit Derivatives Risk: Did the City Overplay Its £38 Trillion Hand?
Novating UK derivatives contracts entered into by EU clearinghouse members is a ginormous mess, particularly in a Brexit crashout. But how serious a mess?
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