The Globalist

Today’s problems call for less binary and more systems thinking

Boris Johnson faces new challenges to British sovereignty, as global power shifts, tiny yet relevant, have returned in the aftermath of Brexit.

The UK needs to realize that cutting trade links with the continent has always been dumb — whether for Napoleon in December 1807 or Johnson in December 2020.

An exhausted British Prime Minister simply can’t fight on two fronts.

The long march of the 1968 generation through politics is coming to its end. Biden is the big exception. He will be 1968er’s last hurrah.

The Brexit virus refuses to cross the Channel.

The ways in which the EU can put pressure on a UK that is going rogue are very limited — and potentially vast at the same time.

Boris Johnson’s latest Brexit moves give the Scottish independence movement a fresh impulse.

In its negotiations with the EU, the UK government still puts false hopes on “heavenly” intervention by Germany’s Angela Merkel.

A political decision principally made by the prime minister alone will determine what sort of exit from the EU we start 2021 with.