Brexit & Beyond
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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 · 15 September 2023 English
This recurring word in most commentary on this summer’s Brexit events is ‘pragmatism’. It refers to the range of ways, some quieter than others, in which the government is trying …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 August 2023 English
I said that I would break the ‘summer recess’ of this blog if a Brexit event of sufficient interest or importance occurred and it has, with the government’s announcement today …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 January 2023 English
This week David Lammy, the Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary, gave a major and important speech at Chatham House. It wasn’t by any means all about Brexit, but, even where it …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 June 2022 English
From time to time I lose motivation to write this blog or even to continue following Brexit developments. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of other things to write …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 February 2022 English
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive” Sir Walter ScottIn an article this week the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik neatly skewered the present political …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 December 2021
This week saw the publication of an update of one of the major studies of the impact of Brexit on UK trade, conducted by John Springford of the Centre for …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 October 2021 English
When I was at school – it must have been about the time that Jim Callaghan was (not) saying “Crisis? What crisis?” – I once received a damning report on …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 October 2021 English
As has been expected for some months, the autumn crisis over the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) began in earnest this week. Its outcome is difficult to predict, but has the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 July 2021 English
David Frost presumably speaks for the whole government in his claim that Britain is “now looking forward”. It can only be presumed, since virtually no other government minister, including the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2021 English
One way of telling the story of Brexit is that it was sold to the British public as, and perhaps believed by its advocates to be, a project to regain …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 January 2021 English
As trailed in the previous post, this blog is now retitled ‘Brexit & Beyond’ to reflect that we are now in a significantly new stage of the Brexit process, with …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 December 2020 English
So yet another supposedly final deadline has come and gone, and the ludicrous ‘will they, won’t they’ theatre of the last few months continues. Ludicrous, but debilitating, too, in a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 September 2020 English
The relatively quiet summer has ended with a bang, and Brexit has now pushed Britain into a dark and dangerous place. The developments this week have been extremely complex, so …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 September 2020 English
There’s a distinct ‘back to school’ feeling in the air – and never has the beginning of the school year been the news story that it is in these Covid …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2020 English
The ‘Let’s Get Going’ government information campaign, which was just starting when I wrote last week’s post, is now all but unavoidable. This is the ‘shock and awe’ approach which …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 July 2020 English
This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign. Although there have …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 July 2020
As the talks between the UK and the EU limp on – this week, again, they finished early with little sign of progress - and coronavirus and its consequences continue …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 June 2020 English
The much-hyped meeting between Boris Johnson, Ursula von der Leyen, David Sassoli and Charles Michel did not, apparently, see Johnson “banging the table” or even “warning” the EU that Britain …
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 …
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 …