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Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was previously a Professor at Cambridge University and Warwick University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). He originally studied Economics and Politics at Manchester University, where he also gained a PhD on the regulation of financial services. "Best guy to follow on Brexit for intelligent analysis" Annette Dittert, ARD German TV. "Consistently outstanding analysis of Brexit" Jonathan Dimbleby. "The best writer on Brexit" Chris Lockwood, Europe Editor, The Economist. "A must-read for anyone following Brexit" David Allen Green, FT. "The doyen of Brexit commentators" Chris Johns, Irish Times. @ChrisGrey@mastodon.online & Twitter @chrisgreybrexit
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 May 2019 English
As anticipated in my post a month ago, Britain is well on course to squander the extension period, primarily by virtue of the Tory leadership contest. That will take us …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2019 English
A strange air of unreality pervades Brexit Britain. Like one of the pea-soupers for which, along with pragmatism, we were once known abroad, the country is currently cloaked in a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 June 2019 English
One notable feature of the current Brexit debate is the extent to which no-deal Brexit – pungently described by Martin Wolf this week as “a lunacy wrapped up in a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 June 2019 English
It is now three years since the UK embarked on its extraordinary act of self-immolation. We have already seen the early consequences in terms of lost economic growth, business damage, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 June 2019 English
In my previous post I made reference to the recent upsurge of Brexiter interest in GATT Article XXIV. As noted there, it was mentioned as a way of avoiding the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 July 2019 English
We are in the doldrums, Brexit-wise, as the dismal Tory leadership election proceeds. In the contest between those we might, since it’s Wimbledon fortnight, call the Buster Mottram and Tim …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 July 2019 English
The leak of Sir Kim Darroch’s assessment of Trump and his administration and his resignation in its aftermath dramatically underline some of the key features and dangers of Brexit. These …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 July 2019 English
Early next week we will know who the new Prime Minister is going to be, with the clear expectation that it will be Boris Johnson. There have been many attempts …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 July 2019 English
This has been an extraordinary, and extraordinarily busy, week for Brexit news. Acres have already been written about what might happen now, my own contribution being a comment piece in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 August 2019 English
We are beginning to learn what government by cult looks like, with every ministerial pronouncement about Brexit now indistinguishable from the rabid outpourings of the legions of pseudonymous Brexiter social …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 August 2019 English
Considering the fact that August is usually a quiet month for politics, there’s still plenty going on and although it’s normally considered ‘silly season’ much of it has deadly serious …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 August 2019 English
The events surrounding Brexit are now whirling out of control, and taking Britain to an unknown, but certainly dangerous, destination. It’s worth briefly summarising how shocking the current situation is. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 September 2019 English
British politics is now in total disarray and daily, almost hourly, descending into ever-deeper chaos. Amid all the prediction of the economic damage that the Brexit vote would cause – …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 September 2019 English
At various times over the last three years I, like some other commentators on Brexit, have used the terms ‘Jacobin’ and ‘McCarthyite’ to describe some pronounced tendencies of one extreme …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 September 2019 English
This week Brexit, like parliament, seems to have been in a state of suspension. That might seem like a welcome lull after the drama of the last couple of weeks. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 September 2019 English
In my previous post I wrote of the political thunder and lightning that we were about to experience, and this week we have had the beginnings of that storm. There …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 October 2019 English
Amidst the latest complex and fast-moving events of the Brexit crisis, there is an underlying theme in this week’s developments. Many of the lies, fantasies and misleading claims that have …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 October 2019 English
Like most people I was taken by surprise when yesterday’s meeting between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar ended with a positive-sounding line about being able to “see a pathway to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 October 2019 English
Apart from grotesque pointlessness of the Queen’s Speech and the understandable, but also pointless, proliferation of predictions and counter-predictions about the Brexit negotiations, the guiding theme of this week has …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 October 2019 English
The latest parliamentary dramas can seem perplexingly arcane or, alternatively, as the ‘Super Saturday’ terminology suggests, like some kind of sports tournament. The latter trivialises that the future of country …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 October 2019 English
I had half-expected that today I would be writing that, to all intents and purposes, Brexit was now a fait accompli and that if not on 31 October then very …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 October 2019 English
Since my previous post, the ‘do or die’ deadline of 31 October has been abandoned without any doing or dying, or any national ‘explosion’, in prospect. The EU have granted …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 November 2019 English
As prefigured in my previous post, this election campaign looks set to avoid any serious discussion of Brexit. That is actually quite extraordinary. We have a country whose politics and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 November 2019 English
