Comment: Leavers confuse fear and risk

The various Leave campaigns are beginning to sound like a broken record. Every time the Remain campaign makes a valid point or argument, their simplistic standard media rebuttal is the Remain campaign is ‘scaremongering’ or engaging in “Project Fear’. The Remain campaign, various city institutions, independent commentators and today the Cabinet Office have all produced well […]

Comment: If we vote leave, we lose control

Vote Leave supporters sing from a well worn song sheet. Yet beyond repeating the easily memorable chorus, there is little understanding of the underlying complex issues. Leavers frequently allege we do not control our own borders. This is rather strange as those returning to the UK from the EU may recall that when entering the UK we are greeted by the big signs […]

Analysis: December European Council Summit

Thursday saw the beginning of the December European Council Summit – the most important council of the Union, which sees of European leaders the likes of Council President Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President François Hollande, and British Prime Minister David Cameron among a series of other notables seated at its dinner table. […]