Tag: Sovereignty

• The Same Game

  

  You’d have to have a heart of stone not laugh at the current Brussels pantomime, and we’re not yet even in the run-up to Christmas. The anglosphere has converged to squeeze France out of a $90bn submarine contract, and French indignation is, well, ripe. Strangely, there seems to be no sign of smug Europhiles gleefully…

  Max Frances

  Sep 17, 2021

  Politics, Social Media, Society

  Australia, Belgium, Brexit, Brussels, EU, France, Hypocrisy, Michel Barnier, Migrant Crisis, Migration, Negotiations, Politics, Sovereignty, Twitter, US, Verhofstadt, Withdrawal Agreement

• Sovereign Notions

  

  Frustrated by the circular arguments of the Brexit debate? Get a rum old sovereignty chaser down your neck for some unrestricted 2020 retrovision and a banging trade deal hangover cure. OK, cure is over-egging it, but it might help with the nausea. While it has been lazily punted about like a scuffed, old, patchy ball,…

  Max Frances

  Jan 1, 2021

  Politics, Society

  Authority, Brexit, Courts, EU, Europe, Government, Ireland, Law, Power, Sovereignty, Tony Blair, Trade Deal, Transition