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It’s taken Uber four months to perhaps cinch a deal with SoftBank, while the spectacularly loss-making company is no closer to making money.
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More Signs Brexit Negotiations Coming Apart
More less than encouraging news on the Brexit front.
Read more...Why You’ve Never Heard of a Charter as Important as the Magna Carta
How the Charter of the Forest set forth the idea of the commons and managed to survive for over 750 years despite being under attack.
Read more...Falling Pound Might Not Bring UK Trade Balance Boost
More confirmation that a cheaper pound won’t help the UK’s trade balance.
Read more...EU Borders: Walking Backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The UK still has no realistic answer to the problem that the Northern Ireland border poses to Brexit.
Read more...UK Leaders Starting to Crack as Brexit Realities Finally Sink In
Brexit bravaura is scarce in evidence in Whitehall.
Read more...Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
Read more...May Rebuffed in Personal Brexit Lobbying in Brussels, Yet Much of UK Press Spins Otherwise
The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...May to Plead With Merkel as Brexit Deadlocks Domestically Too; New Data Shows UK Lacks Foreign Reserves, Meaning Even More Vulnerable to Brexit
New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...Brexit Stalls: Talks Deadlocked, Repeal Bill Postponed; Beginning of the End of No Deal Denialism?
No Brexit deal looks like the most likely outcome, as the UK side is only starting to look at how disastrous that would be.
Read more...Michel Barnier Pushing EU to Discuss Trade Relations with UK; Germany and France Opposed
A seemingly positive bit of news on the Brexit front means a lot less than the latest round of UK reporting would have you believe.
Read more...Theresa May Tries to Pass Off Handwaves as Meaningful Planning in Case of Disorderly Brexit
The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Read more...Brexit Becomes More Unhinged as Tory Cage Match Intensifies While May Tries (Again) to Blame EU
The latest Brexit snow job reflects the fact that the Tories are a dead party walking.
Read more...EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
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