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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 · 30 December 2020 English
The protracted drama of whether or not there would be a Brexit future terms deal finally ended on Christmas Eve, and today it has been overwhelmingly approved by MPs. Perhaps, …
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 · 9 December 2020 English
There are several important developments in progress this week, and I’ll write about them in my next post (depending on how events pan out, that may come hours or even …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 December 2020 English
It’s now less than a month, and less than 20 working days, until a massive change in the way that the UK trades with and relates to its own continent, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 November 2020 English
The Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno articulated a series of paradoxes, one of the most famous being the ‘dichotomy’ or ‘race course’ paradox. In order to reach a destination, a runner …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 November 2020 English
I am not sure which cliché to apply to the current Brexit situation. Nail biting? Like having teeth pulled? Like watching paint dry? Perhaps it is some grotesque combination of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 November 2020 English
With Joe Biden’s victory now assured, millions of words have now been written – in the UK, if nowhere else – as to what it means for the US-UK relationship …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 November 2020 English
The absence in the last week or so of the sound and fury that has accompanied the Brexit future terms negotiations since the end of the summer holidays might betoken …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 October 2020 English
The last ten days were supposed to be my break from Brexit hence, as trailed two weeks ago, there was no post on this blog last Friday. But escaping did …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2020 English
A month ago Boris Johnson set a deadline of 15 October for a trade deal with the EU to be done. That date has passed, no deal has as yet …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 October 2020 English
This will be the shortest post on this blog for some time, since little of note has happened in the last week. The Brexit negotiations continue, albeit in an unofficial …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 October 2020 English
As this supposedly final week of Brexit trade talks ends, the ‘will they, won’t they?’ show continues to play out like an amateur production of an absurdist play or, perhaps …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 September 2020 English
By recent standards it has been a relatively quiet Brexit week, although also a revealing one in which several chickens have come home to roost as the end of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 September 2020 English
The Internal Market Bill (IMB) and its repercussions have been the predominant theme of this week’s developments. Almost as soon as I wrote my previous post, Brexiter MPs started justifying …
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 · 28 August 2020 English
No one knows if there is going to be a UK-EU trade and other future terms deal, and nothing has happened this week to make that clearer. The last two …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 August 2020
Despite another round of negotiations having been held it has been a relatively quiet Brexit week. The main noise emerging from the talks has been about UK fury at the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 August 2020 English
This week’s headlines about migrants seeking to cross the channel served as a reminder – not that it should ever be forgotten, still less forgiven – of the way that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2020 English
Almost since the day of the Referendum, the Brexit process has gone round in circles with the same issues resurfacing, and the same contradictions and paradoxes recurring. That continues to …