Tag: Brexit

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The Cliff Edge Nobody Was Warned About

When the Brexit withdrawal agreement set up a residence scheme for British nationals already living across the EU, the design assumed a baseline of fairness: reasonable deadlines, flexibility for people who missed them, and proportionality when weighing an individual’s circumstances against procedural failure. Four years on, the country where that […]

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The Decline Of The UK Economy (II)

Part I It is no secret that the UK is currently under extreme socio-economic pressure. Three consecutive economic shocks – Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the conflict in Ukraine – have left the UK burdened with additional debt. Net debt as a percentage of GDP has surged from 36.3% in […]

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Funeral Atmospherics At The British Library

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack.  Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and staff from the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) database, was pinched or otherwise exfiltrated by the Rhysida ransomware group, […]