As strongly foreshadowed in last week’s post, Nigel Farage did indeed retreat on his threatto stand a Brexit Party (BXP) candidate in every seat unless Boris Johnson shifted to a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 November 2019 English
As regards Brexit, at least, this week’s televised Leaders’ Debatelived up to its billing in every respect apart from the lack of any meaningful debate and the total absence of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 November 2019 English
Whilst the outcome of the election remains unpredictable, there is a clear dividing line between the scenario in which there is a Tory majority and all other scenarios. If there …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 December 2019 English
As the election campaign enters its final days my warning at the outset that, despite this being an election defined by Brexit, there would be no substantive discussion of Brexit …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 December 2019 English
Today is a bitter moment for those of us who think that Brexit is an unmitigated disaster. Even if it were not for Brexit, the prospect of a country run …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 December 2019 English
In my previous post, the morning after the election, I discussed what the result is likely to mean for what follows with Brexit. Even in the short time since then …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 December 2019 English
The first week of Johnson’s new administration has seen both speculation about, and the beginning of some answers to, how he intends to undertake Brexit. The outrageousness of that situation …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 January 2020 English
It’s difficult to know whether to regard Boris Johnson’s reported ban on Ministers and officials using the word Brexit after 31 January as sinister or silly – or perhaps both. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 January 2020 English
It’s widely remarked upon that ‘take back control’ was a brilliant campaign slogan, not least because it could be taken to mean whatever people wanted it to mean. But as …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 January 2020 English
A report from Bloomberg Economics this week estimates the cost of Brexit since the Referendum result to be £130 billion, with a further £70 billion predicted by the scheduled end …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 January 2020 English
Hardly had the electronic ink dried on my previous post, which included some discussion of the government’s approach to the business effects of Brexit, than Sajid Javid gave a clear …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 January 2020 English
So today it will happen. For some, it will be a day of joy and triumph and celebration. Yet, though those celebrations will be occurring, it seems likely that they …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 February 2020 English
Brexit day has come and gone. But as has been widely remarked, though apparently not universally understood, nothing really changes in the Transition Period, so there is no radical rupture …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 February 2020 English
We’re in a strange kind of limbo period in which the UK has left the EU, and the Transition Period has started, and yet the crucial talks about future terms …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 February 2020 English
During the Cold War, the Stasi perfected techniques of psychological warfare known as Zersetzung, sometimes translated as ‘disintegration’. Targeted at individuals and dissident groups, it involved “a systematic degradation of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 February 2020 English
In the very first post on this blog, in September 2016, I noted that the complexity of delivering Brexit and the lack of realism of Brexiters meant that in the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 March 2020 English
With Britain having left the EU, this week saw the beginning of the negotiations about the future terms of UK-EU trade and other relationships. That anodyne sentence ought to anger …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 March 2020 English
Despite news coverage being inevitably swamped by the coronavirus pandemic Brexit is still ongoing and indeed there are several points of comparison or connection between the two. For Britain, unlike …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 March 2020 English
As foreshadowed in my post two weeks ago and amplified in last week’s post (most of which remains relevant, although last week feels almost a lifetime ago) the key, pressing …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 March 2020 English
Unsurprisingly, there is little Brexit news since – rightly – most attention is elsewhere. Yet, as argued in my previous post, for as long as it remains ongoing it remains …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 April 2020 English
There’s always been something delusional in how Brexiters talk about negotiations with the EU. It started with Vote Leave’s lie that these would be completed before starting the legal process …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 April 2020 English
The delusion that the Brexit negotiations are ongoing, as discussed in my previous post, continues and in doing so becomes ever more surreal. Last Friday, spokespeople for both the UK …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 April 2020 English
Once again, there’s not a great deal to say. But, once again, for as long as there is no change to the Brexit timetable it is worth looking at what …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 April 2020 English
It is now increasingly clear that there is a complex web of interconnections between Brexit and responses to the coronavirus crisis. I have been writing about that on this blog …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 May 2020 English
This week’s Brexit news, such as it is, continues to circle around arguments for and against extending the transition period. The government’s substantive arguments against doing so – state aid …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2020 English
There’s relatively little happening as regards Brexit developments this week (although the increasing row over the Northern Ireland Protocol is important), and little new to say about such developments as …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 May 2020 English
This week saw the third round (by videoconference) of the increasingly surreal post-Brexit negotiations, which rumble on as the one supposedly immutable thing in a world otherwise transformed by the …