by Andy Dodd | Nov 2, 2017 | Brexit, On My Mind, Politics
It was a generation ago that the forces leading us to Brexit were unbound in a devil’s pact that has trapped and consumed every Conservative party leader since: Major, Hague, Duncan Smith, Howard and Cameron. A quarter of a century on, the ideas put forward by John...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 1, 2017 | Extemplo
The press secretary was asked about Trump’s calling the US justice system a “laughingstock.” “He was voicing his frustration with the lengthy process that often comes with a case like this,” Huckabee Sanders says. That’s annoying thing about the rule of law and...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 1, 2017 | On My Mind, Politics
It feels as if the great European Repeal Bill, the practical mechanism of Brexit, is being escorted past Parliament and public opinion in the same way that a kidnapper might try to corral their victim out of a building with a gun to their back. Everything is being...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 29, 2017 | On My Mind, Politics
It’s late October and in Barcelona it feels as if the days are impatient to leave the summer behind. Short-sleeved evenings are a fading memory as the chaotic and febrile atmosphere of the constitutional crisis in Spain casts a deepening shadow upon daily life. The...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 29, 2017 | Extemplo
It’s sad to see attitudes and opinions in Catalunya becoming as polarised as they’ve been in the United Kingdom since the EU Referendum. In reality, these differences have existed for a long time but recent events have brought them out onto the streets. And now...
