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 · 31 December 2021 English
I decided to take a couple of weeks off blogging in anticipation of a quiet period for Brexit news over Christmas. It wasn’t the most astute of predictions given David …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 December 2021 English
The evidence that Brexit is causing mounting damage has been growing since the transition period ended, and has been catalogued in almost every post on this blog since then. It …
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 · 26 November 2021 English
There’s a palpable sense that Boris Johnson’s reputation has reached an inflexion point. For years it seemed as if however dishonest and incompetent he was he could do nothing wrong …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 November 2021 English
Brexit is in limbo, with talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) continuing. The situation is febrile, with Boris Johnson repeating the UK’s threat to invoke Article 16 and Maros …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 November 2021 English
The ongoing Brexit process is in one of its periodic ‘quiet before the storm’ moments, with the storm threatening at times to be a hurricane and at others just some …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 November 2021 English
It’s probably fair to say that Owen Paterson was not a household name until the events that led to his resignation last week. However, he played a significant role in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 November 2021 English
It’s been a horrible week for Brexit news, and a depressing one for any hope that UK-EU relations will settle into harmony or, at least, pragmatic cooperation. Careful readers of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 October 2021 English
Over the last few years, one of the most acute commentators on Brexit has been Jonathan Lis, and in a recent article he concludes that the three fundamental consequences of …
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 · 8 October 2021 English
For years many Brexiters – and some remainers for that matter – have been saying that the vote to leave was little or nothing to do with economics, but all …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 October 2021 English
As the Brexit-related national crisis discussed in my previous post continues, including ongoing petrol shortages at garages, Brexiters are undecided as to what to make of it. Their boilerplate argument …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 September 2021 English
It’s impossible to escape the fact that Britain is now caught in an escalating crisis. It has multiple moving parts which interact in complex ways, but each of them is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 September 2021 English
There’s something like an emerging consensus that the Afghanistan crisis has also created a crisis for Britain’s post-Brexit geo-political strategy and, in particular, shows both the emptiness of the ‘Global …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 September 2021 English
It’s now exactly five years since I started this blog and, as it enters its sixth year, with a pleasing symmetry, it will today have its six millionth visit. I …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 August 2021 English
In recent posts I’ve been using the analogy of a slow puncture for the damage caused by Brexit with the political consequences being muffled as a result. An excellent piece …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 August 2021 English
In my previous post I wrote about the effects of Brexit as being a slow puncture gradually degrading the economy and well-being more generally. I mentioned that one aspect of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 August 2021
At the corner of my road is a display board for local notices and, recently, the council have put one up about a project to support local businesses and community …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 July 2021 English
In the years before the Referendum – long before this blog started, so I haven’t kept links – I quite often came across pro-leave people explaining, usually in rather lofty …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 July 2021 English
For over a year now the Johnson government’s response to Covid and its handling of Brexit have not just occurred in parallel but have exhibited numerous parallels. This week’s ‘freedom …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 July 2021 English
The big story of the week is football. Given the volume of comment there has been, it’s difficult to say anything which is interesting or original but, as mentioned in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 July 2021 English
As predicted in recent posts, including last week’s, there is no sign that the government’s confrontational approach to the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) is going to change. Neither the Biden …
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 · 25 June 2021 English
Five years have now passed since the Referendum, so for once I’m not going to provide the usual analysis of the week’s developments (perhaps the most important being that it …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 June 2021 English
In my previous post, I argued that I did not think that Joe Biden’s intervention, for all that it was reported to be diplomatically forceful, would make much difference to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2021 English
As pre-figured in my previous post, UK-EU relations are now entering a crunch period which started with Wednesday’s meeting of both the Partnership Council and the Joint Committee (the former …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 June 2021 English
The entire Brexit process has been depressingly repetitious in all kinds of ways, none more so than the endless complaints over the last five years that the EU is ‘bullying’ …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 May 2021 English
Readers who subscribe by email may have noticed that in recent weeks I have been flagging up that the existing Feedburner email alert service is coming to an end in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 May 2021 English
It has been a pretty standard week for directly Brexit-related news – I put it that way because in many ways almost everything the government does, from demanding that the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 May 2021 English
With apologies to those who have a fastidious objection to cliché, the sound of Brexit chickens coming home to roost and Brexit pennies dropping is now all but deafening. Thus …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 May 2021 English
To anyone who has followed, even cursorily, reports about the effects of Brexit since the vote to leave, and especially since the end of the transition period, or even just …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2021 English
There’s a huge amount of comment about the election results, much of it relating in one way or another to Brexit, especially as regards Labour’s defeat in the Hartlepool by-election. …
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 · 30 April 2021 English
It’s common to talk of the costs of Brexit in terms of its economic effects or its social divisiveness, its consequences for Northern Ireland or its disruption of the lives …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 April 2021 English
We’re probably long past the closing date for nominations for the prize for the most absurd and mendacious comment about Brexit, including the category reserved for those made by Boris …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 April 2021 English
We have now passed the 100-day point since ‘economic Brexit’ – the end of the transition - and to mark it Yorkshire Bylines put together an excellent series of briefings …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 April 2021 English
The loud disputes between the UK and the EU of just a few weeks ago over the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) have quietened and there has still been no public …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 April 2021 English
The ‘big picture’ of the economic consequences of Brexit continues to get filled out, as discussed in an excellent panel event hosted by the UK in a Changing Europe think …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 March 2021 English
This will be a slightly shorter post than usual. That’s partly because this week I’ve been working on the proofs of my forthcoming book, Brexit Unfolded. How no one got …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 March 2021
It has been a complicated week for Brexit news. If there is a unifying thread that runs through it, it is of the consequences not just of Brexit but of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 March 2021 English
This post will be slightly different to the normal round up and discussion of the week’s Brexit events. Instead, it will provide a detailed analysis of an article written by …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 March 2021 English
We’re now a couple of months into actual Brexit, in the sense of the end of the transition period, although still only in the first phase of complete implementation of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 February 2021 English
It was always going to be the case that post-Brexit the UK and the EU would be in ongoing negotiations, for which the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) would be …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 February 2021 English
Over the last five years there have been innumerable types of Brexit identified – including soft, hard, clean, true, no-deal, smooth, dirty, kamikaze; innumerable different models – including Norway, Canada, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 February 2021
The electronic ink had hardly dried on my previous post which finished with a reminder that unexpected events are always liable to arise than just such an event occurred. During …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 January 2021 English
The stories of Brexit disruption catalogued in my last few posts continue apace, not least because firms which had built up stockpiles in anticipation of the end of the transition …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 January 2021 English
Another week and more stories of the disruption that Brexit is bringing to UK-EU trade in addition those in my recent posts. Fishing continues to be the most high-profile example …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 January 2021 English
Having initially spoken of there being some bumps in the road, Michael Gove last weekend told businesses to prepare for “significant disruption” as a result of Brexit. He was right …
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 …